Iwate 2nd district

Iwate 2nd District
Iwate 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Iwate Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Iwate
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	340,058
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Shun'ichi Suzuki

PrefectureIwate

Proportional DistrictTohoku

Electorate340,058

Created1994

Iwate 2nd district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the National Diet of Japan located in Iwate Prefecture. As of 2020, the district was home to 376,270 constituents.^[1]

The area was for a long time the location of the political support base of former prime minister Zenkō Suzuki and, for most of its existence, the 2nd district has been represented by his son Shun'ichi Suzuki, former Minister of Finance.^[2]

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Representative		Dates	Notes
Shun'ichi Suzuki	LDP	1996 – 2009	Lost re-election
Kōji Hata	DPJ	2009 – 2012	Won a seat in PR block
Shun'ichi Suzuki	LDP	2012 –

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Shun'ichi Suzuki	123,711	64.8	2.7
	Centrist Reform	Makoto Sasaki (Won a seat in the PR Block	67,294	35.2	2.7
Registered electors			340,058
Turnout			191,005	58.10	2.96
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Shun'ichi Suzuki	115,774	62.1	5.9
	CDP	Yukiko Nakamura	70,716	37.9	7.5
Registered electors			349,223
Turnout				55.14	5.14
	LDP hold

v t e Iwate's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 (4) PR part of the Tōhoku PR block (16→14→13→12 seats) House of Councillors At-large (4→3 Representatives, 2 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 (8→7 Representatives, 2 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (8 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 (7 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Morioka city counties (gunbu) (6 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 (5 Representatives)

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: Eisuke Mori, Chiba 11th Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Keiichi Ishii, Northern Kanto 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
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

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Iwate 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Iwate Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Iwate
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	340,058
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Shun'ichi Suzuki