Kanagawa 2nd district

Kanagawa 2nd district (神奈川県第2区, Kanagawa-ken dai-niku or 神奈川2区, Kanagawa niku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture and consists of Yokohama city's Nishi (West), Minami (South) and Kōnan wards. As of December 1, 2020, 435,659 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Not to be confused with Kanagawa 2nd district or Kagawa 2nd district.
Kanagawa 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of inner Kanagawa single-member districts
PrefectureKanagawa
Proportional DistrictSouthern Kanto
Electorate435,659 (2020)[1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyLiberal Democratic
RepresentativeYoshihide Suga
Created fromKanagawa 1st district (1947–1993)
Kanagawa 4th district (1975–1993)
MunicipalitiesNishi, Minami and Kōnan wards in Yokohama

Before the electoral reform of the 1990s the area had been split between the four-member 1st district and the five-member 4th district.

The 2nd district's only representative since the electoral reform has been Liberal Democrat Yoshihide Suga (without factional affiliation), the current Prime Minister of Japan, and a former member of the Yokohama city council who entered the Diet as a newcomer in 1996. He was able to beat Akihiro Ueda (New Frontier Party, ex-Kōmeitō), one of the incumbents for the pre-reform 4th district. In subsequent elections he defended the seat against Democrats Akira Ōide and Kazuya Miura. Suga was Internal Affairs Minister in the First Abe cabinet and Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Second Abe Cabinet.

List of the member representing the district
Member Party Dates Electoral history Notes

Yoshihide Suga		 Liberal Democratic October 21, 1996 –
present		 Elected in 1996.
Re-elected in 2000.
Re-elected in 2003.
Re-elected in 2005.
Re-elected in 2009.
Re-elected in 2012.
Re-elected in 2014.
Re-elected in 2017.		 Prime Minister of Japan
(2020-present)

Election results

2017 • 2014 • 2012 • 2009 • 2005 • 2003 • 2000 • 1996

2017
2017 Japanese general election[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Yoshihide Suga 123,218 57.1
Constitutional Democratic Noe Takahashi 47,191 21.9
Kibō Kumi Hashimoto 28,635 13.3
Communist Kiyofumi Ohnuki 16,699 7.7
Total votes 215,743 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2014
2014 Japanese general election[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Yoshihide Suga 147,084 67.7
Communist Chiemi Miwa 47,119 21.7
People's Life Kōzō Okamoto 23,011 10.6
Total votes 217,214 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2012
2012 Japanese general election[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Yoshihide Suga 138,040 57.9
Democratic Kazuya Mimura 71,302 29.9
Communist Toshiaki Kodama 28,947 12.1
Total votes 238,289 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2009
2009 Japanese general election[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Yoshihide Suga 132,270 46.5
Democratic Kazuya Mimura (elected by PR) 131,722 46.3
Communist Osamu Takayama 20,366 7.1
Total votes 284,358 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2005
2005 Japanese general election[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Yoshihide Suga 160,111 58.4
Democratic Akira Ohide 91,723 33.5
Communist Miyako Itaya 22,284 8.1
Total votes 274,118 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2003
2003 Japanese general election[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Yoshihide Suga 115,495 49.8
Democratic Akira Ohide
(re-elected by PR)		 93,406 40.3
Communist Miwako Yukawa 22,997 9.9
Total votes 231,898 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2000
2000 Japanese general election[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Yoshihide Suga 95,960 42.3
Democratic Akira Ohide (elected by PR) 93,434 41.2
Communist Miwako Yukawa 37,485 16.5
Total votes 226,879 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

1996

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1996 Japanese general election[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Yoshihide Suga 70,459 32.2
New Frontier Akihiro Ueda 65,905 30.2
Democratic Akira Ohide 44,184 20.2
Communist Chiemi Miwa 30,550 14.0
New Socialist Yasuhiko Matsunaga 5,855 2.7
Liberal League Tomoki Kanoya 1,555 0.7
Total votes 218,508 100.0
Liberal Democratic win (new seat)

References
  1. "選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of registered voters] (in Japanese). Kanagawa Prefecture Election Commission. 2020.
  2. "開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
  3. 2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-24.
  4. "開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
  5. 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川2区 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-24.
  6. 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川2区 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-24.
  7. 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川2区 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-24.
  8. 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川2区 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-24.
  9. 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川2区 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-24.
House of Representatives of Japan
Preceded by
Yamaguchi 4th district		 Constituency represented by the Prime Minister
2020 – present		 Incumbent

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