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Legislative district of Japan

Kagoshima 2nd District
鹿児島県第2区
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives

Prefecture	Kagoshima
Proportional District	Kyushu
Electorate	334,582 (as of September 2022)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Indep.
Representative	Satoshi Mitazono

Kagoshima 2nd district (鹿児島2区, Kagoshimani-ku) is a single-member electoral district of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The district covers two different parts of Kagoshima Prefecture. On the main island of Kyushu, it covers most of the Satsuma Peninsula; this includes the cities of Makurazaki, Ibusuki, Minamisatsuma, and Minamikyūshū, as well as the former municipalities Taniyama City and Kiire Town, which are now a part of the capital Kagoshima City. The district also includes Ōshima Subprefecture, which covers the Amami Islands more than 300 kilometres (186 miles) to the south, which includes the city of Amami. In 2021, the district had 337,660 eligible voters.

From 2000 to 2014, the district was represented by the Tokuda family, which runs the Tokushūkai hospital group. A political funds scandal in 2013 over donations from Tokushūkai led to the resignations of Tokyo governor Naoki Inose and Representative Takeshi Tokuda. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) still managed to hold the district until 2021, when it was won by former Governor of Kagoshima Prefecture Satoshi Mitazono, who ran as an independent candidate.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Shūkō Sonoda [ja]	LDP	1996–2000
Torao Tokuda	Liberal League	2000–2005	Re-elected at the 2003 general election
Takeshi Tokuda	Independent	2005–2009	Joined the LDP in 2006
Takeshi Tokuda	LDP	2009–2014	Resigned from his seat in February 2014
Masuo Kaneko [ja]	LDP	2014–2021	Won April 2014 by-election and re-elected in 2014 general election
Satoshi Mitazono	Independent	2021–

Results

2021
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Satoshi Mitazono	92,614	47.7
	LDP	Masuo Kaneko	80,469	41.4	9.8
	JCP	Makoto Matsuzaki	21,084	10.9	2.4
Turnout				58.58	2.48
	Independent gain from LDP

2017
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Masuo Kaneko	97,743	51.2	23.0
	Kibō no Tō	Kayo Saitō	43,331	22.7
	Independent	Kenji Hayashi	33,317	17.5
	JCP	Mitsuharu Iwaizako	16,280	8.5	17.3
Turnout				56.10	8.99
	LDP hold

2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Masuo Kaneko [ja](endorsed by Komeito)	91,670	74.2
	JCP	Mitsuharu Iwaizako	31,823	25.8
Turnout			277,830	47.11	13.44
	LDP hold

April 2014 By-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Masuo Kaneko [ja] (endorsed by Komeito)	66,360	52.6
	Independent	Akashi Uchikoshi [ja] (Endorsed by Democratic, Restoration, Unity and People's Life parties)	46,021	36.5
	Shintō Hitori Hitori	Yoshiko Arikawa	5,507	4.6
	JCP	Terashi Mishima	5,507	4.4
	Happiness Realization	Isao Matsuzawa	1,283	1.0
	Independent	Toshiaki Seki	1,152	0.9
Turnout			279,787	60.55	13.63
	LDP hold

2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Tokuda (Incumbent) (endorsed by Komeito)	109,744	66.7
	Democratic	Akashi Uchikoshi [ja] (PR block incumbent) (endorsed by People's New Party)	45,707	27.8
	JCP	Terashi Mishima	9,177	5.6
Turnout			281,457	74.18	0.37
	LDP hold

2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Tokuda (Incumbent)	114,102	55.7
	Democratic	Akashi Uchikoshi [ja] Was elected to Kyūshū PR block	88,562	43.2
	Happiness Realization	Mifuko Kamimura	1,169	1.1
Turnout			283,503	73.81	2.22
	LDP gain from Independent

2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Takeshi Tokuda	112,437	53.48
	LDP	Shuko Sonoda [ja]	71,858	35.15
	Independent	Akashi Uchikoshi [ja]	44,853	21.94
Turnout
	Independent gain from Liberal League

2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal League	Torao Tokuda (Incumbent)	97,423	49.1
	LDP	Shuko Sonoda [ja]	90,952	45.9
	JCP	Toshiaki Seki	9,903	5.0
Turnout
	Liberal League hold

2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal League	Torao Tokuda	102,233	50.3
	LDP	Shuko Sonoda [ja] (Incumbent)	91,162	44.9
	JCP	Haruki Yamaguchi	9,744	4.8
Turnout
	Liberal League gain from LDP

1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Shuko Sonoda [ja]	87,471	47.9
	Liberal League	Torao Tokuda	84,448	46.3
	JCP	Seiki Katsurada	10,618	5.8
Turnout
	LDP win (new seat)

References

"総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-04.
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
開票速報小選挙区：鹿児島- 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
小選挙区鹿児島2区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
"総選挙2014>開票結果小選挙区鹿児島" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Kagoshima electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 October 2016.
"衆議院鹿児島県第２区選出議員補欠選挙結果調" [House of Kepresentatives Kagoshima 2nd District By-election Results] (PDF) (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ "鹿児島２区補選「安倍人気」なお追い風、金子氏初当選" [Kagoshima 2nd District By-election: "Abe's popularity" tail wind, Kaneko elected]. Sankei Shimbun. 28 April 2014. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区鹿児島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-03-28.
総選挙2009>開票結果小選挙区鹿児島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-03-28.
"総選挙2005>開票結果小選挙区鹿児島" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Kagoshima electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 October 2016.

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	Block 8 seats Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku	Block 12 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	Block 19 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	Block 23 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	Block 19 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	Block 10 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	Block 21 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	Block 28 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	Block 10 seats Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku	Block 6 seats Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū	Block 20 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
Eliminated districts	Eliminiated in 2002 Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4 Eliminiated in 2013 Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3 Eliminiated in 2017 Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5 Eliminiated in 2022 Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4

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