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, the lower house of the national

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. It is located in Southern

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and covers the cities of Komatsu, Kaga, Nomi, Hakusan, Nonoichi and the town of Kawakita (the one remaining municipality of Nomi District). The district's first representative after the electoral reform of the 1990s was

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(Machimura faction) who had represented the pre-reform three-member

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since 1969. In April 2000, Mori was elected LDP president uncontested to replace

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who had suffered an eventually fatal stroke, but resigned after one year. In the 2009 election when the LDP-led coalition lost its majority, Mori narrowly defended his district against Democratic newcomer

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. In previous elections, Mori's main challenger had been reformist conservative former Liberal Democratic prefectural assemblyman

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(LDP→JRP→NFP→LP→DPJ) who was elected in the proportional representation bloc three times and went on to become Councillor for Ishikawa in 2007. In 2012, Mori retired. His son and former secretary Yūki Mori had resigned from his prefectural assembly seat in 2010 over a car accident under the influence. He died in 2011. The LDP candidacy in Ishikawa 2nd district went to political newcomer Hajime Sasaki, a former director of a building management company from Nomi City. Sasaki safely held the seat for the LDP.

List of representatives

Election results

References

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