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		Dates	Notes
Takeshi Noda	NFP	1996–2000	Joined LP in the NFP dissolution, CP in the LP split
Takeshi Noda	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]
	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]
	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]
	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]
	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]
	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]
	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

↑ 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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　熊本. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.
↑ ２００９総選挙開票結果小選挙区・熊本２区. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.
↑ 総選挙2015>開票結果　小選挙区　熊本. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.
↑ 総選挙2003>小選挙区　熊本. Mainichi Broadcasting System (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.
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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
Hokkaidō proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)
Tōhoku 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
Kitakantō 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
Minami-Kantō 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
Hokurikushin'etsu 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
Tōkai 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 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3
Chūgoku 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)
Kyūshū 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 Ōita 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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