Tokyo 3rd district

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Tokyo 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Prefecture Tokyo
Proportional District Tokyo
Electorate482,494 (2012)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party CDP
Representative Jin Matsubara
Created from Tokyo 2nd district
Wards Shinagawa and parts of Ōta
Towns and villages Ōshima, Hachijō, Toshima, Niijima, Kōzushima, Miyake, Mikurajima, Aogashima and Ogasawara

The Tokyo 3rd district (東京都第3区, Tōkyō-to dai-san-ku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Tokyo and covers parts of the former city of Tokyo and Tokyo's outlying islands. The district consists of the wards of Shinagawa and parts of Ōta, the towns of Ōshima and Hachijō and the villages of Toshima, Niijima, Kōzushima, Miyake, Mikurajima, Aogashima and Ogasawara. As of 2012, 482,494 eligible voters were registered in the district. [1]

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Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Tokyo 2nd district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

Former representative from the Tokyo 3rd district was Hirotaka Ishihara (Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, LDP), the son of former prefectural governor and environment minister Shintarō Ishihara (Japan Restoration Party, formerly LDP) and brother of former environment minister Nobuteru Ishihara (LDP). In 2012, Ishihara narrowly beat incumbent Jin Matsubara (DPJ, Hatoyama and Kawabata groups) who began his political career in 1985 as a candidate for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for the New Liberal Club and later represented Ōta in the Metropolitan Assembly as an independent with Zekin-tō ("Tax Party") support, subsequently joined the LDP, the Japan Renewal Party (JRP), the New Frontier Party (NFP), the Liberal Party, the Good Governance Party (GGP) and finally the Democratic Party (DPJ) in 1998.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Shin'ichirō Kurimoto LDP 1996 – 2000
Jin Matsubara DPJ 2000 – 2005Won seat in the Tokyo PR block [2]
Hirotaka Ishihara LDP 2005 – 2009Failed reelection in the Tokyo PR block [3]
Jin Matsubara DPJ 2009 – 2012Won seat in the Tokyo PR block
Hirotaka Ishihara LDP 2012 – 2021Won seat in the Tokyo PR block
Jin Matsubara CDP 2021 –

Election results

2012 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP (NK) Hirotaka Ishihara 122,31442.0
DPJ (PNP) Jin Matsubara (elected by PR)120,29841.3
TPJ (NPD)Gōkyū Ikeda25,7738.8
JCP Katsusuke Kōzai23,1677.9
2009 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Jin Matsubara 163,791
LDP Hirotaka Ishihara 121,699
JCP Eiji Sawada28.221
Turnout 319,07067.3
2005 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Hirotaka Ishihara 151,989
DPJ Jin Matsubara 123,999
JCP Hitoshi Gotō23,611
Turnout 306,01366.85
2003 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Jin Matsubara 122,181
LDP Hirotaka Ishihara 113,494
JCP Kiyofumi Ōnuki22615
Turnout 266,63659.45
2000 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Jin Matsubara 84,372
LDP Shō Naitō [9] 82,954
JCP Hideto Wakitsuki38,812
LP Ikuko Tsuboya [10] 18,991
SDP Ran Mei13,575
IndependentYatarō Iwasaki7,269
LL Shintarō Kō4,357
2000 [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Shin’ichirō Kurimoto 73,055
NFP Jin Matsubara 67,653
JCP Hideto Wakitsuki43,263
Sakigake Noboru Usami35,025
IndependentYatarō Iwasaki7,982
Turnout 235,34655.47

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References

  1. ↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 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. ↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京>民主. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
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  4. ↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-27.
  5. ↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN . Retrieved 2009-06-01.
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  7. ↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN . Retrieved 2010-07-01.
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  9. ↑ 内藤尚
  10. ↑ 坪谷郁子
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