Kagoshima 3rd district

Kagoshima 3rd District
Kagoshima 3rd District
鹿児島県第3区
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
Prefecture	Kagoshima
Proportional District	Kyushu
Electorate	316,469
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	CDP
Representative	Ken Noma

Kagoshima 3rd District (鹿児島県第3区, Kagoshima-ken dai-san-ku)is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Northern Kagoshima and consists of the cities of Akune, Izumi, Satsumasendai, Hioki, Ichikikushikino, Isa and Aira as well as the towns of Satsuma, Nagashima and Yūsui. In 2021 the district had 319,010 eligible voters.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area was split between the multi-member districts Kagoshima 1 that elected four Representatives by single non-transferable vote and Kagoshima 2 with three representatives.

After its creation, the new 3rd district was initially a solid "conservative kingdom", a safe seat for the Liberal Democratic Party. Its first representative Tadahiro Matsushita (Obuchi faction, pre-reform: 2nd district) was followed by Kazuaki Miyaji (Mitsuzuka faction, pre-reform: 1st district) in 2000. Matsushita became a representative for the Kyūshū proportional representation block. In the "postal Diet" of 2005, he was a postal privatization rebel and tried to retake Kagoshima 3rd district as an independent in the ensuing snap election but lost to Miyaji. After initially declaring his retirement from politics, Matsushita returned in 2009 as a candidate for the People's New Party with Democratic support and won the district against Miyaji. After Matsushita's suicide in 2012, Miyaji won the resulting by-election against government candidate Takeshi Noma. In the general House of Representatives election less than three months later, Miyaji lost the district to Noma.

After the 2017 electoral reapportionment, Kagoshima Prefecture lost one of its constituencies and much of the current 3rd district had previously belonged to the Kagoshima 4th district. Subsequently, the 2017 elections were won by Yasuhiro Ozato the previous Representative of the 4th district.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Tadahiro Matsushita	LDP	1996–2000
Kazuaki Miyaji	LDP	2000–2009	Failed reelection in the Kyūshū PR block^[2]
Tadahiro Matsushita	PNP	2009–2012	Died in September 2012
Vacant (September–October 2012)
Kazuaki Miyaji	LDP	2012	Reelected in the Kyūshū PR block
Takeshi Noma	PNP	2012–2013	Left PNP in 2013
Takeshi Noma	Independent	2013–2017
Yasuhiro Ozato	LDP	2017–2021	Reelected in the Kyūshū PR block
Takeshi Noma	CDP	2021–

Election results

2021^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutional Democratic	Takeshi Noma	104,053	53.9	9.5
	Liberal Democratic	Yasuhiro Ozato (won PR seat)	89,110	46.1	4.3
Turnout				61.39	1.04
	Constitutional Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

2017^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yasuhiro Ozato	102,501	50.4
	Kibō no Tō	Takeshi Noma	90,240	44.4
	Communist	Yūta Yamaguchi	10,605	5.2
Turnout				62.43	4.86

2014 Japanese general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Takeshi Noma	79,003	54.6
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuaki Miyaji (won PR seat)	56,741	39.2
	Communist	Yoko Yamaguchi	8,821	6.1
Turnout			254,599	57.57	3.18
	Independent gain from People's New

2012^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	People's New	Takeshi Noma	70,320	45.2
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuaki Miyaji (won PR seat)	64,169	41.3
	Restoration	Hiroshi Fukudome	15,681	10.1
	Communist	Yumiko Ōkurano	4,098	2.6
	Happiness Realization	Isao Matsuzawa	1,210	0.8
Turnout			258,665	60.75	4.15
	People's New gain from Liberal Democratic

October 28, 2012 by-election^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuaki Miyaji	70,694	48.90
	People's New	Takeshi Noma	65,025	44.98
	Communist	Yumiko Ōkurano	5,973	4.13
	Happiness Realization	Isao Matsuzawa	2,886	2.00
Turnout			258,853	56.6	16.35
	Liberal Democratic gain from People's New

2009^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	People's New	Tadahiro Matsushita	107,285	56.5
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuaki Miyaji	78,876	41.6
	Happiness Realization	Yoshimi Terasako	3,630	1.9
Turnout			192,855	72.95
	People's New gain from Liberal Democratic

2005^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuaki Miyaji	92,291	47.9
	Independent	Tadahiro Matsushita	68,808	35.7
	Democratic	Takeshi Noma	31,429	16.3
Turnout			195,182	72.13
	Liberal Democratic hold

2003^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuaki Miyaji	113,743	66.9
	Democratic	Shōji Ōzono	45,308	26.6
	Communist	Satoshi Murayama	11,042	6.5
Turnout			174,412	64.14
	Liberal Democratic hold

2000^[10]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Kazuaki Miyaji	127,315	72.1
Democratic	Shōji Ōzono	33,590	19.0
Communist	Satoshi Murayama	15,651	8.9
Liberal Democratic hold

1996^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Tadahiro Matsushita	107,385	65.8
	New Frontier	Shin'ichirō Hirata	41,659	25.5
	Communist	Satoshi Murayama	14,151	8.7
Turnout			168,729	62.7
	Liberal Democratic win (new seat)

References

^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>九州>自民. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
^ 開票速報小選挙区：鹿児島- 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
^ 小選挙区鹿児島３区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区鹿児島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 13 August 2013.
^ Kagoshima electoral commission: 衆議院鹿児島県第3区選出議員補欠選挙：投開票速報
^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>鹿児島県>鹿児島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>鹿児島県>鹿児島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
^ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>鹿児島県>鹿児島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>鹿児島県>鹿児島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>鹿児島県>鹿児島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)

[2] 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>九州>自民. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

[3] 開票速報小選挙区：鹿児島- 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 24 December 2021.

[4] 小選挙区鹿児島３区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 24 December 2021.

[5] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区鹿児島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 13 August 2013.

[6] Kagoshima electoral commission: 衆議院鹿児島県第3区選出議員補欠選挙：投開票速報

[7] 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>鹿児島県>鹿児島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

[8] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>鹿児島県>鹿児島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

[9] 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>鹿児島県>鹿児島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

[10] 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>鹿児島県>鹿児島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

[11] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>鹿児島県>鹿児島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 13 April 2011.

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v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
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Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
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Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4

Kagoshima 3rd District
鹿児島県第3区
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives

Prefecture	Kagoshima
Proportional District	Kyushu
Electorate	316,469
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	CDP
Representative	Ken Noma

Kagoshima 3rd district

List of representatives

Election results

References

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