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
Electorate288,070 (2016)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartySocial Democratic Party
RepresentativeKantoku Teruya
Created fromOkinawa's at-large "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesUrasoe, Ginowan and Nakagami District

The district has been represented by Kantoku Teruya of the Social Democratic Party since 2003. Teruya is the only SDP politician in the country to currently hold a single-seat constituency.

Background

The district has been considered a stronghold for veteran Social Democrat Kantoku Teruya, who has held the district continuously since 2003. 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]

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

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates
Seiji Nakamura NFP 1996
LDP 1996 – 2003
Kantoku Teruya SDP 2003 –

Election results
2017[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya 92,143 58.94 3.25
Liberal Democratic 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[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by JCP, PLP, OSMP, the Greens and Shinfūkai) 85,781 62.19 13.18
Liberal Democratic 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[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya 73,498 49.01 12.09
Liberal Democratic 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[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by OSMP) 101,820 61.10 14.40
Liberal Democratic 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[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by OSMP) 71,861 46.70
Liberal Democratic Osamu Ashitomi (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP) 60,540 39.34
Independent Noboru Shimajiri 14,617 9.50
Communist 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
Liberal Democratic Yoshiji Uehara (endorsed by NKP and NCP) 47,759 35.7
Communist Norio Maemiya 6,560 4.9
Independent Kunio Kinjō 5,297 4.0
Social Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing
2000
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democratic 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
Communist 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
Liberal Democratic Kunio Kinjō 18,142 11.3
New Party Sakigake Jinichirō Asato (endorsed by DPJ) 5,801 3.6

References
  1. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (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. 小選挙区開票速報：沖縄県（定数4） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 小選挙区開票結果ー沖縄県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  8. 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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