is a current single-member electoral district for the

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, the lower house of the

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. It is located in

Kumamoto is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 738,907 and a population density of 1,893 people per km2. The total area is 390.32 km2. had a population of 1,461,000, ...

and covers Western parts of the prefectural capital

(parts of Nishi-ku, shared with the 1st electoral district and parts of Minami-ku, shared with the 4th district), the cities of Arao and Tamana and the Tamana county with its remaining four municipalities, the towns of Nagasu, Nankan, Nagomi and Gyokutō. As of September 2012, 305,563 eligible voters were resident in the district. MIC
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Before 1996, the area had been part of the five-member Kumamoto 1st district. The current incumbent for the 2nd 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

Election results

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

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for their given names, some voters must have voted for just "Takeshi" in

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for the votes to be ambiguous.

References

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