is a single-member electoral district of the

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the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The district is in

Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto P ...

and covers most of the prefectural capital the city of

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(a small part of the city is in the

Kagoshima 2nd district is a single-member electoral district of the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The district covers two different parts of Kagoshima Prefecture. On the main island of Kyushu, ...

) and includes Kagoshima District which covers several small islands south of

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. In of 2021 the district had 358,559 eligible voters. The district was created following the

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. From the first elections in 1996 until 2009, the Representative was

Okiharu Yasuoka was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kagoshima Prefecture and graduate of Chuo University, he was elected to the House of Repre ...

who was first elected to the Diet in 1972 and was for a long time a Representative for an electoral district that covered the

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. In the DPJ victory in the

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the district was won by democrat

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, but Yasuoka won the district back in 2012. Yasuoka retired for health reasons in 2017 and his son Hirotake Yasuoka ran for his seat in 2017 but lost to Kawauchi. In 2021 Hirotake Yasuoka was put on a safe spot in the

Kyushu proportional representation block The Kyushu proportional representation block (九州比例ブロック, ''Kyūshū hirei burokku'') is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) blocks for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of the Kyushu region an ...

, where he gained a seat in the Diet, and was replaced by

Takuma Miyaji Takuma (written: 拓磨, 拓真, 拓馬, 琢磨, 匠馬, 卓磨, 卓真 or 卓馬) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese motorcycle racer *, Japanes ...

as the LDP candidate. Miyaji won the seat back in the 2021 election. Miyaji is the son of

Kazuaki Miyaji is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kawanabe District, Kagoshima and graduate of the University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or ...

, former Representative of the

Kagoshima 3rd district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Northern Kagoshima and consists of the cities of Akune, Izumi, Satsumasendai, Hioki, Ichikikushikino, Isa and Aira as well as the towns of Sat ...

and had first gained seat in the Diet in 2017 in the Kyushu PR block.

List of representatives

Election results

References

{{coord missing, Kagoshima Prefecture House of Representatives (Japan) districts in Kagoshima Prefecture 1994 establishments in Japan Constituencies established in 1994 Kagoshima