Ishikawa 2nd district

Ishikawa 2nd district (石川[県第]2区, Ishikawa-[ken-dai-]ni-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in Southern Ishikawa and covers the cities of Komatsu, Kaga, Nomi, Hakusan, Nonoichi and the (as administrative unit: former) Nomi county with only one remaining municipality: Kawakita town. As of 2012, 318,892 eligible voters were registered in the district giving it slightly above average voting weight.^[1]

The district's first representative after the electoral reform of the 1990s was Liberal Democrat Yoshirō Mori (Machimura faction) who had represented the pre-reform three-member Ishikawa 1st district since 1969. In April 2000, Mori was elected LDP president uncontested to replace Keizō Obuchi who had suffered an eventually fatal stroke, but resigned after one year. In the 2009 election when the LDP-led coalition lost its majority, Mori narrowly defended his district against Democratic newcomer Mieko Tanaka. In previous elections, Mori's main challenger had been reformist conservative former Liberal Democratic prefectural assemblyman Yasuo Ichikawa (LDP→JRP→NFP→LP→DPJ) who was elected in the proportional representation bloc three times and went on to become Councillor for Ishikawa in 2007.

In 2012, Mori retired. His son and former secretary Yūki Mori had resigned from his prefectural assembly seat in 2010 over a car accident under the influence. He died in 2011. The LDP candidacy in Ishikawa 2nd district went to political newcomer Hajime Sasaki, a former director of a building management company from Nomi City. Sasaki safely held the seat for the LDP.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Yoshirō Mori		LDP	1996–2012	Retired
Hajime Sasaki		LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP (Kōmeitō, NRP)	Hajime Sasaki	123,283	64.5
DPJ (PNP)	Keiko Miyamoto	37,601	19.7
SDP	Yūji Hosono	17,161	9.0
JCP	Hiroshi Nishimura	13,184	6.9

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Yoshirō Mori	123,490	50.2
	DPJ (PNP)	Mieko Tanaka (elected by PR)	119,021	48.4
	HRP	Satoshi Miyamoto	3,467	1.4
Turnout			250,019	78.8

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshirō Mori	129,785	57.6
	DPJ	Yasuo Ichikawa	83,905	37.3
	JCP	Hiroshi Nishimura	11,515	5.1
Turnout			230,315	73.3

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshirō Mori	114,541	55.6
	DPJ	Yasuo Ichikawa (elected by PR)	82,069	39.8
	JCP	Hiroshi Nishimura	9,342	4.5
Turnout			210,585	67.6

2000^[6]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Yoshirō Mori	142,457	64.4
LP	Yasuo Ichikawa (elected by PR)	67,756	30.6
JCP	Hiroshi Nishimura	10,859	4.9

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshirō Mori	105,586	51.7
	NFP	Yasuo Ichikawa (elected by PR)	80,534	39.4
	JCP	Hiroshi Nishimura	10,467	5.1
	Independent	Shigeichi Morohashi	7,793	3.8
Turnout			209,978	71.7

References

↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24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
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　石川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.
↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 石川2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-11. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 石川2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-11. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 石川2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-11. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 石川2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-11. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 石川2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-11. External link in |work= (help)

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaidō proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tōhoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakantō proportional representation block - 20 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

Minamikantō proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 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

Hokurikushin'etsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tōkai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 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 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chūgoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyūshū proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Ōita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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