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 1958 1960 1963 1967 1969 1972 1976 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1993 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 JSP 2 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 JCP 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 Seats up 3 5

Elected Representatives electionyear 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 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.)(re-)joined LDP after the election 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.)joined the "Non-partisan Club" (mutōha kurabu) parliamentary group with Kunio Hatoyama, Yoshikata Asō and others Shigeo Ōshiba (JSP) 1979 Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) Tetsu Ueda (JSP) Shintarō Ishihara (LDP) Keigo Ōuchi (DSP) Toshio Sakaki (JCP) 1980 Shintarō Ishihara (LDP) Keigo Ōuchi (DSP) Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) 1983 Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) Tetsu Ueda (JSP) Masuhide Okazaki (JCP) 1986 Shōkei Arai (LDP) Yasuo Suzukiri (Kōmeitō) 1990 Tetsu Ueda (JSP) Shōkei Arai (LDP) Keigo Ōuchi (DSP) Otohiko Endō (Kōmeitō) 1993 Keigo Ōuchi (DSP) Otohiko Endō (Kōmeitō) Noboru Usami (NPH)

Last election result 1993

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