Nagasaki 3rd district

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Nagasaki 3rd district (長崎[県第]3区 Nagasaki[-ken dai-]sanku?) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in the prefecture of Nagasaki. It covers parts of Nagasaki on the main island of Kyūshū – the city of Ōmura and the towns of Kawatana, Hasami and Higashisonogi, Nagasaki in former Higashi-Sonogi ("East Sonogi") -gun (county or district) – and several of the prefecture's island municipalities: the cities of Iki, Tsushima and Gotō and the town of Shin-Kamigotō in Minami-Matsuura/"South Matsuura" district. As of September 2011, 211,289 eligible voters were registered in Nagasaki 3rd district, giving it the second highest vote weight in the country.[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had formed part of the four-member Nagasaki 2nd district. Two of the last representatives from the pre-reform 2nd district, Kazuo Torashima (LDP) and Masahiko Yamada (JRP), contested the new single-member 4th district in 1996. Torashima won, he was appointed defence minister in the 2nd Mori Cabinet in 2000. In the 2003 election, he retired and was succeeded by Yaichi Tanigawa. In the landslide election of 2009, Yamada won the district for the first time.

List of Representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Kazuo Torashima LDP 1996–2003 Retired in 2003
Yaichi Tanigawa LDP 2003–2009 Re-elected in the Kyūshū proportional representation block
Masahiko Yamada DPJ 2009–2012 Left DPJ in 2012 and formed Han-TPP, merged into Datsu-Genpatsu, merged into JFP

Election results

Note: The decimals stem from anbunhyō, see Elections in Japan.

2009[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (PNP endorsement) Masahiko Yamada 79,223.495 49.6
LDP (Kōmeitō endorsement) Yaichi Tanigawa (elected in Kyūshū proportional) 77,316.000 48.4
HRP Kiyoto Yamada 3,263.497 2.0
Turnout 162,924 76.57
2005[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yaichi Tanigawa 83,992 53.0
DPJ Masahiko Yamada (elected in Kyūshū proportional) 74,384 47.0
Turnout 162,422 74.71
2003[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yaichi Tanigawa 77,528 50.3
DPJ Masahiko Yamada (elected in Kyūshū proportional) 71,099 46.2
JCP Toshiyuki Terada 5,374 3.5
Turnout 157,533 72.5
2000[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kazuo Torashima 76,794 49.8
LP Masahiko Yamada (elected in Kyūshū proportional) 41,995 27.2
DPJ Tadashi Inuzuka 28,589 18.5
JCP Masayoshi Hisano (?, 久野正義) 5,759 3.7
LL Kan Nakano (?, 沖野寛) 1,079 0.7
1996[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kazuo Torashima 79,735 52.2
NFP Masahiko Yamada 65,084 42.6
JCP Yūji Sasada 7,883 5.2
Turnout 157,516 74.29

References

  1. Ministry of general affairs: 平成23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, p. 9
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