Okinawa 2nd district

Okinawa 2nd District
Okinawa 2nd District
	Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Okinawa Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Okinawa
Proportional District	Kyushu
Electorate	288,070 (2016)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Social Democratic Party
Representative	Kantoku Teruya
Created from	Okinawa's at-large "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Urasoe, Ginowan and Nakagami District

Okinawa 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Okinawa Prefecture and encompasses the cities of Urasoe and Ginowan, and Nakagami District. As of 2016, 288,070 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

The district has been represented by Kantoku Teruya of the Social Democratic Party since 2003. Teruya is the only SDP politician in the country to currently hold a single-seat constituency.

Background

The district has been considered a stronghold for veteran Social Democrat Kantoku Teruya, who has held the district continuously since 2003. Such is the strength of the SDP vote in the district that during the LDP landslides in 2005 and 2012, Teruya still managed to hold the district comfortably. The significant presence of US military bases in Ginowan is regarded as a major factor contributing to the wide aversion of the local population to voting LDP candidates, who are typically pro-base.[2]

Okinawa-2nd is also one of the few districts that the JCP regularly skips from contesting. The party has continuously endorsed Teruya in each election since 2009. Other centre-left parties have also generally refrained from contesting the district and regularly back Teruya in general elections.[3]

List of representatives

Representative		Dates
Seiji Nakamura	NFP	1996
Seiji Nakamura	LDP	1996 – 2003
Kantoku Teruya	SDP	2003 –

Election results

2017[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	Kantoku Teruya	92,143	58.94	3.25
	Liberal Democratic	Masahisa Miyazaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	64,193	41.06	3.25
Majority			27,950	17.88
Turnout				56.06	4.48
	Social Democratic hold		Swing	3.25

2014[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by JCP, PLP, OSMP, the Greens and Shinfūkai)	85,781	62.19	13.18
	Liberal Democratic	Masahisa Miyazaki (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)	52,156	37.81	0.89
Majority			33,625	34.38
Turnout				51.58
	Social Democratic hold		Swing	6.15

2012[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	Kantoku Teruya	73,498	49.01	12.09
	Liberal Democratic	Masahisa Miyazaki (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP)	55,373	36.92	3.45
	Restoration	Toshinori Kinjō (endorsed by YP)	19,551	13.04	N/A
	Independent	Baku Nagai	1,556	1.04	N/A
Majority			18,125	12.09
Turnout
	Social Democratic hold		Swing	7.77

2009[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by OSMP)	101,820	61.10	14.40
	Liberal Democratic	Osamu Ashitomi (endorsed by NKP)	60,773	36.47	2.87
	Happiness Realization	Noboru Tomikawa	4,044	2.43	N/A
Majority			41,047	24.67
	Social Democratic hold		Swing	8.64

2005[8]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Social Democratic	Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by OSMP)	71,861	46.70
Liberal Democratic	Osamu Ashitomi (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP)	60,540	39.34
Independent	Noboru Shimajiri	14,617	9.50
Communist	Morinobu Nishihira	6,875	4.47
Social Democratic hold		Swing

2003
	Candidate	Votes	%
Social Democratic	Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by DPJ and OSMP)	74,123	55.4
Liberal Democratic	Yoshiji Uehara (endorsed by NKP and NCP)	47,759	35.7
Communist	Norio Maemiya	6,560	4.9
Independent	Kunio Kinjō	5,297	4.0
Social Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing

2000
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Seiji Nakamura (endorsed by NKP and NCP)	88,544	49.3
Democratic	Noboru Shimajiri	30,970	17.3
Liberal League	Hiroshi Kinjō (endorsed by SDP)	30,946	17.2
Communist	Tsuneo Nakanishi	29,039	16.2

1996
	Candidate	Votes	%
New Frontier	Seiji Nakamura	66,421	41.3
Okinawa Social Mass	Aichi Nakamoto (endorsed by JCP and NSP)	51,689	32.2
Liberal League	Hiroshi Kinjō	18,696	11.6
Liberal Democratic	Kunio Kinjō	18,142	11.3
New Party Sakigake	Jinichirō Asato (endorsed by DPJ)	5,801	3.6

References

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
"Anti-US base candidates win all seats in Okinawa in Lower House election". Ryukyu Shimpo. 14 December 2014. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
Kyodo News (15 December 2014). "LDP loses heavily in Okinawa". Japan Times. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
小選挙区開票速報：沖縄県（定数4） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
小選挙区：沖縄県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：沖縄県 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
小選挙区開票結果ー沖縄県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー沖縄県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

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[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)

[2] "Anti-US base candidates win all seats in Okinawa in Lower House election". Ryukyu Shimpo. 14 December 2014. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[3] Kyodo News (15 December 2014). "LDP loses heavily in Okinawa". Japan Times. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[4] 小選挙区開票速報：沖縄県（定数4） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[5] 小選挙区：沖縄県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[6] 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：沖縄県 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[7] 小選挙区開票結果ー沖縄県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[8] ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー沖縄県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori-3rd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Hirotaka Akamatsu, Aichi-5th
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)
Tōhoku (13 block seats, 23 district 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
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 32 district 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- (South) Kantō (22 block seats, 33 district 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 (17 block seats, 25 district 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
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (11 block seats, 19 district 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 (21 block seats, 32 district 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 (28 block seats, 47 district 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) Wakayama 1 2 3
Chūgoku (11 block seats, 20 district 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 (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district 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 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 (5) Okinawa 1 2 3 4
(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002, 2013 and 2017 reapportionments