Tokyo 2nd district

Tokyo 2nd District
Tokyo 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of inner Tokyo single-member districts
Prefecture	Tokyo
Proportional District	Tokyo
Electorate	424,273 (2012)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Kiyoto Tsuji
Created from	Tokyo 8th district
Wards	Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō

Tokyo 2nd district (東京都第2区 Tōkyō-to dai-ni-ku or simply 東京2区 Tōkyō ni-ku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in eastern mainland Tokyo and covers central parts of the former Tokyo City. The district consists of the wards of Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō. As of 2012, 424,273 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area formed Tokyo 8th district where two Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote. The current Representative for the 2nd district is Liberal Democrat Kiyoto Tsuji who won in the 2012 Representatives election with less than a third of the vote.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Kunio Hatoyama	DPJ	1996 – 1999	Resigned for the 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election
Yoshikatsu Nakayama	DPJ	1999 – 2005	Failed reelection in the Tokyo PR block^[2]
Takashi Fukaya	LDP	2005 – 2009
Yoshikatsu Nakayama	DPJ	2009 – 2012	Failed re-election in the Tokyo block
Kiyoto Tsuji	LDP	2012 –	Incumbent

Election results

2014^[3]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
LDP (K)	Kiyoto Tsuji	103,954	42.6	+10.2
DPJ	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	58,407	23.9	−0.8
JIP	Toshiaki Ōkuma	44,550	18.3	−0.3
JCP	Noriyuki Ishizawa	32,296	13.2	new
Others	Katsuko Inumaru	4,668	1.9	new

2012^[4]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Kiyoto Tsuji	84,663	32.4
DPJ (PNP)	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	64,676	24.7
YP	Toshiaki Ōkuma (elected by PR)	48,704	18.6
JRP	Kazumi Matsumoto	38,564	14.7
JCP	Fumihiko Kuwana	23,035	8.8
Independent	Masahiro Inoue	2,045	0.8

2009^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ (PNP support)	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	138,603
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Takashi Fukaya	98,593
	JCP	Tsukane Nakajima	26,172
	Independent	Hiroko Tanaka	4,579
	HRP	Bunkō Katō	1,924
	Independent	Jun Chiba	1,748
Turnout			277,779	68.53

2005^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Takashi Fukaya	127,889
	DPJ	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	98,335
	JCP	Tsukane Nakajima	24,848
Turnout			256,897	68.46

2003^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	104,477
	LDP	Takashi Fukaya	91,926
	JCP	Kiyokazu Muro	21,334
Turnout			223,464	62.14

2000^[8]
	Candidate	Votes
DPJ	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	88,744
LDP	Takashi Fukaya	81,923
JCP	Kiyokazu Muro	32,155
Independent	Hiroshi Sakae	5,371
LL	Kazuhiko Komatsu	3,665

1999 by-election^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	134,265
	JCP	Tsukane Nakajima	36,261

1996^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Kunio Hatoyama	88,183
	LDP	Takashi Fukaya	68,503
	JCP	Tsukane Nakajima	40,461
Turnout			202,767	61.85

References

^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 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 (in Japanese)
^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京>民主. ザ･選挙] (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
^ 総選挙2014>開票結果小選挙区東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-10-08.
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-27.
^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
^ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 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 (in Japanese)

[2] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京>民主. ザ･選挙] (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

[3] 総選挙2014>開票結果小選挙区東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-10-08.

[4] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-27.

[5] 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

[6] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

[7] 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

[8] 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

[9] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

[10] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

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v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district 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 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district 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 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 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 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4