Hiroshima 2nd district

Hiroshima 2nd district
Hiroshima 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of the Hiroshima Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Hiroshima
Proportional District	Chūgoku
Electorate	387,419
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Hiroshi Hiraguchi
Municipalities	Nishi-ku and Saeki-ku of Hiroshima, Hatsukaichi, and Ōtake.

PrefectureHiroshima

Proportional DistrictChūgoku

Electorate387,419^[1]

Created1994

Hiroshima 2nd district (広島県第2区, Hiroshima-ken dai-niku or simply 広島2区, Hiroshima-niku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Hiroshima Prefecture.

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Election	Representative
1996^[4]	Toshinobu Awaya	New Frontier
		Sun
		Good Governance
2000^[5]		AoI
2003^[6]	Daisuke Matsumoto	Democratic
2005^[7]	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	LDP
2009^[8]	Daisuke Matsumoto	Democratic
2012^[9]	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	LDP
2014^[10]
2017^[11]
2021^[12]
2024^[13]
2026^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	94,750	51.70
	DPP	Gen Fukuda	53,893	29.41
	Sanseitō	Yukiko Sato	20,123	10.98	New
	JCP	Hiromi Okada	14,510	7.92
Majority			40,857	22.29
Registered electors			384,853
Turnout				49.12	0.52
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	82,443	44.97
	DPP	Gen Fukuda (Won PR seat)	61,679	33.65	New
	Ishin	Masataka Kaneshiro	21,846	11.92	N/A
	JCP	Hiromi Okada	17,354	9.47	N/A
Majority			20,764	11.32
Registered electors			386,897
Turnout				48.60	2.88
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	133,126	65.24
	CDP	Akai Ōi	70,939	34.76	New
Majority			62,187	30.48
Registered electors			404,009
Turnout				51.48	0.70
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	96,718	47.89
	Kibō no Tō	Daisuke Matsumoto	68,309	33.82	New
	Ishin	Kana Haioka	18,128	8.98	New
	JCP	Satoshi Fujimoto	16,393	8.12
	Happiness Realization	Yoshihiro Mizuno	2,403	1.19	N/A
Majority			28,409	14.07
Registered electors			404,633
Turnout				50.78	0.34
	LDP hold

Hiroshima 2nd district

Since 2022

List of representatives

Election results

2026

2024

2021

2017

2014

2012

2009

2005

2003

2000

1996

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Hiroshima 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of the Hiroshima Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Hiroshima
Proportional District	Chūgoku
Electorate	387,419^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Hiroshi Hiraguchi
Municipalities	Nishi-ku and Saeki-ku of Hiroshima, Hatsukaichi, and Ōtake.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	102,719	52.21
	Democratic	Daisuke Matsumoto	77,234	39.26
	JCP	Satoshi Fujimoto	16,794	8.54
Majority			25,485	12.95
Registered electors			393,696
Turnout				51.12	6.23
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	109,823	49.74
	Democratic	Daisuke Matsumoto	61,373	27.80
	Restoration	Yasuhiro Tsuji	36,979	16.75	New
	JCP	Tatsuichi Nakamori	12,619	5.72	N/A
Majority			48,450	21.94
Registered electors			392,877
Turnout				57.35	11.54
	LDP gain from Democratic

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Daisuke Matsumoto	149,227	56.33
	LDP	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	110,238	41.61
	Happiness Realization	Kaori Miyauchi	5,458	2.06	New
Majority			38,989	14.72
Registered electors			390,965
Turnout				68.89
	Democratic gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	129,462	50.78
	Democratic	Daisuke Matsumoto (Won PR seat)	112,435	44.10
	JCP	Atsumi Takami	13,047	5.12
Majority			17,027	6.68
Registered electors
Turnout
	LDP gain from Democratic

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Daisuke Matsumoto	81,382	37.47	*New*
	Independents	Hiroshi Hiraguchi	61,472	28.30
	LDP	Hitoshi Hinokida	48,557	22.36
	Independent	Shigeru Oki	16,052	7.39	New
	JCP	Kazuo Ōkoshi	9,726	4.48
Majority			19,910	9.17
Registered electors
Turnout
	Democratic gain from Independents

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independents	Toshinobu Awaya	92,316	43.95	*New*
	LDP	Hitoshi Hinokida	80,198	38.18
	JCP	Satoshi Fujimoto	37,550	17.88
Majority			12,118	5.77
Registered electors
Turnout
	Independents hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Toshinobu Awaya	67,876	34.71	*New*
	LDP	Hitoshi Hinokida (Won PR seat)	60,968	31.18	New
	Social Democratic	Tadatoshi Akiba (Won PR seat)	48,142	24.62	New
	JCP	Teruko Makino	14,688	7.51	New
	New Socialist	Masatoshi Ito	3,862	1.98	New
Majority			6,908	3.53
Registered electors
Turnout
	New Frontier win (new seat)

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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
Former districts	Abolished in 2002 Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4 Abolished in 2013 Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3 Abolished in 2017 Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5 Abolished in 2022 Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4