Ishikawa 2nd district

Ishikawa 2nd district (石川[県第]2区, Ishikawa-[ken-dai-]ni-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in Southern Ishikawa Prefecture and covers the cities of Komatsu, Kaga, Nomi, Hakusan, Nonoichi and the town of Kawakita (the one remaining municipality of Nomi District).

Ishikawa 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Representatives
Numbered map of Ishikawa Prefecture single-member districts
Electorate325,277 (as of September 1, 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Number of members1
PartyLDP
RepresentativeHajime Sasaki

The district's first representative after the electoral reform of the 1990s was Liberal Democrat Yoshirō Mori (Machimura faction) who had represented the pre-reform three-member Ishikawa 1st district since 1969. In April 2000, Mori was elected LDP president uncontested to replace Keizō Obuchi who had suffered an eventually fatal stroke, but resigned after one year. In the 2009 election when the LDP-led coalition lost its majority, Mori narrowly defended his district against Democratic newcomer Mieko Tanaka. In previous elections, Mori's main challenger had been reformist conservative former Liberal Democratic prefectural assemblyman Yasuo Ichikawa (LDP→JRP→NFP→LP→DPJ) who was elected in the proportional representation bloc three times and went on to become Councillor for Ishikawa in 2007.

In 2012, Mori retired. His son and former secretary Yūki Mori had resigned from his prefectural assembly seat in 2010 over a car accident under the influence. He died in 2011. The LDP candidacy in Ishikawa 2nd district went to political newcomer Hajime Sasaki, a former director of a building management company from Nomi City. Sasaki safely held the seat for the LDP.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Yoshirō Mori LDP 1996–2012 Retired
Hajime Sasaki LDP 2012– Incumbent

Election results
2021
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP (Kōmeitō) Hajime Sasaki 137,032 78.43
JCP Hiroshi Sakamoto 27,049 15.48
Independent Yasuhiko Yamamoto 10,632 6.09
2012[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP (Kōmeitō, NRP) Hajime Sasaki 123,283 64.5
DPJ (PNP) Keiko Miyamoto 37,601 19.7
SDP Yūji Hosono 17,161 9.0
JCP Hiroshi Nishimura 13,184 6.9
2009[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP (Kōmeitō) Yoshirō Mori 123,490 50.2
DPJ (PNP) Mieko Tanaka (elected by PR) 119,021 48.4
HRP Satoshi Miyamoto 3,467 1.4
Turnout 250,019 78.8
2005[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yoshirō Mori 129,785 57.6
DPJ Yasuo Ichikawa 83,905 37.3
JCP Hiroshi Nishimura 11,515 5.1
Turnout 230,315 73.3
2003[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yoshirō Mori 114,541 55.6
DPJ Yasuo Ichikawa (elected by PR) 82,069 39.8
JCP Hiroshi Nishimura 9,342 4.5
Turnout 210,585 67.6
2000[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yoshirō Mori 142,457 64.4
LP Yasuo Ichikawa (elected by PR) 67,756 30.6
JCP Hiroshi Nishimura 10,859 4.9
1996[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yoshirō Mori 105,586 51.7
NFP Yasuo Ichikawa (elected by PR) 80,534 39.4
JCP Hiroshi Nishimura 10,467 5.1
Independent Shigeichi Morohashi 7,793 3.8
Turnout 209,978 71.7

References
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  2. 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 石川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.
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