# Tokyo 2nd district (1947–1993)

Tokyo 2nd district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). Between 1947 and 1993 it elected three, later five representatives by single non-transferable vote. It initially consisted of Shinagawa and Ōta in Eastern mainland Tokyo and, following their return from US military administration, Tokyo's Izu and Ogasawara islands. Since the election of 1996, the area forms the new single-member 3rd district.
Prominent representatives from the 2nd district included feminist pioneer Shizue Katō, her husband, labor activist Kanjū Katō, conservative environment and transport minister Shintarō Ishihara and DSP president Keigo Ōuchi.

## 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 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| | Opposition | center-left | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| | Opposition | JSP | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| | Opposition | JCP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Seats up | Seats up | Seats up | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |

## Elected Representatives

| election year | highest vote (top tōsen) | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
| 1947 | Komakichi Matsuoka (JSP) | Shizue Katō (JSP) | Yoshirō Kikuchi (JLP) | – | – |
| 1949 | Yoshirō Kikuchi (DLP) | Komakichi Matsuoka (JSP) | Kenichi Itō (JCP) | – | – |
| 1952 | Komakichi Matsuoka (JSP, right) | Tokuma Utsunomiya (LP) | Kanjū Katō (JSP, right) | – | – |
| 1953 | Kanjū Katō (JSP, right) | Yoshirō Kikuchi (Yoshida LP) | Tokuma Utsunomiya (Yoshida LP) | – | – |
| 1955 | Komakichi Matsuoka (JSP, right) | Yoshirō Kikuchi (JDP) | Tokuma Utsunomiya (JDP) | – | – |
| 1958 | Kanjū Katō (JSP) | Tokuma Utsunomiya (LDP) | Komakichi Matsuoka (JSP) | – | – |
| 1960 | Kanjū Katō (JSP) | Tokuma Utsunomiya (LDP) | Shigeo Ōshiba (JSP) | – | – |
| 1963 | Shigeo Ōshiba (JSP) | Yoshirō Kikuchi (LDP) | Tokuma Utsunomiya (LDP) | – | – |
| 1967 | Tokuma Utsunomiya (LDP) | Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) | Kanjū Katō (JSP) | – | – |
| 1969 | Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) | Tokuma Utsunomiya (LDP) | Itaru Yonehara (JCP) | Yoshirō Kikuchi (LDP) | Fumio Kawabata (DSP) |
| 1972 | Shintarō Ishihara (Indep.) | Itaru Yonehara (JCP) | Shigeo Ōshiba (JSP) | Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) | Tokuma Utsunomiya (LDP) |
| 1976 | Shintarō Ishihara (LDP) | Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) | Keigo Ōuchi (DSP) | Tokuma Utsunomiya (Indep.) | Shigeo Ōshiba (JSP) |
| 1979 | Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) | Tetsu Ueda (JSP) | Shintarō Ishihara (LDP) | Keigo Ōuchi (DSP) | Toshio Sakaki (JCP) |
| 1980 | Shintarō Ishihara (LDP) | Tetsu Ueda (JSP) | Keigo Ōuchi (DSP) | Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) | Toshio Sakaki (JCP) |
| 1983 | Shintarō Ishihara (LDP) | Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) | Keigo Ōuchi (DSP) | Tetsu Ueda (JSP) | Masuhide Okazaki (JCP) |
| 1986 | Shintarō Ishihara (LDP) | Shōkei Arai (LDP) | Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) | Tetsu Ueda (JSP) | Masuhide Okazaki (JCP) |
| 1990 | Shintarō Ishihara (LDP) | Tetsu Ueda (JSP) | Shōkei Arai (LDP) | Keigo Ōuchi (DSP) | Otohiko Endō (Kōmeitō) |
| 1993 | Shintarō Ishihara (LDP) | Keigo Ōuchi (DSP) | Shōkei Arai (LDP) | Otohiko Endō (Kōmeitō) | Noboru Usami (NPH) |

## Last election result 1993

1993 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Shintarō Ishihara | 92,259 | 19.0 |
| | DSP | Keigo Ōuchi | 73,314 | 15.1 |
| | LDP | Shōkei Arai | 72,059 | 14.8 |
| | Kōmeitō (lit. "Justice Party") | Otohiko Endō | 70,590 | 14.5 |
| | NPH | Noboru Usami | 62,188 | 12.8 |
| | JCP | Masuhide Okazaki | 57,346 | 11.8 |
| | JSP | Tetsu Ueda | 54,820 | 11.3 |
| | Independent | Kazumi Tokunaga | 2,540 | 0.5 |
| | Zatsumintō (lit. "Crude People's Party") | Hirokichi Takahashi | 348 | 0.1 |
| | Kokumintō (lit. "People's Party") | Tokuichi Nakamura | 335 | 0.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 489,555 | 60.45 |