Kumamoto 2nd District(熊本県第2区, Kumamoto-ken dai-ni-ku; or 熊本2区 Kumamoto ni-ku) is a current single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Kumamoto and covers South Ward (Minami-ku) and West Ward (Nishi-ku) of the prefectural capital Kumamoto City, the cities of Arao and Tamana and the Tamana District (the towns of Nagasu, Nankan, Nagomi and Gyokutō). As of September 2022, 313,172 eligible voters were resident in the district.

Before 1996, the area had been part of the five-member Kumamoto 1st district. Liberal Democrat Takeshi Noda, had represented the pre-reform 1st district since 1972 when he succeeded his deceased father-in-law Takeo Noda.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Takeshi NodaNFP1996 – 2000Joined LP in the NFP dissolution, CP in the LP split
NCP2000 – 2003Did not join the NCP, but returned directly to the LDP; alternating LDP candidacy (Costa Rica method) in the district with Hayashida, re-elected by PR (Kyūshū) in 2003
Takeshi HayashidaLDP2003 – 2005Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2005 and re-elected
Takeshi NodaLDP2005 – 2009Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2009 and re-elected
Ken'ichirō FukushimaDPJ2009 – 2012Joined LF, then TPJ in 2012, failed re-election by PR
Takeshi NodaLDP2012– 2021Defeated in the 2021 general election
Daisuke NishinoIndep.2021Joined the LDP in 2021
LDP2021 –

Election results

2026
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPDaisuke Nishino115,58371.52.2
SanseitōTomonori Maeda31,01919.21.7
JCPMakiko Masuda15,1659.43.8
Turnout54.904.80
LDP hold
2024
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPDaisuke Nishino102,62469.38.7
SanseitōAkane Konda25,94417.5New
JCPKonomi Okuda19,46913.26.9
Turnout50.108.57
LDP hold
2021
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
IndependentDaisuke Nishino110,31060.626.1
LDPTakeshi Noda60,09133.014.5
JCPYoshiaki Hashida11,5216.3
Turnout58.670.14
Independent gain from LDP
2017
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPTakeshi Noda86,02747.523.9
IndependentDaisuke Nishino62,57534.5
Social DemocraticKaname Wada26,07414.4
Happiness RealizationJunko Kinoshita6,4953.6
Turnout58.5312.51
LDP hold
2014
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPTakeshi Noda92,87371.618.1
JCPYumi Hirose36,76928.424.6
Turnout303,27246.0210.44
LDP hold
2012
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPTakeshi Noda88,74453.5former
YourAkiko Honda33,28320.1new
DemocraticDaizō Hamada25,89115.6new
TomorrowKen'ichirō Fukushima11,5206.9−43.5
JCPKunio Matsuyama6,3583.8new
Turnout56.46
LDP gain from Democratic
2009
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DemocraticKen'ichirō Fukushima104,87650.4new
LDPTakeshi Hayashida99,93348.0former
Happiness RealizationKen'ichi Magōri3,3541.6new
Turnout
Democratic gain from LDP
2005
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPTakeshi Noda112,54955.8former
DemocraticNobuo Matsuno79,79339.6−2.2
JCPTetsuo Ueno9,4324.7new
Turnout
LDP hold
2003
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPTakeshi Hayashida95,23352.7former
DemocraticNobuo Matsuno (won PR seat)75,51741.8+13.0
JCPMasaharu Maeda9,8295.4new
Turnout
LDP gain from New Conservative
2000
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New ConservativeTakeshi Noda106,12960.4+10.2
DemocraticNobuo Matsuno50,60428.8new
JCPNobuhiro Yamamoto11,6446.6new
Liberal LeagueKayoko Takano7,3754.2new
Turnout
New Conservative gain from New Frontier
1996
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New FrontierTakeshi Noda97,242.99350.2N/A
LDPTakeshi Hayashida79,249.99740.9N/A
JCPTakehiro Tateishi8,983.0004.6N/A
New SocialistTakashi Kurihara8,393.0004.3N/A
Turnout
New Frontier win (new seat)

Note: The decimals stem from anbunhyō ("proportional fractional votes"), see Elections in Japan#Ballots, voting machines and early voting. As Takeshi (彪) Hayashida and Takeshi (毅) Noda have different Kanji for their given names, some voters must have voted for just "Takeshi" in Kana for the votes to be ambiguous.