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, 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 and Taitō. As of 2012, 424,273 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

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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.

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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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kiyoto Tsuji	66,050	37.09	6.35
	DPP	Kiichirō Hatoyama	48,527	27.25	New
	Ishin	Mitsuru Imamura	29,860	16.77	0.07
	JCP	Mari Hosono	22,316	12.53	New
	Sanseitō	Yoshinori Mogami	11,322	6.36	New
Turnout				57.12	3.70

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kiyoto Tsuji	119,281	43.44	2.46
	CDP	Akihiro Matsuo	90,422	32.93	4.13
	Ishin	Takatane Kiuchi	45,754	16.7	New
	Reiwa	Itaru Kitamura	14,487	5.3	new
	Independent	Shinichiro Deguchi	4,659	1.7	New
Turnout			274,603	60.82	2.82
	LDP hold		Swing	-2.46

	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

	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

Tokyo 2nd district

List of representatives

Election results

References

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2009^[7]
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