Tokyo 2nd district

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 city of Tokyo. The district consists of the wards of Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō. As of 2012, 424,273 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

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.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Kunio Hatoyama	DPJ	1996 – 1999	Resigned for the Tokyo gubernatorial election, 1999
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

Election results

2012^[3]
Party		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

2009^[4]
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

2005^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takashi Fukaya	127,889
	DPJ	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	98,335
	JCP	Tsukane Nakajima	24,848
Turnout			256,897	68.46

2003^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	104,477
	LDP	Takashi Fukaya	91,926
	JCP	Kiyokazu Muro	21,334
Turnout			223,464	62.14

2000^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	88,744
	LDP	Takashi Fukaya	81,923
	JCP	Kiyokazu Muro	32,155
	Independent	Hiroshi Sakae	5,371
	LL	Kazuhiko Komatsu	3,665

1999 by-election^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Yoshikatsu Nakayama	134,265
	JCP	Tsukane Nakajima	36,261

1996^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Kunio Hatoyama	88,183
	LDP	Takashi Fukaya	68,503
	JCP	Tsukane Nakajima	40,461
Turnout			202,767	61.85

References

↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24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 (Japanese)
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京>民主. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-27.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

Tokyo's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 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 PR Tokyo PR block House of Councillors At-large (25 Representatives (PR block: 19→17), 8→10 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (43 Representatives, 8 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) 1 2 (22 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (31 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (25 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Tokyo city counties (gunbu) (16 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (12 Representatives)

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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