Wakayama 3rd district

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Wakayama 3rd district is a former constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature), located in Wakayama Prefecture and consisted of Arida, Gobo, Shingu, and Tanabe cities and the Arida, Hidaka, Higashimuro, and Nishimuro districts. As of 2012, 298,296 eligible voters were registered in the district. [1]

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Since its creation in 1996, Wakayama 3rd district was represented by Toshihiro Nikai for the New Frontier Party (NFP), the Conservative Party, the New Conservative Party and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Nikai, a former Transport, Hokkaido and Economy minister, is a member of the LDP's Ibuki faction since his own faction of former Conservative Party members dissolved in 2009.

Kimiyoshi Tamaki, a longtime Wakayama prefectural representative, failed to unseat Nikai in the 2009 election that brought the Democratic Party a landslide win. He was safely elected in the Kinki proportional representation block where all Democratic party list candidates managed to secure a seat in the House.

Before the 1994 electoral reform, the area had been part of Wakayama 2nd district where three, later two representatives were elected by single non-transferable vote.

The district was abolished as a part the 2022 reapportionment. All the municipalities in the district became part of the Wakayama 2nd district.

List of representatives

ElectionRepresentativePartyNotes
1996 Toshihiro Nikai NFP joined LP after the dissolution of the NFP in 2000. After leaving LP, joined the CP.
2000 CP joined NCP in 2002.
2003 NCP merged into LDP in 2003.
2005 LDP
2009
2012
2014
2017
2021 Constituency abolished

Election results

2021
PartyCandidateAgeVotes%±%Defeat rateSupportsNotes
LDP Toshihiro Nikai 82102,83469.34%-3.61% Kōmeitō
JCP Yoshihiro Hatano6120,69213.95%20.12% SDP
KunimoriNana Honma5219,03412.83%18.51%
IndependentHideki Negoro515,7453.87%5.59%
2017
PartyCandidateAgeVotes%±%Defeat rateSupportsNotes
LDPToshihiro Nikai78109,48872.95%-3.55%Kōmeitō
JCPFumirō Kusumoto6340,60827.05%37.09%SDP
2014
PartyCandidateAgeVotes%±%Defeat rateSupportsNotes
LDPToshihiro Nikai75108,25776.50%+16.07%Kōmeitō
JCPYasuhisa Hara6333,26023.50%
11.96%
30.72%
2012
PartyCandidateAgeVotes%±%Defeat rateSupportsNotes
LDPToshihiro Nikai73112,91660.43%+8.37%Kōmeitō
JSP Daisuke Yamashita4552,35828.02%46.37%
JCPYasuhisa Hara6121,57011.54%
3.81%
19.10%
2009
PartyCandidateAgeVotes%±%Defeat rateSupportsNotes
LDPToshihiro Nikai70117,23752.06%-14.36%Kōmeitō
DP Kimiyoshi Tamaki 54102,34245.44%87.29%elected in the Kinki block.
HRP Yūko Minato265,6342.50%4.81%
2005 [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Toshihiro Nikai 145,735
DPJ Terushige Manabe 53,532
JCP Minoru Ueda20,140
Turnout 226,65372.48
2003 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Conservative Party Toshihiro Nikai 148,274
JCP Minoru Ueda40,930
Turnout 205,61365.26
2000 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Party Toshihiro Nikai 138,527
Independent Riki Azuma 55,546
JCP Tsutomu Hayashi25,516
1996 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
NFP Toshihiro Nikai 115,681
LDP Minoru Noda 101,074
JCP Yasuhisa Hara18,155

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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)
  2. 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN . Retrieved 2010-01-19.
  3. 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN . Retrieved 2010-01-19.
  4. 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN . Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  5. 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙 >和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN . Retrieved 2010-01-19.