Shiga 2nd district

Shiga 2nd district (Shiga[-ken dai-]ni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It covers Northeastern Shiga, today namely the cities of Hikone, Nagahama, Maibara, the dissolved towns of Aitō and Kotō in present-day Higashiōmi City and the former counties of Echi and Inukami. The district borders were redrawn in the 2002 redistricting and reapportionment, before that it had reached further to the South and covered Yōkaichi and Ōmihachiman cities and all of Echi, Kanzaki and Gamō counties. As of 2012, 264,168 voters resided in the district.^[1]

Shiga 2nd district was initially won by Masayoshi Takemura of New Party Harbinger (NPH), the former three-term governor of Shiga who had represented the five-member Shiga At-large district before the electoral reform since 1986 and was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the anti-LDP coalition Hosokawa Cabinet and Minister of Finance in the LDP-JSP-NPH Murayama Cabinet. In the 2000 Representatives election, he ran as an independent with Democratic Party support and lost to Liberal Democrat Akira Konishi. Konishi died in 2001, the resulting by-election was won by his younger brother Osamu. But in the general House of Representatives election of 2003, Democrat Issei Tajima narrowly beat Konishi who won a seat in the proportional vote. In the "postal election" of 2005, Tajima defended the seat as Konishi ran as independent postal privatization rebel and the LDP sent "assassin" candidate Yūji Fujii. Fujii won a proportional seat in 2005, but lost it in 2009 as Tajima won the district race by a large margin; in 2010, Fujii was elected mayor of Nagahama City. In the 2012 House of Representatives election, Ken'ichirō Ueno who had represented the 1st district for the Liberal Democrats between 2005 and 2009 moved to the 2nd district and beat Tajima.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Masayoshi Takemura	NPH	1996–2000	Left NPH in 1998
Akira Konishi	LDP	2000–2001	Died in office
Osamu Konishi	LDP	2001–2003
Issei Tajima	DPJ	2003–2012
Ken'ichirō Ueno	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (NK)	Ken'ichirō Ueno	67,182	43.3
	DPJ (PNP)	Issei Tajima	48,924	31.5
	YP (JRP)	Yoshiyuki Yoichi	26,978	17.4
	JCP	Mutsuko Nakagawa	12,084	7.8

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (PNP)	Issei Tajima	109,885	61.0
	LDP (NK)	Yūji Fujii	66,959	37.2
	HRP	Nobutaka Ikeda	3,205	1.8
Turnout			183,270	69.71

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Issei Tajima	67,481	38.5
	LDP	Yūji Fujii (won Kinki PR seat)	54,067	30.8
	Independent	Osamu Konishi	43,416	24.8
	JCP	Kazuyo Maruoka	10,413	5.9
Turnout			177,450	68.36

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Issei Tajima	69,620	44.9
	LDP	Osamu Konishi (won Kinki PR seat)	65,033	41.9
	Independent	Ryūji Kawashima	11,814	7.6
	JCP	Shin'ichi Sakai	8,741	5.6
Turnout			157,333	61.11

October 28, 2001 by-election^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Osamu Konishi	99,572	52.0
	DPJ	Issei Tajima	76,154	39.8
	JCP	Etsuko Narumiya	15,765	8.2

2000^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Akira Konishi	125,625	45.7
	Independent (DPJ)	Masayoshi Takemura	115,322	42.0
	JCP	Akihiko Hiyama	33,660	12.3

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NPH	Masayoshi Takemura	107,053	43.0
	LDP	Akira Konishi	79,136	31.8
	NFP	Tsutomu Matsumura	35,192	14.1
	JCP	Kan Kikuchi	27,595	11.1
Turnout			254,262	62.65

References

↑ Ministry of general affairs: 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　滋賀. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-01.
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↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-04-01.
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Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 seats	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 seats	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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