Shizuoka 2nd district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the

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. The district is located in

Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...

, and covers the cities of Shimada, Yaizu,

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and Makinohara as well as the district of Haibara. As of 2022, the district was home to 378,801 constituents. Before 1996, the area had been part of the five-member Shizuoka 1st district. The first representative Shōgō Harada had represented the pre-reform 1st district since 1976. He was later succeeded by his son

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. The district is currently represented by Tatsunori Ibayashi of the Liberal Democratic Party.

List of representatives

References

{{coord missing, Shizuoka Prefecture House of Representatives (Japan) districts in Shizuoka Prefecture Constituencies established in 1994 1994 establishments in Japan Shimada, Shizuoka Fujieda, Shizuoka Yaizu, Shizuoka Makinohara, Shizuoka