Tochigi 3rd district

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Tochigi 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Tochigi Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture Tochigi
Proportional District Kita-Kantō
Electorate241,014 (2021)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party LDP
Representative Kazuo Yana
Created from Tochigi's 1st
Municipalities Ōtawara, Yaita, Nasushiobara, Nasukarasuyama, Nasu District

Tochigi 3rd district (栃木[県第]3区 Tochigi[-ken dai-]san-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. Located in north-eastern Tochigi, it covers the cities of Ōtawara, Yaita, Nasushiobara, Nasukarasuyama and the towns of Nasu and Nakagawa in Nasu District. As of September 2011, 247,284 eligible voters were registered in Tochigi 3rd district, giving it well above average (347,878 voters per district) vote weight. [1]

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From the creation of the district until 2014, the representative from Tochigi 3rd district was former Liberal Democrat Yoshimi Watanabe who founded Your Party (Minna no Tō, lit. "Everyone's Party") in 2009. In that year, the established parties did not even contest the seat. The only challenger the Democratic Party ever nominated has been Takashi Kobayashi in 2005. In the first three elections, only the left-wing parties contested the seat. In 2014 Watanabe was involved in a scandal over undisclosed loans [2] and lost the next elections to the LDP candidate Kazuo Yana.

Before the electoral reform, the area had been part of the five-member 1st district. Representatives from the 1st district had included Watanabe's father Michio who died in 1995.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Yoshimi Watanabe LDP 1996 – 2009
Your Party 2009 – 2014
Kazuo Yana LDP 2014 –

Election results

2024 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Kazuo Yana 45,546 37.4 Decrease2.svg30.0
Independent Shintarō Watanabe45,36837.2
CDP Hiroshi Iga30,91325.4Decrease2.svg6.8
Turnout 52.92Increase2.svg0.85
LDP hold
2021 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Kazuo Yana 82,398 67.4 Increase2.svg9.6
CDP Hiroshi Iga39,82632.6
Turnout 52.07Decrease2.svg1.59
LDP hold
2017 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Kazuo Yana 74,371 57.8 Increase2.svg9.0
Kibō no Tō Miyuki Watanabe42,82033.3
JCP Shōzō Maki9,9907,8Decrease2.svg3.4
Happiness Realization Tsuyoshi Ishiwata15611.2
Turnout 53.66Decrease2.svg0.93
LDP hold


2014 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Kazuo Yana 62,81448.74Increase2.svg13.66
Independent Yoshimi Watanabe 51,62740.05Decrease2.svg20.21
JCP Yukiko Akiyama14,43811.20Increase2.svg6.53
Turnout 54.59Decrease2.svg3.55
2012 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
YP Yoshimi Watanabe 84,02360.3
LDP (NK)Kazuo Yana (elected in PR block)48,91235.1
JCP Yukiko Akiyama6,5094.7
2009 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
YP Yoshimi Watanabe 142,48295.3
HRP Katsumi Saitō7,0244.7
Turnout 160,02164.73
2005 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Yoshimi Watanabe98,88964.0
DPJ Takashi Kobayashi41,77627.0
SDP Mutsuko Yamaguchi6,3464.1
JCP Shōzō Maki5,9053.8
IndependentSusumu Saitō1,6181.0
Turnout 158,77764.81
2003 [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPYoshimi Watanabe100,53974.9
JCPShōzō Maki24,51518.3
SDPMasaki Matsunaga9,1866.8
Turnout 140,70958.02
2000 [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPYoshimi Watanabe112,35883.4
JCPShōzō Maki22,39216.6
1996 [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPYoshimi Watanabe90,08283.4
JCPShōzō Maki17,99016.6
Turnout 117,56051.57

References

  1. ↑ Ministry of general affairs: 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数 (in Japanese)
  2. ↑ "Yoshimi Watanabe quits as leader of Your Party over cash scandal". AFP. 9 April 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  3. ↑ 開票速報 小選挙区：栃木 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  4. ↑ "2021年衆議院総選挙 栃木". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  5. ↑ "栃木3区 - 第48回衆議院議員選挙" [Kagawa 3rd District - 48th House of Representatives election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  6. ↑ 2014年12月14日(日) 投票 小選挙区 栃木３区 (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  7. ↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 栃木. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
  8. ↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
  9. ↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
  10. ↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
  11. ↑ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
  12. ↑ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.

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