Saitama 2nd district

Saitama 2nd district
Saitama 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Saitama Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Saitama
Proportional District	Northern Kanto
Electorate	390,882
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Liberal Democratic
Representative	Yoshitaka Shindō
Municipalities	Part of Kawaguchi.

PrefectureSaitama

Proportional DistrictNorthern Kanto

Electorate390,882^[1]

Created1994

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

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Election	Representative
1996^[9]	Katsuyuki Ishida [ja]	New Frontier
1996^[9]	Katsuyuki Ishida [ja]	Reform Club
2000^[10]	Yoshitaka Shindō	Liberal Democratic
2003^[11]	Katsuyuki Ishida [ja]	Democratic
2005^[12]	Yoshitaka Shindō	Liberal Democratic
2009^[13]	Katsuyuki Ishida [ja]	Democratic
2012^[14]	Yoshitaka Shindō	Liberal Democratic
2014^[15]
2017^[16]
2021^[17]
2024
2026

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Shindō	75,209	41.8	2.1
	DPP	Hayato Hosoya	45,521	25.3
	Sanseitō	Shizuka Kanno	31,075	17.3
	Ishin	Hideaki Takahashi	28,187	15.7	7.9
Registered electors			385,497
Turnout				49.40	0.94
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito)	Yoshitaka Shindo (incumbent)	72,467	39.68	13.10
	Innovation	Hideaki Takahashi (elected in N. Kanto PR)	43,164	23.64	1.25
	CDP	Matsuura Mototsugu	34,327	18.80	New
	Communist	Tomoko Okuda	23,317	12.77	9.56
	Independent	Daisaku Tsumura	9,348	5.12	New
Majority			29,303	16.04	11.85
Registered electors			388,634
Turnout			182,623	48.46	1.89
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito)	Yoshitaka Shindō (incumbent)	121,543	52.78
	Innovation	Hideaki Takahashi (elected in N. Kanto PR)	57,327	24.89	New
	Communist	Tomoko Okuda	51,420	22.33
Majority			64,216	27.89
Registered electors			470,538
Turnout				50.35	3.67
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito)	Yoshitaka Shindō (incumbent)	110,072	52.49
	Kibō no Tō	Katsumi Suga	64,783	30.89	New
	Communist	Michiya Hirakawa	34,846	16.62
Majority			45,289	21.60
Registered electors			462,995
Turnout				46.68	1.02
	LDP hold

Saitama 2nd district

since 2022

2017 - 2022

2013 - 2017

1994 - 2013

List of representatives

Election results

2026

2024

2021

2017

2014

2012

2009

2005

2003

2000

1996

References

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Saitama 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Saitama Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Saitama
Proportional District	Northern Kanto
Electorate	390,882^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Liberal Democratic
Representative	Yoshitaka Shindō
Municipalities	Part of Kawaguchi.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito)	Yoshitaka Shindō (incumbent)	128,938	64.79
	Communist	Tomoko Okuda	70,074	35.21
Majority			58,864	29.58
Registered electors			463,353
Turnout				45.66	9.04
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito)	Yoshitaka Shindō (PR seat incumbent)	112,484	46.57
	Your (endorsed by JRP)	Yoshikazu Matsumoto	53,604	22.19	New
	Democratic (endorsed by PNP)	Katsuyuki Ishida [ja] (incumbent)	50,711	21.00
	Communist	Tomoko Okuda	24,724	10.24
Majority			58,880	24.38
Registered electors			457,792
Turnout				54.70	8.70
	LDP gain from Democratic

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Katsuyuki Ishida [ja]	140,892	50.02
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Shindō (incumbent) (won PR seat)	112,920	40.09
	Communist	Masatsugu Muraoka	23,357	8.29
	Happiness Realization	Tsuyoshi Suzuki	4,484	1.59	New
Majority			27,972	9.93
Registered electors			452,200
Turnout				63.40	0.50
	Democratic gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Shindō	138,376	51.80
	Democratic	Katsuyuki Ishida [ja] (incumbent)	105,080	39.34
	Communist	Nobuhiro Ikeda	23,657	8.86
Majority			33,296	12.46
Registered electors			434,389
Turnout				62.90	9.39
	LDP gain from Democratic

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Katsuyuki Ishida [ja]	114,322	51.01
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Shindō (incumbent)	91,095	40.65
	Communist	Tomohiro Nagatsuka	18,706	8.35
Majority			23,227	10.36
Turnout				53.51	4.43
	Democratic gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Shindō (PR seat incumbent)	82,581	35.28
	Reform Club	Katsuyuki Ishida [ja] (incumbent)	79,555	33.99
	Democratic	Masanori Taniguchi	38,816	16.58
	Communist	Tomohiro Nagatsuka	33,096	14.14
Majority			3,026	1.29
Turnout				57.94	4.65
	LDP gain from Reform Club (Japan, 1988)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Katsuyuki Ishida [ja]	76,252	36.60	New
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Shindō (won PR seat)	75,642	36.31	New
	Communist	Takeshi Ishii	35,719	17.15	New
	Democratic	Hirotaka Maehara	17,329	8.32	New
	Liberal League	Masatoshi Tamura	2,486	1.19	New
	Independent	Tsuyoshi Sakai	896	0.43	New
Majority			610	0.29
Turnout				53.29
	New Frontier win (new seat)

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