Kagawa 2nd district

Legislative district of Japan

香川県第2区Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives

PrefectureKagawaProportional District ShikokuElectorate256,773 (as of September 2022)^[1]Current constituencyCreated1994SeatsOneParty DPPRepresentativeYuichiro TamakiMunicipalitiesSakaide, Sanuki, Higashikagawa, Kita District, Ayauta District, Part of Takamatsu, and Part of Marugame

Kagawa 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, located in Kagawa prefecture. As of September 2022, it had 256,773 eligible voters.^[2]

Area

The district includes the following municipalities:^[3]

Sakaide
Sanuki
Higashikagawa
Miki Town
Ayagawa Town
Utazu Town
The former towns of Aji, Kokubunji, Kagawa, Kōnan, Shionoe and Mure who merged with Takamatsu in 2005 or 2006
The former towns of Ayauta and Hanzan who merged with Marugame in 2005

List of representatives

Election	Representative		Notes
1996	Yoshio Kimura	Liberal Democratic
2000
2003
2005
2009	Yuichiro Tamaki	Democratic	Incumbent
2012
2014
2017		Kibō
2021		DPP

Election Results

2021^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPP	Yuichiro Tamaki (Incumbent)	94,530	63.50	New
	Liberal Democratic	Takakazu Seto [ja]	54,334	36.50	3.90
Registered electors			258,730
Turnout				58.53	2.21
	Democratic Party for the People hold

2017^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Kibō	Yuichiro Tamaki (Incumbent)	82,345	55.49	New
	Liberal Democratic	Takakazu Seto [ja] (Incumbent-Shikoku PR block)	59,949	40.40	0.20
	Communist	Tadashi Kawamura	6,098	4.11	0.53
Registered electors			267,905
Turnout				56.32
	Kibō no Tō hold

2014^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yuichiro Tamaki (Incumbent)	78,797	55.82	5.78
	Liberal Democratic	Takakazu Seto [ja] (Incumbent-Shikoku PR block) (reelected by Shikoku PR block)	57,318	40.60	4.93
	Communist	Mamoru Saeki	5,050	3.58	0.85
Turnout
	Democratic hold

2012^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yuichiro Tamaki (Incumbent)	79,153	50.04	7.13
	Liberal Democratic	Takakazu Seto [ja] (elected by Shikoku PR block)	72,030	45.53	4.18
	Communist	Mamoru Saeki	7,010	4.43	0.77
Turnout
	Democratic hold

2009^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yuichiro Tamaki	109,863	57.17	18.26
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshio Kimura (Incumbent)	79,463	41.35	14.54
	Happiness Realization	Misako Doi	2,848	1.48	New
Turnout
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

2005^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshio Kimura (Incumbent)	100,794	55.89	0.47
	Democratic	Yuichiro Tamaki	70,177	38.91	0.83
	Communist	Tadashi Kawamura	9,382	5.20	0.37
Turnout
	Liberal Democratic hold

2003^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshio Kimura (Incumbent)	85,370	56.36	2.78
	Democratic	Mitsuhiro Manabe [ja]	57,676	38.08	4.28
	Communist	Tadashi Kawamura	8,430	5.57	1.78
Turnout
	Liberal Democratic hold

2000^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshio Kimura (Incumbent)	84,030	53.58	25.13
	Democratic	Mitsuhiro Manabe [ja]	53,015	33.80	New
	Communist	Hisashi Matsuura	11,532	7.35	13.94
	Independent	Takeshi Inozuka	8,265	5.27	New
Turnout
	Liberal Democratic hold

1996^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshio Kimura	98,531	78.71	New
	Communist	Hisashi Matsuura	26,658	21.29	New
Turnout

References

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First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd

Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR

Hokkaidō
(8 block seats, 12 district seats)