Aomori 2nd district

Aomori 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Aomori Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Aomori
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	250,364 (2015)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Akinori Eto
Created from	Aomori's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Aomori's Towada, Misawa, and Mutsu cities, Kamikita and Shimokita districts, and the town of Gonohe within Sannohe District

Aomori 2nd district (青森県第2区, Aomori-ken dai-niku or simply 青森2区, Aomori-niku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in Northeastern Aomori and covers the prefecture's Towada, Misawa, and Mutsu cities, Kamikita and Shimokita districts, and the town of Gonohe within Sannohe District.

As of 2015, this district was home to 250,364 constituents, roughly half the number of Japan's largest district, Tokyo 1st district.^[2] The district is the northernmost Japanese House of Representatives district on Honshu.

Aomori is a so-called "Liberal Democratic kingdom," meaning that it frequently returns members of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party. The district's current representative, Akinori Eto, has represented the district continuously since 2003, one of few Liberal Democratic representatives not voted out of office during the Democratic Party of Japan's rapid rise to power during the 2009 general election. Eto served as Minister of Defense in 2014, during Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's 2nd cabinet rotation.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Akinori Eto	LDP	1996-2000	Lost re-election
Shingo Mimura	AI	2000–2003
Akinori Eto	LDP	2003–	Incumbent

Election Results

2014^[3]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Akinori Eto (endorsed by Komeito)	81,054	67.48
Innovation	Noriko Nakanowatari	28,282	23.55
Communist	Ryōko Ogasawara	10,775	8.97

2012^[4]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Akinori Eto (endorsed by Komeito	81,937	65.22
Democratic	Tomonobu Nakamura	18,836	14.99
Tomorrow	Noriko Nakanowatari	18,180	14.47
Communist	Ryōko Ogasawara	6,683	5.32

2009^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Akinori Eto (endorsed by Komeito)	86,654	54.0
Democratic	Noriko Nakanowatari (endorsed by PNP) (won in PR district	64,334	40.1
Independent	Hisako Kumagai	7,164	4.5
Happiness Realization	Kiyoshi Morimitsu	2,288	1.4

2005^[6]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Akinori Eto	89,887	58.26
Democratic	Tomonobu Nakamura	46,124	29.90
Social Democratic	Chiyoji Kinoshita	13,327	8.64
Communist	Toshimitsu Ichikawa	4,941	3.20

2003^[7]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Akinori Eto	96,784	75.07
Social Democratic	Kōichi Saitō	21,537	16.70
Communist	Shōko Kudō	10,605	8.22

2000^[8]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Assembly of Independents	Shingo Mimura (endorsed by LP)	80,338	46.9
Liberal Democratic	Akinori Eto (endorsed by NCP)	74,118	43.3
Social Democratic	Chiyoji Kinoshita	13,112	7.7
Communist	Naiki Kudō	3,645	2.1

1996^[9]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Akinori Eto	63,672	41.9
New Frontier	Shingo Mamura	62,907	41.4
Democratic	Tsutomu Herai	11,581	7.6
Social Democratic	Reiko Tatebe	8,705	5.7
Communist	Kazutaka Sōma	5,235	3.4

References

↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (Japanese)
↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (Japanese)
↑ Data Sets (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
↑ Data Sets (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
↑ Data Sets (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
↑ Data Sets (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
↑ Data Sets (in Japanese). Election.co.jp. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
↑ Election 2000 (in Japanese). Election.co.jp.
↑ 青森県 (in Japanese). Kunitaka Tanaka.

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 seats	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 seats	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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