# Kyoto 2nd district (1947–1993)

Kyōto 2nd district was a multi-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected five Representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was located in Kyōto and, as of 1993, consisted of Kyōto city's Ukyō, Fushimi and Nishikyō wards and all other cities, towns and villages in the prefecture.
Representatives for Kyōto 2nd district included Democratic Party president and prime minister Hitoshi Ashida, LDP faction leader, secretary general and justice minister Shigesaburō Maeo, education minister Sen'ichi Tanigaki and his son Sadakazu and home affairs minister Hiromu Nonaka. Since Kyoto was thea stronghold of the Communist Party, Kyoto's two electoral districts were among the few districts in the country where the JCP ever nominated more than one candidate – in its last such attempt in the 2nd district in the 1983 general election, both Communist candidates lost due to vote splitting.

## Summary of results during the 1955 party system

| General election | General election | General election | 1958 | 1960 | 1963 | 1967 | 1969 | 1972 | 1976 | 1979 | 1980 | 1983 | 1986 | 1990 | 1993 |
| | LDP & conservative independents | LDP & conservative independents | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| | Opposition | center-left | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| | Opposition | JSP | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | Opposition | JCP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Seats up | Seats up | Seats up | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |

## Elected Representatives

| election year | highest vote (top tōsen) | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
| 1947 | Hitoshi Ashida (DP) | Tenrei Ōta (JSP) | Takeo Nonaka (JLP) | Yoshie Ōishi (JSP) | Takezō Okumura (JLP) |
| 1949 | Hitoshi Ashida (DP) | Yoshie Ōishi (SRP) | Shigesaburō Maeo (DLP) | Takeo Nonaka (DLP) | Kenji Kawada (JCP) |
| 1952 | Hitoshi Ashida (Progressive) | Hidekazu Yanagita (left JSP) | Shigesaburō Maeo (LP) | Yoshie Ōishi (Coop) | Takeo Nonaka (LP) |
| 1953 | Kō Tanaka (Yoshida LP) | Hitoshi Ashida (Progressive) | Shigesaburō Maeo (Yoshida LP) | Hidekazu Yanagita (left JSP) | Yoshie Ōishi (right JSP) |
| 1955 | Hitoshi Ashida (JDP) | Shigesaburō Maeo (LP) | Ryūichi Okamoto (left JSP) | Suegorō Kawasaki (JDP) | Hidekazu Yanagita (left JSP) |
| 1958 | Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) | Hidekazu Yanagita (JSP) | Hitoshi Ashida (LDP) | Ryūichi Okamoto (JSP) | Suegorō Kawasaki (LDP) |
| 1960 | Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) | Hidekazu Yanagita (JSP) | Ryūichi Okamoto (JSP) | Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) | Ittoku Tamaki (DSP) |
| 1963 | Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) | Ittoku Tamaki (DSP) | Ryūichi Okamoto (JSP) | Hidekazu Yanagita (JSP) | Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) |
| 1967 | Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) | Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) | Hidekazu Yanagita (JSP) | Ittoku Tamaki (DSP) | Ryūichi Okamoto (JSP) |
| 1969 | Iwao Teramae (JCP) | Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) | Hidekazu Yanagita (JSP) | Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) | Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) |
| 1972 | Yoshiharu Yamada (JSP) | Iwao Teramae (JCP) | Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) | Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) | Ittoku Tamaki (DSP) |
| 1976 | Iwao Teramae (JCP) | Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) | Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) | Yoshiharu Yamada (JSP) | Ittoku Tamaki (DSP) |
| 1979 by-el. (two seats up) | Iwao Teramae (JCP) | Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) | Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) | Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) | Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) |
| 1979 | Iwao Teramae (JCP) | Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) | Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) | Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) | Yoshiharu Yamada (JSP) |
| 1980 | Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) | Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) | Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) | Iwao Teramae (JCP) | Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) |
| 1983 by-el. (two seats up) | Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP) | Hiromu Nonaka (LDP) | Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) | Iwao Teramae (JCP) | Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) |
| 1983 | Hiromu Nonaka (LDP) | Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP) | Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) | Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) | Sueharu Yamanaka (JSP) |
| 1986 | Iwao Teramae (JCP) | Hiromu Nonaka (LDP) | Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP) | Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) | Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) |
| 1990 | Sueharu Yamanaka (JSP) | Hiromu Nonaka (LDP) | Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP) | Iwao Teramae (JCP) | Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) |
| 1993 | Iwao Teramae (JCP) | Hiromu Nonaka (LDP) | Yasuhide Yamana (Kōmeitō) | Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP) | Juntarō Toyoda (JRP) |

## Last election result 1993

1993 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | JCP | Iwao Teramae | 155,958 | 18.5 |
| | LDP | Hiromu Nonaka | 129,402 | 15.4 |
| | Kōmeitō | Yasuhide Yamana | 118,882 | 14.1 |
| | LDP | Sadakazu Tanigaki | 118,019 | 14.0 |
| | Shinseito | Juntarō Toyoda | 115,142 | 13.7 |
| | Democratic Socialist | Kazuya Tamaki | 111,206 | 13.2 |
| | Socialist | Isoo Tabuchi | 86,079 | 10.2 |
| | Independent | Jun'ichi Ono | 6,696 | 0.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 855,720 | 64.79 |