# 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).
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 | Party | Dates | Notes |
| Yoshirō Mori | | LDP | 1996–2012 | Retired |
| Hajime Sasaki | | LDP | 2012– | Incumbent |

## Election results

2024 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | LDP | Hajime Sasaki | 100,617 | 57.8 | |
| | CDP | Tsuneko Oyamada | 62,588 | 36.0 | |
| | JCP | Hiroshi Sakamoto | 10,873 | 6.2 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 321,957 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 56.14 | 0.01 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2021 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | LDP | Hajime Sasaki | 137,032 | 78.4 | |
| | JCP | Hiroshi Sakamoto | 27,049 | 15.5 | |
| | Independent | Yasuhiko Yamamoto | 10.632 | 6.1 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 325,273 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 56.13 | 3.64 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2017 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | LDP | Hajime Sasaki | 118,421 | 62.3 | |
| | Kibō no Tō | Miki Shibata | 58,164 | 30.6 | |
| | JCP | Masakazu Honda | 9,920 | 5.2 | |
| | Happiness Realization | Satoshi Miyamoto | 3,472 | 1.8 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 326,183 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 59.77 | 10.22 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2014 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Hajime Sasaki | 110,583 | 75.5 |
| | JCP | Hiroshi Nishimura | 30,889 | 21.1 |
| | Independent | Shigeru Hamasaki | 5,075 | 3.5 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 318,066 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 49.55 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2012 :
| 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 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | 250,019 | 78.8 |
2005 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | 230,315 | 73.3 |
2003 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | 210,585 | 67.6 |
2000 :
| 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 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | 209,978 | 71.7 |