Nara 2nd district

Nara 2nd district (奈良2区 Nara ni-ku, more formally 奈良県第2区 Nara-ken dai-ni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Northern Nara and covers the cities of Yamatokōriyama, Tenri, Ikoma, the former village of Tsuge in current Nara City and the former Yamabe and Ikoma counties, i.e. Yamazoe Village and the towns of Ando, Ikaruga, Sangō and Heguri. As of September 2012, 298,107 voters were registered district, giving its voters above average vote weight.^[1]

After the introduction of first-past-the-post single-member districts, Nara 2nd district was first represented by Liberal Democratic newcomer Makoto Taki. In 2003, he lost the district to Democrat Tetsuji Nakamura, but won a seat in the Kinki proportional representation block. Taki was a postal privatization rebel in 2005 and joined the New Party Nippon ("New Party Japan"). The 2nd district went to Liberal Democrat Sanae Takaichi who had been a member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003 (Nara At-large district as an independent in 1993, Nara 1st district for the New Frontier Party in 1996, Kinki PR block for the LDP in 2000). Taki only finished third, but again won a proportional seat – the only one of New Party Nippon's three seats in the country the party could hold. In 2009, Taki joined the Democratic Party and narrowly regained the 2nd district for the Democrats. Takaichi who had been a minister in the Abe cabinet remained Representative via the Kinki PR block. In 2012, Taki retired and Takaichi easily retook the district.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Makoto Taki	LDP	1996–2003	Re-elected in the Kinki PR block
Tetsuji Nakamura	DPJ	2003–2005	Failed re-election by PR
Sanae Takaichi	LDP	2005–2009	Re-elected by PR
Makoto Taki	DPJ	2009–2012	Retired
Sanae Takaichi	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Recent election results

2012^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP – Kōmeitō	Sanae Takaichi	86,747	46.7
JRP – YP	Ken Namikawa	45,014	24.2
DPJ – PNP	Takeru Hyakutake	22,321	12.0
TPJ – NPD	Tetsuji Nakamura	19,200	10.3
JCP	Akemi Nakano	12,444	6.7

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ – PNP	Makoto Taki	98,728	46.5
	LDP – Kōmeitō	Sanae Takaichi (elected by PR)	94,879	44.7
	JCP	Fumiko Nishi	15,626	7.4
	HRP	Takako Tanaka	2,971	1.4
Turnout			216,526	72.6

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Sanae Takaichi	92,096	44.5
	DPJ	Tetsuji Nakamura	72,074	34.8
	NPN	Makoto Taki (elected by PR)	29,995	14.5
	JCP	Akemi Nakano	12,657	6.1
Turnout			211,226	71.03

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Tetsuji Nakamura	83,168	48.4
	LDP	Makoto Taki (elected by PR)	73,646	42.9
	JCP	Jirō Miyamoto	15,044	8.8
Turnout			178,668	60.31

References

↑ Ministry of general affairs: 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　奈良. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-06.
↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 奈良2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp., originally JANJAN. Retrieved 2012-11-02. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 奈良2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-02. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 奈良2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 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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