SHIGA 2ND DISTRICT

Shiga 2nd district
Shiga 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency; for the House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Shiga Prefecture single-member districts
Electorate	437,139 (as of September 1, 2022)
Current constituency
Number of members	1
Party	LDP
Representative	Ken'ichirō Ueno

Shiga 2nd district (Shiga[-ken dai-]ni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Japanese National Diet, located in Eastern Shiga Prefecture.

Shiga 2nd district was initially won by Masayoshi Takemura of New Party Harbinger (NPH), the former three-term governor of Shiga who had represented the five-member Shiga At-large district before the electoral reform since 1986 and was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the anti-LDP coalition Hosokawa Cabinet and Minister of Finance in the LDP-JSP-NPH Murayama Cabinet. In the 2000 Representatives election, he ran as an independent with Democratic Party support and lost to Liberal Democrat Akira Konishi. Konishi died in 2001, the resulting by-election was won by his younger brother Osamu. But in the general House of Representatives election of 2003, Democrat Issei Tajima narrowly beat Konishi who won a seat in the proportional vote. In the "postal election" of 2005, Tajima defended the seat as Konishi ran as independent postal privatization rebel and the LDP sent "assassin" candidate Yūji Fujii. Fujii won a proportional seat in 2005, but lost it in 2009 as Tajima won the district race by a large margin; in 2010, Fujii was elected mayor of Nagahama City. In the 2012 House of Representatives election, Ken'ichirō Ueno who had represented the 1st district for the Liberal Democrats between 2005 and 2009 moved to the 2nd district and beat Tajima.

Area

In the 2002 reapportionment Shiga gained a seat and the southern portion of the 2nd district was transferred to the newly created Shiga 4th district. In the 2022 reapportionment, the 4th district was abolished, thus the current 2nd district has similar borders to when it was created in 1994. The smaller 2nd district had 264,168 eligible voters in 2012.^[2]

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Masayoshi Takemura	NPH	1996–2000	Left NPH in 1998
Akira Konishi	LDP	2000–2001	Died in office
Osamu Konishi	LDP	2001–2003
Issei Tajima	DPJ	2003–2012
Ken'ichirō Ueno	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2021^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Ken'ichirō Ueno	83,502	56.6	6.1
	CDP	Issei Tajima	64,119	43.4	3.2
Turnout				56.93	1,13
	Liberal Democratic hold

2017^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Ken'ichirō Ueno	73,694	50.5	1.7
	Kibō no Tō	Issei Tajima	58,718	40.2
	Independent	Jishō Taigetsu	11,073	7.6
	HRP	Masashi Arakawa	2,576	1.8
Turnout				55.80	4.09
	Liberal Democratic hold

2014^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Ken'ichirō Ueno	65,102	48.8	5.5
	Democratic	Issei Tajima (elected by PR)	54,095	40.6	9.1
	Communist	Mutsuko Nakagawa	14,163	10.6	2.8
Turnout				51.71	8.35
	Liberal Democratic hold

2012^[6]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP ( NK)	Ken'ichirō Ueno	67,182	43.3
DPJ ( PNP)	Issei Tajima	48,924	31.5
YP ( JRP)	Yoshiyuki Yoichi	26,978	17.4
JCP	Mutsuko Nakagawa	12,084	7.8

2009^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ (PNP)	Issei Tajima	109,885	61.0
	LDP (NK)	Yūji Fujii	66,959	37.2
	HRP	Nobutaka Ikeda	3,205	1.8
Turnout			183,270	69.71

2005^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Issei Tajima	67,481	38.5
	LDP	Yūji Fujii (won Kinki PR seat)	54,067	30.8
	Independent	Osamu Konishi	43,416	24.8
	JCP	Kazuyo Maruoka	10,413	5.9
Turnout			177,450	68.36

2003^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Issei Tajima	69,620	44.9
	LDP	Osamu Konishi (won Kinki PR seat)	65,033	41.9
	Independent	Ryūji Kawashima	11,814	7.6
	JCP	Shin'ichi Sakai	8,741	5.6
Turnout			157,333	61.11

October 28, 2001 by-election^[10]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Osamu Konishi	99,572	52.0
DPJ	Issei Tajima	76,154	39.8
JCP	Etsuko Narumiya	15,765	8.2

2000^[11]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Akira Konishi	125,625	45.7
Independent (DPJ)	Masayoshi Takemura	115,322	42.0
JCP	Akihiko Hiyama	33,660	12.3

1996^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	NPH	Masayoshi Takemura	107,053	43.0
	LDP	Akira Konishi	79,136	31.8
	NFP	Tsutomu Matsumura	35,192	14.1
	JCP	Kan Kikuchi	27,595	11.1
Turnout			254,262	62.65

References

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^ Ministry of general affairs: 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数
^ 小選挙区滋賀2区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
^ 小選挙区滋賀2区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
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^ 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区滋賀. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-01.
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[1] "令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of registrants on the electoral list and overseas electoral list as of September 1, 2022]. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (in Japanese). 2023.

[2] Ministry of general affairs: 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数

[3] 小選挙区滋賀2区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 July 2023.

[4] 小選挙区滋賀2区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 July 2023.

[5] 2014年12月14日(日) 投票小選挙区滋賀2区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 July 2023.

[6] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区滋賀. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-01.

[7] 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-04-01. {{ cite web}}: External link in |work= ( help)

[8] 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-04-01. {{ cite web}}: External link in |work= ( help)

[9] 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-04-01. {{ cite web}}: External link in |work= ( help)

[10] 第42回衆議院議員補欠選挙 - 滋賀2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-04-01. {{ cite web}}: External link in |work= ( help)

[11] 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-04-01. {{ cite web}}: External link in |work= ( help)

[12] 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-04-01. {{ cite web}}: External link in |work= ( help)

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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, 23 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, 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 16
Minami- (South) Kantō ( 23 block seats, 33 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, 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 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku- Shin'etsu ( 10 block seats, 19 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, 32 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, 47 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, 20 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, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū ( 20 block seats, 35 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

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, 23 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, 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 16
Minami- (South) Kantō ( 23 block seats, 33 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, 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 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku- Shin'etsu ( 10 block seats, 19 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, 32 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, 47 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, 20 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, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū ( 20 block seats, 35 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

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Shiga 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Representatives
Numbered map of Shiga Prefecture single-member districts
Electorate	437,139 (as of September 1, 2022)^[1]
Current constituency
Number of members	1
Party	LDP
Representative	Ken'ichirō Ueno