| Kumamoto 2nd District | |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Parl Name: | Japanese House of Representatives |
| District Label: | Prefecture |
| Region Label: | Proportional District |
| Region: | Kyushu |
| Electorate: | 313,172(as of September 2022)[1] |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Seats: | One |
| Party Label: | Party |
| Party: | Independent |
is a current single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Kumamoto and covers South Ward (Minami-ku) and West Ward (Nishi-ku) of the prefectural capital Kumamoto City, the cities of Arao and Tamana and the Tamana District (the towns of Nagasu, Nankan, Nagomi and Gyokutō). As of September 2022, 313,172 eligible voters were resident in the district.[2]
Before 1996, the area had been part of the five-member Kumamoto 1st district. Liberal Democrat Takeshi Noda, had represented the pre-reform 1st district since 1972 when he succeeded his deceased father-in-law Takeo Noda.
| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Takeshi Noda | bgcolor= | NFP | 1996–2000 | Joined LP in the NFP dissolution, CP in the LP split | ||
| bgcolor= | NCP | 2000–2003 | Did not join the NCP, but returned directly to the LDP; alternating LDP candidacy (Costa Rica method) in the district with Hayashida, re-elected by PR (Kyūshū) in 2003 | |||
| Takeshi Hayashida | bgcolor= | LDP | 2003–2005 | Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2005 and re-elected | ||
| Takeshi Noda | bgcolor= | LDP | 2005–2009 | Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2009 and re-elected | ||
| Ken'ichirō Fukushima | bgcolor= | DPJ | 2009–2012 | Joined LF, then TPJ in 2012, failed re-election by PR | ||
| Takeshi Noda | bgcolor= | LDP | 2012–2021 | Defeated in the 2021 general election | ||
| Daisuke Nishino | bgcolor= | Indep. | 2021– | Incumbent | ||
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 Kanji for their given names, some voters must have voted for just "Takeshi" in Kana for the votes to be ambiguous.