Japanese political constituency
Wakayama 3rd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Wakayama Prefecture and consists 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]
Since its creation in 1996, Wakayama 3rd district has been 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 .
List of representatives [ edit ] Election results [ edit ] 2021 Party Candidate Age Votes % ±% Defeat rate Supports Notes LDP Toshihiro Nikai 82 102,834 69.34% -3.61% ー Kōmeitō JCP Yoshihiro Hatano 61 20,692 13.95% ー 20.12% SDP Kunimori Nana Honma 52 19,034 12.83% ー 18.51% Independent Hideki Negoro 51 5,745 3.87% ー 5.59%
2017 Party Candidate Age Votes % ±% Defeat rate Supports Notes LDP Toshihiro Nikai 78 109,488 72.95% -3.55% ー Kōmeitō JCP Fumirō Kusumoto 63 40,608 27.05% ー 37.09% SDP
2014 Party Candidate Age Votes % ±% Defeat rate Supports Notes LDP Toshihiro Nikai 75 108,257 76.50% +16.07% ー Kōmeitō JCP Yasuhisa Hara 63 33,260 23.50% +11.96% 30.72%
2012 Party Candidate Age Votes % ±% Defeat rate Supports Notes LDP Toshihiro Nikai 73 112,916 60.43% +8.37% ー Kōmeitō JSP Daisuke Yamashita 45 52,358 28.02% ー 46.37% JCP Yasuhisa Hara 61 21,570 11.54% +3.81% 19.10%
2009 Party Candidate Age Votes % ±% Defeat rate Supports Notes LDP Toshihiro Nikai 70 117,237 52.06% -14.36% ー Kōmeitō DP Kimiyoshi Tamaki 54 102,342 45.44% ー 87.29% elected in the Kinki block. HRP Yūko Minato 26 5,634 2.50% ー 4.81%
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Hokkaidō (8 block seats , 12 district seats)Tōhoku (12 block seats , 23 district seats)Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats , 32 district seats) Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats , 33 district seats) Tokyo (19 block seats , 25 district seats)Hokuriku -Shin'etsu (10 block seats , 19 district seats)Tōkai (21 block seats , 32 district seats)Kinki (28 block seats , 47 district seats)Chūgoku (10 block seats , 20 district seats)Shikoku (6 block seats , 11 district seats)Kyūshū (20 block seats , 35 district seats)Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments