Miyagi 2nd district

Miyagi 2nd District
Miyagi 2nd District
宮城県第2区
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Miyagi Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Miyagi
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	455,409
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	CDP
Representative	Sayuri Kamata [ja]

Miyagi 2nd district (Japanese: 宮城県第2区, Hepburn: Miyagi-ken Dainiku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located on the island of Honshu, in Miyagi Prefecture, and includes parts of the city of Sendai, the prefectural capital (the city is shared with District 2).^[2]

As of 2020, the district was home to 454,848 constituents.^[3]

Area

Since the constituency was established in 1994, it has included the following area:


Representative		Years	Notes
Masashi Nakano	LDP	1996 – 2000
Sayuri Kamata	DPJ	2000 – 2005	Stepped down due to violations of the public election law
Kenya Akiba	LDP	2005 – 2009
Yasunori Saito	DPJ	2009 – 2012
Kenya Akiba	LDP	2012 – 2021
Sayuri Kamata [ja]	CDP	2021 –

2024^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Sayuri Kamata	116,390	53.2	4.2
	LDP	Kenya Akiba	71,633	32.7	16.0
	Ishin	Atsushi Hayasaka	30,967	14.1
Registered electors			453,658
Turnout				50.03	3.59
	CDP hold

2021^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CDP	Sayuri Kamata	116,320	49.0
	LDP	Kenya Akiba (elected in Tohoku PR block)	115,749	48.7
	Anti-NHK	Hayashi Maria Yuki	5,521	2.3
Turnout			244,190	53.6
	CDP gain from LDP

2017^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Kenya Akiba (endorsed by Komeito and the Party for Japanese Kokoro)	111,559	50.3
	Independent	Sayuri Kamata	110,243	49.7
Turnout			227,943	50.6
	LDP hold

2014^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Kenya Akiba	91,289	45.5
	Ishin	Hiroki Hayashi	60,653	30.3
	JCP	Mari Ouchi	21,630	10.8
	Japanese Kokoro	Masumoto Teruaki	15,228	7.6
	Social Democratic	Takashi Kuwashima	11,725	5.9
Turnout				53.6
	LDP hold

2012^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Kenya Akiba (endorsed by Komeito)	76,595	33.5
	Restoration	Masahi Nakano	45,316	19.8
	Democratic	Konno Higashi (endorsed by the PNP)	35,085	15.3
	Tomorrow	Yasunori Saito (endorsed by New Party Daichi)	34,348	15.0
	Your	Fumihiro Kikuchi	23,138	10.1
	JCP	Kazue Fukushima	14,494	6.3
Turnout				54.6
	LDP gain from Democratic

2009^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Yasunori Saito	158,041	58.9
	LDP	Masashi Nakano (incumbent)	98,517	36.7
	Independent	Yutaka Sato	9,912	3.7
	Happiness Realization	Kimito Abe	2,086	0.8
Turnout				64.5
	Democratic gain from LDP

2005^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Kenya Akiba	130,257	52.8
	Democratic	Yukiko Monma	98,645	40.0
	JCP	Daira Goto	17,906	7.3
Turnout				61.3
	LDP hold

2005 by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Kenya Akiba	58,023	39.1
	Democratic	Yukiko Monma	52,381	35.3
	Independent	Fumihiro Kikuchi	22,702	15.3
	JCP	Daira Goto	8,358	5.6
	Social Democratic	Eiji Tayama	6,808	4.6
Turnout
	LDP gain from Democratic

2003^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sayuri Kamata (incumbent)	98,028	45.4
	LDP	Masashi Nakano (elected in Tohoku PR block)	94,621	43.8
	JCP	Daira Goto	11,311	5.2
	Social Democratic	Eiji Tayama	9,107	4.2
	Independent	Koichi Shibata	3,019	1.4
Turnout				54.9
	Democratic hold

1996^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Masashi Nakano	68,137	35.8
	New Frontier	Kunio Chiba (incumbent - previous district)	62,533	32.9
	Democratic	Yutaka Sato	27,328	14.4
	JCP	Daira Goto	18,157	9.5
	Social Democratic	Kenji Ishikawa	12,629	6.6
	Liberal League	Tatsuya Igarashi	1,490	0.8
Turnout			195,098	52.9
	LDP win (new seat)