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Okinawa 2nd district

Okinawa 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Okinawa Prefecture and encompasses the cities of Urasoe and Ginowan, and Nakagami District. As of 2016, 288,070 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Okinawa 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Okinawa Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureOkinawa
Proportional DistrictKyushu
Electorate294,848 (2021)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartySocial Democratic Party
RepresentativeKunio Arakaki
Created fromOkinawa's at-large "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesUrasoe, Ginowan and Nakagami District

The district is represented by Kunio Arakaki of the Social Democratic Party. It is the only Diet single-seat constituency held by the SDP.

Background

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The district was considered a stronghold for veteran Social Democrat Kantoku Teruya, who held the district continuously from 2003 to 2021. Such is the strength of the SDP vote in the district that during the LDP landslides in 2005 and 2012, Teruya still managed to hold the district comfortably. The significant presence of US military bases in Ginowan is regarded as a major factor contributing to the wide aversion of the local population to voting LDP candidates, who are typically pro-base.[2] Teruya retired before the 2021 elections but Kunio Arakaki, the former mayor of Kitanakagusuku, managed to hold the seat for the SDP.

Okinawa-2nd is also one of the few districts that the JCP regularly skips from contesting. The party continuously endorsed Teruya in each election since 2009. Other centre-left parties have also generally refrained from contesting the district and regularly backed Teruya in general elections.[3]

List of representatives

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Representative Party Dates
Seiji Nakamura NFP 1996
LDP 1996 – 2003
Kantoku Teruya SDP 2003 – 2021
Kunio Arakaki SDP 2021 –

Election results

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2024
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Democratic Kunio Arakaki
LDP Masahisa Miyazaki endorsed by Kōmeitō)
Ishin Noboru Akamine
Independent Takashi Hika
Sanseitō Asami Konno New
Turnout
2021[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Democratic Kunio Arakaki 74,665 47.39  11.55
LDP Masahisa Miyazaki (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 64,542 40.96  0.10
Ishin Yasuhiro Yamakawa 15,296 9.71
Anti-NHK Yukiya Nakamura 3,053 1.94
Turnout 54.82  1.24
Social Democratic hold
2017[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya 92,143 58.94  3.25
LDP Masahisa Miyazaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 64,193 41.06  3.25
Majority 27,950 17.88
Turnout 56.06  4.48
Social Democratic hold Swing  3.25
2014[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by JCP, PLP, OSMP, the Greens and Shinfūkai) 85,781 62.19  13.18
LDP Masahisa Miyazaki (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 52,156 37.81  0.89
Majority 33,625 34.38
Turnout 51.58
Social Democratic hold Swing  6.15
2012[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya 73,498 49.01  12.09
LDP Masahisa Miyazaki (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP) 55,373 36.92  3.45
Restoration Toshinori Kinjō (endorsed by YP) 19,551 13.04 N/A
Independent Baku Nagai 1,556 1.04 N/A
Majority 18,125 12.09
Turnout
Social Democratic hold Swing  7.77
2009[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by OSMP) 101,820 61.10  14.40
LDP Osamu Ashitomi (endorsed by NKP) 60,773 36.47  2.87
Happiness Realization Noboru Tomikawa 4,044 2.43 N/A
Majority 41,047 24.67
Social Democratic hold Swing  8.64
2005[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by OSMP) 71,861 46.70
LDP Osamu Ashitomi (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP) 60,540 39.34
Independent Noboru Shimajiri 14,617 9.50
JCP Morinobu Nishihira 6,875 4.47
Social Democratic hold Swing
2003
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by DPJ and OSMP) 74,123 55.4
LDP Yoshiji Uehara (endorsed by NKP and NCP) 47,759 35.7
JCP Norio Maemiya 6,560 4.9
Independent Kunio Kinjō 5,297 4.0
Social Democratic gain from LDP Swing
2000
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Seiji Nakamura (endorsed by NKP and NCP) 88,544 49.3
Democratic Noboru Shimajiri 30,970 17.3
Liberal League Hiroshi Kinjō (endorsed by SDP) 30,946 17.2
JCP Tsuneo Nakanishi 29,039 16.2
1996
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Frontier Seiji Nakamura 66,421 41.3
Okinawa Social Mass Aichi Nakamoto (endorsed by JCP and NSP) 51,689 32.2
Liberal League Hiroshi Kinjō 18,696 11.6
LDP Kunio Kinjō 18,142 11.3
NP-Sakigake Jinichirō Asato (endorsed by DPJ) 5,801 3.6

References

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  1. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
  2. ^ "Anti-US base candidates win all seats in Okinawa in Lower House election". Ryukyu Shimpo. 14 December 2014. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  3. ^ Kyodo News (15 December 2014). "LDP loses heavily in Okinawa". Japan Times. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  4. ^ 開票速報 小選挙区：沖縄- 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  5. ^ 小選挙区開票速報：沖縄県（定数4） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  6. ^ 小選挙区：沖縄県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  7. ^ 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：沖縄県 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  8. ^ 小選挙区開票結果ー沖縄県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  9. ^ ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー沖縄県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

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