Kyōto 2nd district was a multi-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected five Representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was located in Kyōto and, as of 1993, consisted of Kyōto city's Ukyō, Fushimi and Nishikyō wards and all other cities, towns and villages in the prefecture.
Representatives for Kyōto 2nd district included Democratic Party president and prime minister Hitoshi Ashida, LDP faction leader, secretary general and justice minister Shigesaburō Maeo, education minister Sen'ichi Tanigaki and his son Sadakazu and home affairs minister Hiromu Nonaka. Since Kyoto was thea stronghold of the Communist Party, Kyoto's two electoral districts were among the few districts in the country where the JCP ever nominated more than one candidate – in its last such attempt in the 2nd district in the 1983 general election, both Communist candidates lost due to vote splitting.
Summary of results during the 1955 party system General election 1958 1960 1963 1967 1969 1972 1976 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1993 LDP & conservative independents 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 Opposition center-left 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 JSP 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 JCP 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 Seats up 5
Elected Representatives electionyear highest vote(top tōsen) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 1947 Hitoshi Ashida (DP) Tenrei Ōta (JSP) Takeo Nonaka (JLP) Yoshie Ōishi (JSP) Takezō Okumura (JLP) 1949 Yoshie Ōishi (SRP) Shigesaburō Maeo (DLP) Takeo Nonaka (DLP) Kenji Kawada (JCP) 1952 Hitoshi Ashida (Progressive) Hidekazu Yanagita (left JSP) Shigesaburō Maeo (LP) Yoshie Ōishi (Coop) Takeo Nonaka (LP) 1953 Kō Tanaka (Yoshida LP) Hitoshi Ashida (Progressive) Shigesaburō Maeo (Yoshida LP) Hidekazu Yanagita (left JSP) Yoshie Ōishi (right JSP) 1955 Hitoshi Ashida (JDP) Shigesaburō Maeo (LP) Ryūichi Okamoto (left JSP) Suegorō Kawasaki (JDP) Hidekazu Yanagita (left JSP) 1958 Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) Hidekazu Yanagita (JSP) Hitoshi Ashida (LDP) Ryūichi Okamoto (JSP) Suegorō Kawasaki (LDP) 1960 Ryūichi Okamoto (JSP) Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) Ittoku Tamaki (DSP) 1963 Ittoku Tamaki (DSP) Hidekazu Yanagita (JSP) Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) 1967 Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) Hidekazu Yanagita (JSP) Ittoku Tamaki (DSP) Ryūichi Okamoto (JSP) 1969 Iwao Teramae (JCP) Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) 1972 Yoshiharu Yamada (JSP) Iwao Teramae (JCP) Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) Ittoku Tamaki (DSP) 1976 Iwao Teramae (JCP) Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) Yoshiharu Yamada (JSP) 1979 by-el.(two seats up) Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) 1979 Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) Yoshiharu Yamada (JSP) 1980 Shigesaburō Maeo (LDP) Sen'ichi Tanigaki (LDP) Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) Iwao Teramae (JCP) Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) 1983 by-el.(two seats up) Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP) Hiromu Nonaka (LDP) 1983 Hiromu Nonaka (LDP) Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP) Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) Sueharu Yamanaka (JSP) 1986 Iwao Teramae (JCP) Hiromu Nonaka (LDP) Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP) Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) Kazuya Tamaki (DSP) 1990 Sueharu Yamanaka (JSP) Iwao Teramae (JCP) Kiyoshi Nishinaka (Kōmeitō) 1993 Iwao Teramae (JCP) Yasuhide Yamana (Kōmeitō) Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP) Juntarō Toyoda (JRP)
Last election result 1993
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