Yamaguchi 2nd district

Yamaguchi 2nd District
Yamaguchi 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Yamaguchi Prefecture; single-member districts
Prefecture	Yamaguchi
Proportional District	Chūgoku
Electorate	294,753 (2017)
Major settlements	Kudamatsu, Iwakuni, Hikari, Yanai, and parts of Shūnan
Current constituency
Party	LDP
Representative	Nobuchiyo Kishi

Yamaguchi 2nd district (山口県第2区 Yamaguchi-ken dai-ni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Eastern Yamaguchi and consists of the cities of Kudamatsu, Iwakuni, Hikari, Yanai, and parts of Shūnan.

While Yamaguchi is generally a stronghold for the Liberal Democratic Party, the 2nd district has historically been regarded as a swing seat with closer margins of victory.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Shinji Satō	LDP	1996 – 2000
Hideo Hiraoka	DPJ	2000 – 2005
Yoshihiko Fukuda	LDP	2005 – 2008
Hideo Hiraoka	DPJ	2008 – 2012
Nobuo Kishi	LDP	2012 – 2023	Resigned
Vacant (February 2023 – April 2023)
Nobuchiyo Kishi	LDP	2023 –

Recent election results

2023 by-elections^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuchiyo Kishi	61,369	52.5	24.4
	Independent	Hideo Hiraoka	55,601	47.5
Turnout				42.41	9.20
	LDP hold

2021^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuo Kishi	109,914	76.9	3.1
	JCP	Kazushi Matsuda	32,936	23.1	3.1
Turnout				51.61	2.27
	LDP hold

2017^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP - Kōmeitō	Nobuo Kishi	113,012	73.8
	JCP	Kazushi Matsuda	40,051	26.2
Turnout			153,063	53.88

References

^ "衆議院小選挙区 - 確定投票状況" [House of Representatives election district - Fixed Vote Status]. Yamaguchi Prefecture Election Commission (in Japanese). 2017.
^ 衆院補選山口２区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
^ 開票速報小選挙区：山口２区 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
^ Asahai Shimbun: election results in Yamaguchi's single-member districts

[VoteTurnout2017-1] "衆議院小選挙区 - 確定投票状況" [House of Representatives election district - Fixed Vote Status]. Yamaguchi Prefecture Election Commission (in Japanese). 2017.

[2] 衆院補選山口２区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 10 May 2023.

[3] 開票速報小選挙区：山口２区 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 10 May 2023.

[4] Asahai Shimbun: election results in Yamaguchi's single-member districts

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v t e 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)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 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 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 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 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 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 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4