Tochigi 2nd district

Tochigi 2nd District
Tochigi 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Tochigi Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Tochigi
Proportional District	Kita-Kantō
Electorate	262,690 (2021)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	CDP
Representative	Akio Fukuda
Created from	Tochigi's 1st and 2nd "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Kanuma, Nikkō, Sakura, Utsunomiya (Kamikawachi and Kawachi towns) and Shioya District

Tochigi 2nd district (栃木県[第]2区, Tochigi-ken-[dai-]nikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in northeastern Tochigi and consists of the cities of Kanuma, Nikkō and Sakura, part of Utsunomiya city and the two towns in Shioya District. As of 2016, 272,047 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

The district is currently represented by former Governor of Tochigi Akio Fukuda. Previous representatives in the district include former Agriculture Minister Kōya Nishikawa and Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Kōya Nishikawa	LDP	1996 – 2003
Mayumi Moriyama	LDP	2003 – 2009
Akio Fukuda	DPJ	2009 – 2012	Won in the PR block
Kōya Nishikawa	LDP	2012 – 2014	Won in the PR block
Akio Fukuda	DPJ	2014 – 2016	Incumbent
	DP	2016 – 2018
	CDP	2018 –

Election results

2024^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Akio Fukuda	68,377	56.8	3.4
	LDP	Kiyoshi Igarashi (elected in PR block)	51,955	43.2	3.4
Turnout				49.56	4.19
	CDP hold

2021^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Akio Fukuda	73,593	53.39	0.02
	LDP	Kiyoshi Igarashi (elected in PR block)	64,253	46.61	0.02
Turnout				53.75	0.12
	CDP hold		Swing	0.01

2017^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Akio Fukuda (endorsed by CDP, SDP, DP, JCP)	75,031	53.41	6.72
	LDP	Kōya Nishikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	65,445	46.59	0.05
Majority			16,105	8.94
Turnout				53.63	2.17
	Independent hold		Swing	3.34

2014^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Akio Fukuda	62,439	46.69	14.68
	LDP	Kōya Nishikawa (elected by PR)	62,240	46.54	7.90
	JCP	Hidemi Abe	9,054	6.77	3.76
Majority			199	0.15
Turnout				51.46	3.40
	Democratic gain from LDP		Swing	3.89

2012^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kōya Nishikawa	55,853	38.64	2.96
	Democratic	Akio Fukuda	46,271	32.01	30.93
	Your	Yūji Kashiwakura	38,086	26.35	N/A
	JCP	Yutaka Fujii	4,348	3.01	N/A
Majority			9,582	6.63
Turnout				54.86
	LDP gain from Democratic		Swing	16.45

2009^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Akio Fukuda	115,046	62.94	16.25
	LDP	Kōya Nishikawa	65,222	35.68	17.63
	Happiness Realization	Kunifumi Sakashita	2,526	1.38	N/A
Majority			49,824	27.26
	Democratic gain from LDP		Swing	16.94

2005^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Mayumi Moriyama	99,115	53.31
	Democratic	Akio Fukuda	86,818	46.69

2000
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Mayumi Moriyama	96,224	59.5
Democratic	Mamoru Kobayashi	60,010	37.1
JCP	Michio Fukuda	5,506	3.4

2000
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Kōya Nishikawa	77,054	48.1
Democratic	Mamoru Kobayashi	74,132	46.3
JCP	Michio Fukuda	9,066	5.7

1996
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Kōya Nishikawa	73,393	52.6
Democratic	Mamoru Kobayashi	55,439	39.7
JCP	Toshiharu Kobayashi	8,84	6.3
Liberal League	Kō Takahashi	1,960	1.4

References

^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
^ 開票速報小選挙区：栃木 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
^ 開票速報小選挙区：栃木 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
^ 小選挙区開票速報：栃木（定数5） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^ 小選挙区：栃木県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^ 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：栃木 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^ 栃木県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^ ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー栃木県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)

[2] 開票速報小選挙区：栃木 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 10 December 2024.

[3] 開票速報小選挙区：栃木 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 13 December 2021.

[4] 小選挙区開票速報：栃木（定数5） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

[5] 小選挙区：栃木県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

[6] 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：栃木 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

[7] 栃木県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

[8] ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー栃木県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

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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