Kagoshima 2nd district

Kagoshima 2nd district (鹿児島[県第]2区, Kagoshima[-ken dai-]ni-ku) is a single-member electoral district of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. Located in Southern Kagoshima Prefecture it covers parts of the capital Kagoshima City (former municipalities Taniyama City and Kiire Town), Ibusuki City and former Ei Town (now part of Minami-Kyūshū) in the main island part of Kagoshima, and Amami City and Ōshima County on the Amami islands. As of 2013, 279,541 eligible voters were registered in the district, giving it above average vote weight.^[1]

From 2000 to 2014, the district had been represented by the Tokuda family who runs the Tokushūkai hospital group. A political funds scandal in 2013 over donations from Tokushūkai led to the resignations of Tokyo governor Naoki Inose and Takeshi Tokuda.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Shūkō Sonoda	LDP	1996–2000
Torao Tokuda	LL	2000–2005
Takeshi Tokuda	Independent	2005–2009	Joined LDP in 2006
Takeshi Tokuda	LDP	2009–2014	Resigned from the LDP House of Representatives caucus in November 2013, from his seat in February 2014
vacant		2014	Special election scheduled for April 27, 2014

Recent results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (NK)	Takeshi Tokuda	109,744	66.7
	DPJ (PNP)	Akashi Uchikoshi	45,707	27.8
	JCP	Terashi Mishima	9,177	5.6

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Tokuda	114,102	55.7
	DPJ	Akashi Uchikoshi (won PR seat)	88,562	43.2
	HRP	Mifuko Kamimura	1,169	1.1

References

↑ MIC: 平成25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
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　鹿児島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-03-28.
↑ 総選挙2009>開票結果　小選挙区　鹿児島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-03-28.

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 seats	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 seats	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 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 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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