Kumamoto 2nd district

Kumamoto 2nd district is a current single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Kumamoto and covers Western parts of the prefectural capital Kumamoto (parts of Nishi-ku, shared with the 1st electoral district and parts of Minami-ku, shared with the 4th district), the cities of Arao and Tamana and the Tamana county with its remaining four municipalities, the towns of Nagasu, Nankan, Nagomi and Gyokutō. As of September 2012, 305,563 eligible voters were resident in the district.^[1]

Before 1996, the area had been part of the five-member Kumamoto 1st district. The current incumbent for the 2nd district, Liberal Democrat Takeshi Noda, had represented the pre-reform 1st district since 1972 when he succeeded his deceased father-in-law Takeo Noda.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Takeshi Noda	bgcolor=Template:New Frontier Party/meta/color \|	NFP	1996–2000	Joined LP in the NFP dissolution, CP in the LP split
Takeshi Noda	bgcolor=Template:New Conservative Party (Japan)/meta/color \|	NCP	2000–2003	Did not join the NCP, but returned directly to the LDP; alternating LDP candidacy (Costa Rica method) in the district with Hayashida, re-elected by PR (Kyūshū) in 2003
Takeshi Hayashida	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color \|	LDP	2003–2005	Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2005 and re-elected
Takeshi Noda	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color \|	LDP	2005–2009	Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2009 and re-elected
Ken'ichirō Fukushima	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color \|	DPJ	2009–2012	Joined LF, then TPJ in 2012, failed re-election by PR
Takeshi Noda	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color \|	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroyuki Sonoda	92,873	71.6	−4.3
	JCP	Yumi Hirose	36,769	28.4	+4.3
Turnout			303,272	46.02	−10.44
	LDP hold		Swing

2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Noda	88,744	53.5	former
	Your	Akiko Honda	33,283	20.1	new
	Democratic	Daizō Hamada	25,891	15.6	new
	Tomorrow	Ken'ichirō Fukushima	11,520	6.9	−43.5
	JCP	Kunio Matsuyama	6,358	3.8	new
Turnout				56.46
	LDP gain from Democratic		Swing

2009^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Ken'ichirō Fukushima	104,876	50.4	new
	LDP	Takeshi Hayashida	99,933	48.0	former
	Happiness Realization	Ken'ichi Magōri	3,354	1.6	new
Turnout
	Democratic gain from LDP		Swing

2005^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Noda	112,549	55.8	former
	Democratic	Nobuo Matsuno	79,793	39.6	−2.2
	JCP	Tetsuo Ueno	9,432	4.7	new
Turnout
	LDP hold		Swing

2003^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Hayashida	95,233	52.7	former
	Democratic	Nobuo Matsuno (won PR seat)	75,517	41.8	+13.0
	JCP	Masaharu Maeda	9,829	5.4	new
Turnout
	LDP gain from New Conservative		Swing

2000^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Conservative	Takeshi Noda	106,129	60.4	+10.2
	Democratic	Nobuo Matsuno	50,604	28.8	new
	JCP	Nobuhiro Yamamoto	11,644	6.6	new
	Liberal League	Kayoko Takano	7,375	4.2	new
Turnout
	New Conservative gain from New Frontier		Swing

1996^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Takeshi Noda	97,242.993	50.2	N/A
	LDP	Takeshi Hayashida	79,249.997	40.9	N/A
	JCP	Takehiro Tateishi	8,983.000	4.6	N/A
	New Socialist	Takashi Kurihara	8,393.000	4.3	N/A
Turnout
	New Frontier win (new seat)

Note: The decimals stem from anbunhyō ("proportional fractional votes"), see Elections in Japan#Ballots, voting machines and early voting. As Takeshi (彪) Hayashida and Takeshi (毅) Noda have different Kanji for their given names, some voters must have voted for just "Takeshi" in Kana for the votes to be ambiguous.

References

^ 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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)
^ ２００９総選挙開票結果小選挙区・熊本２区. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.
^ 総選挙2015>開票結果　小選挙区　熊本. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.
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[1] 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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)

[2] ２００９総選挙開票結果小選挙区・熊本２区. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.

[3] 総選挙2015>開票結果　小選挙区　熊本. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.

[4] 総選挙2003>小選挙区　熊本. Mainichi Broadcasting System (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-08-30. Retrieved 2013-06-05.

[5] 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 熊本2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-06-05. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[6] 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 熊本2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-06-05. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

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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
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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
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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