Hyōgo 2nd district

Hyogo 2nd district (兵庫県第2区, Hyōgo-ken Dai-niku), also referred to as Hyōgo ni-ku (兵庫2区), is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan located in southwestern Hyogo Prefecture. The district consists of the Hyōgo, Kita and Nagata wards of Kobe and, after redistricting in 2017, a part of Nishinomiya (the former villages of Yamaguchi and Shiose). As of September 2015, 357,643 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.

The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 1st district, which covered the whole of Kobe and elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Since the district's creation, the seat has been held by Kazuyoshi Akaba of the Komeito party, except for the DPJ landslide 2009 election when Koichi Mukoyama won the seat. Akaba subsequently defeated Mukoyama in the December 2012 election.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Kazuyoshi Akaba		New Frontier(1996–98)	1996 – 2009	Senior Vice-Minister of Finance (November 2005 – September 2006)
		Komeito(1998-2009)
Koichi Mukoyama		Democratic	2009 – 2012
Kazuyoshi Akaba		Komeito	2012–present	Senior Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry and Cabinet Senior Vice-Minister (December 2012 – September 2014)

Election results

2024

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuyoshi Akaba
	CDP	Jirō Funakawa
	JCP	Yumiko Takeuchi
	Ishin	Keishi Abe			New
	Sanseitō	Eiji Seo			New
Turnout

2021[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuyoshi Akaba	99,455	54.2	1.7
	CDP	Jirō Funakawa	61,884	33.7
	JCP	Tsuruo Miyano	22,124	12.1	11.1
Turnout				50.97	4.99
	Komeito hold

2017[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuyoshi Akaba	89,349	52.5	3.2
	Independent	Jirō Funakawa	41,238	24.2
	JCP	Junko Hiramatsu	39,502	23.2	3.3
Turnout				45.98	2.03
	Komeito hold

2014[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuyoshi Akaba	78,131	49.3	2.0
	Democratic	Koichi Mukoyama	48,796	30.8	7.2
	JCP	Junko Hiramatsu	31,575	19.9	7.3
Turnout				48.01	7.15
	Komeito hold

2012[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuyoshi Akaba	87,969	47.3
	Democratic	Koichi Mukoyama	43,900	23.6
	Independent	Daisuke Gotō	30,658	16.5
	JCP	Yūna Nukina	23,367	12.6
Turnout

2009[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Koichi Mukoyama	11,208	48.9	11.1
	Komeito	Kazuyoshi Akaba	88,502	38.9	−9.2
	JCP	Hiroko Imura	23,041	10.1	−4.0
	Happiness Realization	Tomohiro Takeuchi	4,485	2.0	2.0
Turnout

2005[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuyoshi Akaba	106,056	48.1
	Democratic	Fusaho Izumi	83,380	37.8
	JCP	Junko Hiramatsu	31,155	14.1
Turnout

See also

• Hyogo at-large district, Hyogo Prefecture's district for the House of Councillors

References

1. "平成27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" [2 September 2015 Current number of registered voters and absentee voters] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
2. 小選挙区 兵庫２区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
3. 小選挙区 兵庫２区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
4. "総選挙2014>開票結果 小選挙区 兵庫" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
5. "総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 兵庫" [2012 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
6. "総選挙2009>開票結果 小選挙区 兵庫" [2009 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
7. "総選挙2005>開票結果 小選挙区 兵庫" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.