Nara 2nd district

Nara 2nd district
Nara 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency; for the House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Nara Prefecture single-member districts
Electorate	382,819 (as of September 1, 2022)
Current constituency
Number of members	1
Party	LDP
Representative	Sanae Takaichi

Nara 2nd district (奈良2区 Nara ni-ku, more formally 奈良県第2区 Nara-ken dai-ni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan, located in Nara Prefecture.

After the introduction of first-past-the-post single-member districts, Nara 2nd district was first represented by Liberal Democratic newcomer Makoto Taki. In 2003, he lost the district to Democrat Tetsuji Nakamura, but won a seat in the Kinki proportional representation block. Taki was a postal privatization rebel in 2005 and joined the New Party Nippon ("New Party Japan"). The 2nd district went to Liberal Democrat Sanae Takaichi who had been a member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003 (Nara At-large district as an independent in 1993, Nara 1st district for the New Frontier Party in 1996, Kinki PR block for the LDP in 2000). Taki only finished third, but again won a proportional seat – the only one of New Party Nippon's three seats in the country the party could hold. In 2009, Taki joined the Democratic Party and narrowly regained the 2nd district for the Democrats. Takaichi who had been a minister in the Abe cabinet remained Representative via the Kinki PR block. In 2012, Taki retired and Takaichi easily retook the district.

Area

After redistricting in 2017, the district covers the following:

Yamatokōriyama
Tenri
Kashiba
Yamabe District
Ikoma District
Shiki District
Former village of Tsuge (now a part of Nara City)

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Makoto Taki	LDP	1996 – 2003	Re-elected in the Kinki PR block
Tetsuji Nakamura	DPJ	2003 – 2005	Failed re-election by PR
Sanae Takaichi	LDP	2005 – 2009	Re-elected by PR
Makoto Taki	DPJ	2009 – 2012	Retired
Sanae Takaichi	LDP	2012 –	Incumbent

Election results

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Sanae Takaichi	141,858	64.6	4.5
	CDP	Misato Ioku	54,326	24.8
	JCP	Jirō Miyamoto	23,285	10.6	4.1
Turnout				58.69	3.80
	LDP hold

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Sanae Takaichi	124,508	60.1	2.1
	Kibō no Tō	Masayuki Matsumoto	52,384	25.3
	JCP	Junichi Shimotori	21,937	14.7	0.7
Turnout				54.89	0.51
	LDP hold

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Sanae Takaichi	96,218	61.3	14.6
	People's Life	Tetsuji Nakamura	38,781	24.7
	JCP	Nobutake Izumi	21,937	14.0	7.3
Turnout				55.40	8.50
	LDP hold

2012^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP – Kōmeitō	Sanae Takaichi	86,747	46.7
JRP – YP	Ken Namikawa	45,014	24.2
DPJ – PNP	Takeru Hyakutake	22,321	12.0
TPJ – NPD	Tetsuji Nakamura	19,200	10.3
JCP	Akemi Nakano	12,444	6.7

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ – PNP	Makoto Taki	98,728	46.5
	LDP – Kōmeitō	Sanae Takaichi (elected by PR)	94,879	44.7
	JCP	Fumiko Nishi	15,626	7.4
	HRP	Takako Tanaka	2,971	1.4
Turnout			216,526	72.6

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Sanae Takaichi	92,096	44.5
	DPJ	Tetsuji Nakamura	72,074	34.8
	NPN	Makoto Taki (elected by PR)	29,995	14.5
	JCP	Akemi Nakano	12,657	6.1
Turnout			211,226	71.03

2003^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Tetsuji Nakamura	83,168	48.4
	LDP	Makoto Taki (elected by PR)	73,646	42.9
	JCP	Jirō Miyamoto	15,044	8.8
Turnout			178,668	60.31

References

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[2] 小選挙区奈良2区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 17 July 2023.

[3] 小選挙区小選挙区奈良2区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 17 July 2023.

[4] 2014年12月14日(日) 投票小選挙区奈良2区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 17 July 2023.

[5] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区奈良. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-06.

[6] 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 奈良2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp., originally JANJAN. Retrieved 2012-11-02. {{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, 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