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 NFP 1996–2000 Joined LP in the NFP dissolution, CP in the LP split
CP 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 LDP 2003–2005 Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2005 and re-elected
Takeshi Noda LDP 2005–2009 Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2009 and re-elected
Ken'ichirō Fukushima DPJ 2009–2012 Joined LF, then TPJ in 2012, failed re-election by PR
Takeshi Noda LDP 2012– Incumbent

Election results

2012[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
LDP (NK) Takeshi Noda 88,744 53.5 former
YP (JRP) Akiko Honda 33,283 20.1 new
DPJ Daizō Hamada 25,891 15.6 new
TPJ (NPD) Ken'ichirō Fukushima 11,520 6.9 -43.5
JCP Kunio Matsuyama 6,358 3.8 new
2009[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
DPJ Ken'ichirō Fukushima 104,876 50.4 new
LDP Takeshi Hayashida 99,933 48.0 former
HRP Ken'ichi Magōri 3,354 1.6 new
2005[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
LDP Takeshi Noda 112,549 55.8 former
DPJ Nobuo Matsuno 79,793 39.6 -2.2
JCP Tetsuo Ueno 9,432 4.7 new
2003[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
LDP Takeshi Hayashida 95,233 52.7 former
DPJ Nobuo Matsuno (won PR seat) 75,517 41.8 +13.0
JCP Masaharu Maeda 9,829 5.4 new
2000[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
CP Takeshi Noda 106,129 60.4 +10.2
DPJ Nobuo Matsuno 50,604 28.8 new
JCP Nobuhiro Yamamoto 11,644 6.6 new
LL Kayoko Takano 7,375 4.2 new
1996[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
NFP 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
NSP Takashi Kurihara 8,393.000 4.3 N/A

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

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