Kyoto 2nd district

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Kyoto 2nd district

Kyōto 2nd district (京都府第2区 Kyōto-fu dai-ni-ku or simply 京都2区 Kyōto niku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in central Kyoto and consists of the Kyoto city wards of Sakyō, Higashiyama and Yamashina. As of 2012, 267,926 eligible voters were registered in the district.[2]

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Kyoto 2nd District
京都府第2区
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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PrefectureKyoto
Proportional DistrictKinki
Electorate263,524 (as of September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyIshin
RepresentativeSeiji Maehara
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Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area formed part of Kyoto 1st district where five representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote (SNTV).

Kyoto had been a traditional stronghold of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), but following the electoral reform that replaced the SNTV multi-member districts with FPTP single-member districts, the JCP could only win the new Kyoto 3rd district while losing the other three districts in Kyoto city (Kyoto 1, 2 and 4) in the 1996 general election, the first under the new system. In the 2nd district JCP newcomer Satoshi Inoue lost narrowly to Liberal Democrat Mikio Okuda, who had previously represented the old multi-member 1st district. Democrat Seiji Maehara ranked third, but won a seat via the Kinki PR block. After the main opposition New Frontier Party had dissolved and its successor groups had mainly been absorbed by the Democratic Party, Maehara won Kyoto 2 in the 2000 general election and has held onto the seat since. Maehara went on to become Democratic Party president in 2005, but resigned following the Livedoor scandal in 2006 and later was a minister of state in the Democratic-led Hatoyama and Kan cabinets.

Areas covered

Current district

As of 5 January 2023, the areas covered by this district are as follows:[3]

List of representatives

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Representative Party Dates Notes
Mikio Okuda LDP 1996–2000 Retired from politics in 2000
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Seiji Maehara

DPJ 2000–2016 Incumbent
DP 2016–2017
Ind. 2017
Kibō 2017–2018
DPP 2018–2023
FEFA 2023–2024
Ishin 2024–present
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Election results

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2024[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ishin Seiji Maehara 60,922 45.9
JCP Akiko Horikawa (Won PR seat) 30,697 23.1 Increase6.1
LDP Eiji Sano 29,638 22.3 Decrease6.9
Sanseitō Hiroaki Komatsu 8,270 6.2
Independent Yūsuke Honda 2,450 1.8
Independent Tetsuo Hirota 851 0.6
Registered electors 257,842
Turnout 53.05 Decrease3.09
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2021[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPP Seiji Maehara 72,516 48.89 Increase0.2
LDP Mamoru Shigemoto 43,291 29.19 Decrease0.8
JCP Takuaki Chisaka 25,260 17.03 Decrease4.3
Reiwa Tatsuya Naka 7,263 4.90
Turnout 57.14 Decrease1.21
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2017[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Seiji Maehara 65,480 48.7
LDP Mamoru Shigemoto 40,336 30.0
JCP Takuaki Chisaka 28,600 21.28
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2014[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Seiji Maehara 66,227 50.4
LDP Kōji Uenaka 37,180 28.3
JCP Toshifumi Hara 27,888 21.2
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2012[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJPNP Seiji Maehara 72,170 49.4
LDP Kōji Uenaka 42,017 28.7
JCP Toshifumi Hara 24,633 16.8
SDP Dai Satō 7,416 5.1
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2009[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (PNP support) Seiji Maehara 101,151
LDP Tomohiro Yamamoto 42,771
JCP Toshifumi Hara 25,856
SDP Takakage Fujita 5,028
HRP Yoshiteru Karube 1,045
Turnout 178,905 66.31
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2005[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Seiji Maehara 73,795
LDP Tomohiro Yamamoto (elected by PR) 69,330
JCP Toshifumi Hara 29,348
Turnout 175,879 64.5
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2003[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Seiji Maehara 73,934
LDP Naohiko Yamamoto 47,962
JCP Toshifumi Hara 26,768
Turnout 151,842 55.37
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2000[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Seiji Maehara 52,077
LDP Naohiko Yamamoto 48,057
JCP Satoshi Inoue 41,541
LP Tōru Taniguchi[13] 11,296
LL Masae Toita 2,691
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1996[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Mikio Okuda 43,060
JCP Satoshi Inoue 42,211
DPJ Seiji Maehara (elected by PR) 31,257
NFP Kenji Hishida 30,713
Turnout 150,165 54.75
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