Miyagi 2nd district

Japan House of Representatives constituency

宮城県第2区Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives

Numbered map of Miyagi Prefecture single-member districts

PrefectureMiyagiProportional District TohokuElectorate455,409^[1]Current constituencyCreated1994SeatsOneParty CDPRepresentativeSayuri Kamata

Miyagi 2nd district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located on the island of Honshu, in Miyagi Prefecture, and includes parts of the city of Sendai, the prefectural capital (the city is shared with District 2).^[2]

As of 2020, the district was home to 454,848 constituents.^[3]

The district is represented by Ken'ya Akiba of the Liberal Democratic Party.^[4]

Seat representatives


Representative		Years	Notes
Masashi Nakano	LDP	1996-2000
Sayuri Kamata	DPJ	2000-2005	Stepped down due to violations of the public election law
Kenya Akiba	LDP	2005-2009
Yasunori Saito	DPJ	2009-2012
Kenya Akiba	LDP	2012-2021
Sayuri Kamata	CDP	2021-	Incumbent

Areas covered

Since it was formed in 1994 as a single member constituency, it has been made up of the following areas:

Sendai
- Miyagino-ku
- Wakabayashi-ku
- Izumi-ku

Election results

2021^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CDP	Sayuri Kamata	116,320	49.0
	Liberal Democratic	Kenya Akiba	115,749	48.7
	Anti-NHK	Hayashi Maria Yuki	5,521	2.3
Turnout			244,190	53.6
	CDP gain from Liberal Democratic

2017^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Kenya Akiba (endorsed by Komeito and the Party for Japanese Kokoro)	111,559	50.3
	Independent	Sayuri Kamata	110,243	49.7
Turnout			227,943	50.6
	Liberal Democratic hold

2014^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Kenya Akiba	91,289	45.5
	Innovation	Hiroki Hayashi	60,653	30.3
	Communist	Mari Ouchi	21,630	10.8
	Japanese Kokoro	Masumoto Teruaki	15,228	7.6
	Social Democratic	Takashi Kuwashima	11,725	5.9
Turnout				53.6
	Liberal Democratic hold

2012^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Kenya Akiba (endorsed by Komeito)	76,595	33.5
	Restoration	Masahi Nakano	45,316	19.8
	Democratic	Konno Higashi (endorsed by the PNP)	35,085	15.3
	Tomorrow	Yasunori Saito (endorsed by New Party Daichi)	34,348	15.0
	Your	Fumihiro Kikuchi	23,138	10.1
	Communist	Kazue Fukushima	14,494	6.3
Turnout				54.6
	Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic

2009^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Yasunori Saito	158,041	58.9
	Liberal Democratic	Masashi Nakano (incumbent)	98,517	36.7
	Independent	Yutaka Sato	9,912	3.7
	Happiness Realization	Kimito Abe	2,086	0.8
Turnout				64.5
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

2005^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Kenya Akiba	130,257	52.8
	Democratic	Yukiko Monma	98,645	40.0
	Communist	Daira Goto	17,906	7.3
Turnout				61.3
	Liberal Democratic hold

2005 by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Kenya Akiba	58,023	39.1
	Democratic	Yukiko Monma	52,381	35.3
	Independent	Fumihiro Kikuchi	22,702	15.3
	Communist	Daira Goto	8,358	5.6
	Social Democratic	Eiji Tayama	6,808	4.6
Turnout
	Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic

2003^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sayuri Kamata (incumbent)	98,028	45.4
	Liberal Democratic	Masashi Nakano	94,621	43.8
	Communist	Daira Goto	11,311	5.2
	Social Democratic	Eiji Tayama	9,107	4.2
	Independent	Koichi Shibata	3,019	1.4
Turnout				54.9
	Democratic hold

2000^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sayuri Kamata	99,498	47.8
	Liberal Democratic	Masashi Nakano	87,949	42.2
	Communist	Nobukatsu Tsuda	20,914	10.0
Turnout
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

1996^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Masashi Nakano	68,137	35.8
	New Frontier	Kunio Chiba (incumbent - previous district)	62,533	32.9
	Democratic	Yutaka Sato	27,328	14.4
	Communist	Daira Goto	18,157	9.5
	Social Democratic	Kenji Ishikawa	12,629	6.6
	Liberal League	Tatsuya Igarashi	1,490	0.8
Turnout			195,098	52.9
	Liberal Democratic win (new seat)

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