# Shiga 2nd district

Shiga 2nd district (Shiga[-ken dai-]ni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Japanese National Diet, located in Eastern Shiga Prefecture.
Shiga 2nd district was initially won by Masayoshi Takemura of New Party Harbinger (NPH), the former three-term governor of Shiga who had represented the five-member Shiga at-large district before the electoral reform since 1986 and was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the anti-LDP coalition Hosokawa Cabinet and Minister of Finance in the LDP-JSP-NPH Murayama Cabinet. In the 2000 Representatives election, he ran as an independent with Democratic Party support and lost to Liberal Democrat Akira Konishi. Konishi died in 2001, the resulting by-election was won by his younger brother Osamu. However, in the general House of Representatives election of 2003, Democrat Issei Tajima narrowly beat Konishi who won a seat in the proportional vote. In the "postal election" of 2005, Tajima defended the seat as Konishi ran as independent postal privatization rebel and the LDP sent "assassin" candidate Yūji Fujii. Fujii won a proportional seat in 2005, but lost it in 2009 as Tajima won the district race by a large margin; in 2010, Fujii was elected mayor of Nagahama City. In the 2012 House of Representatives election, Ken'ichirō Ueno who had represented the 1st district for the Liberal Democrats between 2005 and 2009 moved to the 2nd district and beat Tajima.

## Area

* Hikone
* Nagahama
* Ōmihachiman
* Higashiōmi
* Maibara
* Gamō District
* Echi District
* Inukami District
In the 2002 reapportionment Shiga gained a seat and the southern portion of the 2nd district was transferred to the newly created Shiga 4th district. In the 2022 reapportionment, the 4th district was abolished, thus the current 2nd district has similar borders to when it was created in 1994. The smaller 2nd district had 264,168 eligible voters in 2012.

## List of representatives

| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes |
| Masayoshi Takemura | NPH | 1996–2000 | Left NPH in 1998 |
| Akira Konishi | LDP | 2000–2001 | Died in office |
| Osamu Konishi | LDP | 2001–2003 | |
| Issei Tajima | DPJ | 2003–2012 | |
| Ken'ichirō Ueno | LDP | 2012– | Incumbent |

## Election results

2021 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | LDP | Ken'ichirō Ueno | 83,502 | 56.6 | 6.1 |
| | CDP | Issei Tajima | 64,119 | 43.4 | 3.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 56.93 | 1,13 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2017 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | LDP | Ken'ichirō Ueno | 73,694 | 50.5 | 1.7 |
| | Kibō no Tō | Issei Tajima | 58,718 | 40.2 | |
| | Independent | Jishō Taigetsu | 11,073 | 7.6 | |
| | HRP | Masashi Arakawa | 2,576 | 1.8 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 55.80 | 4.09 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2014 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | LDP | Ken'ichirō Ueno | 65,102 | 48.8 | 5.5 |
| | Democratic | Issei Tajima (elected by PR) | 54,095 | 40.6 | 9.1 |
| | JCP | Mutsuko Nakagawa | 14,163 | 10.6 | 2.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 51.71 | 8.35 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2012 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| LDP (NK) | Ken'ichirō Ueno | 67,182 | 43.3 |
| DPJ (PNP) | Issei Tajima | 48,924 | 31.5 |
| YP (JRP) | Yoshiyuki Yoichi | 26,978 | 17.4 |
| JCP | Mutsuko Nakagawa | 12,084 | 7.8 |
2009 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPJ (PNP) | Issei Tajima | 109,885 | 61.0 |
| | LDP (NK) | Yūji Fujii | 66,959 | 37.2 |
| | HRP | Nobutaka Ikeda | 3,205 | 1.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 183,270 | 69.71 |
2005 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPJ | Issei Tajima | 67,481 | 38.5 |
| | LDP | Yūji Fujii (won Kinki PR seat) | 54,067 | 30.8 |
| | Independent | Osamu Konishi | 43,416 | 24.8 |
| | JCP | Kazuyo Maruoka | 10,413 | 5.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 177,450 | 68.36 |
2003 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPJ | Issei Tajima | 69,620 | 44.9 |
| | LDP | Osamu Konishi (won Kinki PR seat) | 65,033 | 41.9 |
| | Independent | Ryūji Kawashima | 11,814 | 7.6 |
| | JCP | Shin'ichi Sakai | 8,741 | 5.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 157,333 | 61.11 |
October 28, 2001 by-election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| LDP | Osamu Konishi | 99,572 | 52.0 |
| DPJ | Issei Tajima | 76,154 | 39.8 |
| JCP | Etsuko Narumiya | 15,765 | 8.2 |
2000 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| LDP | Akira Konishi | 125,625 | 45.7 |
| Independent (DPJ) | Masayoshi Takemura | 115,322 | 42.0 |
| JCP | Akihiko Hiyama | 33,660 | 12.3 |
1996 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | NPH | Masayoshi Takemura | 107,053 | 43.0 |
| | LDP | Akira Konishi | 79,136 | 31.8 |
| | NFP | Tsutomu Matsumura | 35,192 | 14.1 |
| | JCP | Kan Kikuchi | 27,595 | 11.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 254,262 | 62.65 |