Misu Nomura (; 19 August 1896 – 15 March 1979) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
Biography Nomura was born in 1896 in the village of in Nakauonuma District of Niigata Prefecture (now part of Tōkamachi).新しき明日の来るを信ず－はじめての女性代議士たち, p179 After graduating from Ueno Housekeeper High School in 1919 she worked as a primary school teacher. She married Kojiro Nomura, who worked at the tax office.
After World War II, Nomura contested the Niigata 2nd district in the 1946 general elections as an independent candidate, and was elected to the House of Representatives.Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p77 She was a founding member of the National Cooperative Party (NCP) in 1947, becoming one of its vice presidents.新潟県100年史, volume 2, 1968, p401 She unsuccessfully contested the 1947 House of Councillors elections as an NCP candidate in Niigata Prefecture.朝日選挙大観, p583 She died in 1979.議会制度百年史 衆議院議員名鑑, p494
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