Yamaguchi 2nd district (1928–1942)
Yamaguchi's 2nd district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Imperial Diet of Japan (national legislature). Between 1928 and 1942 it elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote (SNTV). It consisted of Yamaguchi Prefecture's Ōshima, Kuga, Kumage, Tsuno, Saba, and Yoshiki districts.
The district was most notably represented by two wartime ministers: Yōsuke Matsuoka, foreign and colonial minister in the 2nd Konoe cabinet, and Nobusuke Kishi, trade and industry minister in the Tōjō cabinet.
After the 1946 redistricting, all of Yamaguchi formed one limited voting at-large district. In 1947, the area together with six new cities in Yamaguchi (Hōfu, Kudamatsu, Iwakuni, Hikari, Yamaguchi, Tokuyama) formed the new SNTV 2nd district of Yamaguchi. Kishi was reelected there after his release from prison for the Yoshida Liberal Party in 1953, Hatoyama's Japan Democratic Party in 1955 and later the LDP's conservative anti-mainstream where he chaired his own faction.
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- ^ 衆議院>第16回衆議院議員選挙>山口県>山口2区. JANJAN ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ 吉本陽
- ^ 衆議院>第17回衆議院議員選挙>山口県>山口2区. JANJAN ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ 道源権治
- ^ 衆議院>第18回衆議院議員選挙>山口県>山口2区. JANJAN ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-01-22. As there were only five candidates no vote took place.
- ^ 窪井義道
- ^ 衆議院>第19回衆議院議員選挙>山口県>山口2区. JANJAN ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ 国光五郎
- ^ 衆議院>第20回衆議院議員選挙>山口県>山口2区. JANJAN ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ 福田悌夫
- ^ 衆議院>第21回衆議院議員選挙>山口県>山口2区. JANJAN ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-01-22.