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Okinawa 2nd district

Okinawa 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Okinawa Prefecture and encompasses the cities of Urasoe and Ginowan, and Nakagami District. As of 2016, 288,070 eligible voters were registered in the district.

Okinawa 2nd District
Parliamentary constituencyfor the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Okinawa Prefecture single-member districts
Okinawa
Kyushu
294,848 (2021)
1994
One
LDP
Masahisa Miyazaki
Okinawa's at-large "medium-sized" district
Urasoe, Ginowan and Nakagami District

Okinawa 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Okinawa Prefecture and encompasses the cities of Urasoe and Ginowan, and Nakagami District. As of 2016, 288,070 eligible voters were registered in the district.

The district was considered a stronghold for veteran Social Democrat Kantoku Teruya, who held the district continuously from 2003 to 2021. Such is the strength of the SDP vote in the district that during the LDP landslides in 2005 and 2012, Teruya still managed to hold the district comfortably. The significant presence of US military bases in Ginowan is regarded as a major factor contributing to the wide aversion of the local population to voting LDP candidates, who are typically pro-base.

Okinawa-2nd is one of the few districts that the JCP regularly skips from contesting. The party continuously endorsed Teruya in each election from 2009. Other centre-left parties also generally refrained from contesting the district and regularly backed Teruya in general elections.

Teruya retired before the 2021 elections but Kunio Arakaki, the former mayor of Kitanakagusuku, managed to hold the seat for the SDP. When Arakaki left the SDP in November of 2025, the party lost its last single-seat constituency in the Diet.

Representative	Party	Dates
Seiji Nakamura		NFP	1996
	LDP	1996 – 2003
Kantoku Teruya		SDP	2003 – 2021
Kunio Arakaki		SDP	2021 – 2026
Masahisa Miyazaki		LDP	2026 –

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	LDP	71,071	43.2	10.7
	Centrist Reform	57,500	35.0
	Sanseitō	19,333	11.8	3.7
	Social Democratic	14,311	8.7	33.3
	Independent	2,140	1.3	0.3
296,430
	56.72	6.29
	LDP gain from Social Democratic

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	61,216	42.03	5.36
	LDP	47,272	32.46	8.50
	Ishin	22,959	15.76	6.05
	Sanseitō	11,813	8.11	New
	Independent	2,374	1.63	New
145,634	50.43	4.39
	Social Democratic hold

Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Social Democratic	74,665	47.39	11.55
LDP	64,542	40.96	0.10
Ishin	15,296	9.71
Anti-NHK	3,053	1.94
54.82	1.24
Social Democratic hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	92,143	58.94	3.25
	LDP	64,193	41.06	3.25
27,950	17.88
	56.06	4.48
	Social Democratic hold	3.25

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	85,781	62.19	13.18
	LDP	52,156	37.81	0.89
33,625	34.38
	51.58
	Social Democratic hold	6.15

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	73,498	49.01	12.09
	LDP	55,373	36.92	3.45
	Restoration	19,551	13.04	N/A
	Independent	1,556	1.04	N/A
18,125	12.09

	Social Democratic hold	7.77

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	101,820	61.10	14.40
	LDP	60,773	36.47	2.87
	Happiness Realization	4,044	2.43	N/A
41,047	24.67
	Social Democratic hold	8.64

Candidate	Votes	%
Social Democratic	71,861	46.70
LDP	60,540	39.34
Independent	14,617	9.50
JCP	6,875	4.47
Social Democratic hold

Candidate	Votes	%
Social Democratic	74,123	55.4
LDP	47,759	35.7
JCP	6,560	4.9
Independent	5,297	4.0
Social Democratic gain from LDP

Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	88,544	49.3
Democratic	30,970	17.3
Liberal League	30,946	17.2
JCP	29,039	16.2

Candidate	Votes	%
New Frontier	66,421	41.3
Okinawa Social Mass	51,689	32.2
Liberal League	18,696	11.6
LDP	18,142	11.3
NP-Sakigake	5,801	3.6

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