# Kyoto 2nd district

Kyōto 2nd district (京都府第2区 Kyōto-fu dai-ni-ku or simply 京都2区 Kyōto niku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in central Kyoto and consists of the Kyoto city wards of Sakyō, Higashiyama and Yamashina. As of 2012, 267,926 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area formed part of Kyoto 1st district where five representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote (SNTV).
Kyoto had been a traditional stronghold of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), but following the electoral reform that replaced the SNTV multi-member districts with FPTP single-member districts, the JCP could only win the new Kyoto 3rd district while losing the other three districts in Kyoto city (Kyoto 1, 2 and 4) in the 1996 general election, the first under the new system. In the 2nd district JCP newcomer Satoshi Inoue lost narrowly to Liberal Democrat Mikio Okuda, who had previously represented the old multi-member 1st district. Democrat Seiji Maehara ranked third, but won a seat via the Kinki PR block. After the main opposition New Frontier Party had dissolved and its successor groups had mainly been absorbed by the Democratic Party, Maehara won Kyoto 2 in the 2000 general election and has held onto the seat since. Maehara went on to become Democratic Party president in 2005, but resigned following the Livedoor scandal in 2006 and later was a minister of state in the Democratic-led Hatoyama and Kan cabinets.

## Areas covered
### Current district

As of 5 January 2023, the areas covered by this district are as follows:
* Kyoto
** Sakyō-ku
** Higashiyama-ku
** Yamashina-ku

## List of representatives

| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes |
| Mikio Okuda | LDP | 1996–2000 | Retired from politics in 2000 |
| Seiji Maehara | DPJ | 2000–2016 | Incumbent |
| Seiji Maehara | DP | 2016–2017 | Incumbent |
| Seiji Maehara | Ind. | 2017 | Incumbent |
| Seiji Maehara | Kibō | 2017–2018 | Incumbent |
| Seiji Maehara | DPP | 2018–2023 | Incumbent |
| Seiji Maehara | FEFA | 2023–2024 | Incumbent |
| Seiji Maehara | Ishin | 2024–present | Incumbent |

## Election results

2024 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Ishin | Seiji Maehara | 60,922 | 45.9 | |
| | JCP | Akiko Horikawa (Won PR seat) | 30,697 | 23.1 | 6.1 |
| | LDP | Eiji Sano | 29,638 | 22.3 | 6.9 |
| | Sanseitō | Hiroaki Komatsu | 8,270 | 6.2 | |
| | Independent | Yūsuke Honda | 2,450 | 1.8 | |
| | Independent | Tetsuo Hirota | 851 | 0.6 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 257,842 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 53.05 | 3.09 |
2021 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | DPP | Seiji Maehara | 72,516 | 48.89 | 0.2 |
| | LDP | Mamoru Shigemoto | 43,291 | 29.19 | 0.8 |
| | JCP | Takuaki Chisaka | 25,260 | 17.03 | 4.3 |
| | Reiwa | Tatsuya Naka | 7,263 | 4.90 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 57.14 | 1.21 |
2017 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Independent | Seiji Maehara | 65,480 | 48.7 |
| LDP | Mamoru Shigemoto | 40,336 | 30.0 |
| JCP | Takuaki Chisaka | 28,600 | 21.28 |
2014 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| DPJ | Seiji Maehara | 66,227 | 50.4 |
| LDP | Kōji Uenaka | 37,180 | 28.3 |
| JCP | Toshifumi Hara | 27,888 | 21.2 |
2012 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| DPJ – PNP | Seiji Maehara | 72,170 | 49.4 |
| LDP | Kōji Uenaka | 42,017 | 28.7 |
| JCP | Toshifumi Hara | 24,633 | 16.8 |
| SDP | Dai Satō | 7,416 | 5.1 |
2009 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPJ (PNP support) | Seiji Maehara | 101,151 | |
| | LDP | Tomohiro Yamamoto | 42,771 | |
| | JCP | Toshifumi Hara | 25,856 | |
| | SDP | Takakage Fujita | 5,028 | |
| | HRP | Yoshiteru Karube | 1,045 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 178,905 | 66.31 |
2005 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPJ | Seiji Maehara | 73,795 | |
| | LDP | Tomohiro Yamamoto (elected by PR) | 69,330 | |
| | JCP | Toshifumi Hara | 29,348 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 175,879 | 64.5 |
2003 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPJ | Seiji Maehara | 73,934 | |
| | LDP | Naohiko Yamamoto | 47,962 | |
| | JCP | Toshifumi Hara | 26,768 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 151,842 | 55.37 |
2000 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| DPJ | Seiji Maehara | 52,077 |
| LDP | Naohiko Yamamoto | 48,057 |
| JCP | Satoshi Inoue | 41,541 |
| LP | Tōru Taniguchi | 11,296 |
| LL | Masae Toita | 2,691 |
1996 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Mikio Okuda | 43,060 | |
| | JCP | Satoshi Inoue | 42,211 | |
| | DPJ | Seiji Maehara (elected by PR) | 31,257 | |
| | NFP | Kenji Hishida | 30,713 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 150,165 | 54.75 |