Kanagawa 2nd district

Not to be confused with Kanagawa-ku,_Yokohama or Kagawa 2nd district.

Kanagawa 2nd district (神奈川県第2区, Kanagawa-ken dai-niku or 神奈川2区, Kanagawa niku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture and consists of Yokohama city's Nishi (West), Minami (South) and Kōnan wards. As of December 1, 2020, 435,659 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Kanagawa 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Representatives
A map of the House of Representatives constituencies in Yokohama
Prefecture	Kanagawa
Proportional District	Southern Kanto
Electorate	435,659 (2020)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Liberal Democratic
Representative	Yoshihide Suga
Created from	Kanagawa 1st district (1947–1993) Kanagawa 4th district (1975–1993)
Municipalities	Nishi-ku, Minami-ku and Kōnan-ku in Yokohama

Before the electoral reform of the 1990s, the area had been split between the former four-member 1st district and the former five-member 4th district.

The 2nd district's only representative since the electoral reform has been Liberal Democrat Yoshihide Suga (without factional affiliation), the former Prime Minister of Japan, and a former member of the Yokohama city council who entered the Diet as a newcomer in 1996. He was able to beat Akihiro Ueda (New Frontier Party, ex-Kōmeitō), one of the incumbents for the pre-reform 4th district. In subsequent elections he defended the seat against Democrats Akira Ōide and Kazuya Miura. Suga was Internal Affairs Minister in the First Abe cabinet and Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Second Abe Cabinet.

List of the member representing the district

Yoshihide Suga has represented the constituency since 1996.

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1996	Yoshihide Suga	Liberal Democratic	Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (2006–2007) Chief Cabinet Secretary (2012–2020) President of the Liberal Democratic Party (2020–2021) Prime Minister of Japan (2020–2021) Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party (2024–present)

Election results

1996 • 2000 • 2003 • 2005 • 2009 • 2012 • 2014 • 2017 • 2021 • 2024

1996

General election 1996: Kanagawa's 2nd^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	70,459	32.2
	New Frontier	Akihiro Ueda	65,905	30.2
	Democratic	Akira Ohide	44,184	20.2
	JCP	Chiemi Miwa	30,550	14.0
	New Socialist	Yasuhiko Matsunaga	5,855	2.7
	Liberal League	Tomoki Kanoya	1,555	0.7
Total votes			218,508	100.0
	LDP win (new seat)

2000

General election 2000: Kanagawa's 2nd^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	95,960	42.3
	Democratic	Akira Ohide (elected by PR)	93,434	41.2
	JCP	Miwako Yukawa	37,485	16.5
Total votes			226,879	100.0
	LDP hold

2003

General election 2003: Kanagawa's 2nd^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	115,495	49.8
	Democratic	Akira Ohide (re-elected by PR)	93,406	40.3
	JCP	Miwako Yukawa	22,997	9.9
Total votes			231,898	100.0
	LDP hold

2005

General election 2005: Kanagawa's 2nd^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	160,111	58.4
	Democratic	Akira Ohide	91,723	33.5
	JCP	Miyako Itaya	22,284	8.1
Total votes			274,118	100.0
	LDP hold

2005

General election 2005: Kanagawa's 2nd^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	160,111	58.4
	Democratic	Akira Ohide	91,723	33.5
	JCP	Miyako Itaya	22,284	8.1
Total votes			274,118	100.0
	LDP hold

2009

General election 2009: Kanagawa's 2nd^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	132,270	46.5
	Democratic	Kazuya Mimura (elected by PR)	131,722	46.3
	JCP	Osamu Takayama	20,366	7.1
Total votes			284,358	100.0
	LDP hold

2012

General election 2012: Kanagawa's 2nd^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	138,040	57.9
	Democratic	Kazuya Mimura	71,302	29.9
	JCP	Toshiaki Kodama	28,947	12.1
Total votes			238,289	100.0
	LDP hold

2014

General election 2014: Kanagawa's 2nd^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	147,084	67.7
	JCP	Chiemi Miwa	47,119	21.7
	People's Life	Kōzō Okamoto	23,011	10.6
Total votes			217,214	100.0
	LDP hold

2017

General election 2017: Kanagawa's 2nd^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	123,218	57.1
	CDP	Noe Takahashi	47,191	21.9
	Kibō no Tō	Kumi Hashimoto	28,635	13.3
	JCP	Kiyofumi Ohnuki	16,699	7.7
Total votes			215,743	100.0
	LDP hold

2021

General election 2021: Kanagawa's 2nd^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	146,166	61.1
	CDP	Eiko Okamoto	92,880	38.9
Total votes			239,046	100.0
	LDP hold

2024

2024^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito)	Yoshihide Suga (incumbent)	119,548	52.27	4.84
	CDP	Yanagiya Tozaburo	47,222	20.61	18.24
	Reiwa	Miyoshi Ryo	27,535	12.02	New
	Communist	Namiki Mariko	19,538	8.53	New
	Sanseitō	Kojiro Hiramoto	15,315	6.68	New
Majority			152,326	31.66	9.36
Registered electors			435,540
Turnout			229,158	54.33	1.67
	LDP hold