Shiga 2nd district (''Shiga ken dai-i-ku'') is a single-member electoral district for the

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, the lower house of the

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. It covers Northeastern

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, today namely the cities of

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, Nagahama, Maibara, the dissolved towns of Aitō and Kotō in present-day

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City and the former counties of Echi and Inukami. The district borders were redrawn in the 2002 redistricting and reapportionment, before that it had reached further to the South and covered Yōkaichi and Ōmihachiman cities and all of Echi, Kanzaki and Gamō counties. As of 2012, 264,168 voters resided in the district.Ministry of general affairs
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/ref> Shiga 2nd district was initially won by

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(NPH), the former three-term governor of Shiga who had represented the five-member

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before the electoral reform since 1986 and was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the anti-LDP coalition

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and Minister of Finance in the LDP-JSP-NPH

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. In the 2000 Representatives election, he ran as an independent with

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support and lost to Liberal Democrat

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. Konishi died in 2001, the resulting by-election was won by his younger brother Osamu. But in the general House of Representatives election of 2003, Democrat

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narrowly beat Konishi who won a seat in the proportional vote. In the "postal election" of 2005, Tajima defended the seat as Konishi ran as independent postal privatization rebel and the LDP sent "assassin" candidate

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. Fujii won a proportional seat in 2005, but lost it in 2009 as Tajima won the district race by a large margin; in 2010, Fujii was elected mayor of Nagahama City. In the 2012 House of Representatives election,

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who had represented the 1st district for the Liberal Democrats between 2005 and 2009 moved to the 2nd district and beat Tajima.

List of representatives

Election results

References

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