Tokyo 3rd district

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 2009, 476,576 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

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.

The current representative for the Tokyo 3rd district is 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. He later represented Ōta in the Metropolitan Assembly as an independent with Zekin-tō ("Tax Party") support, subsequently joined the Liberal Democratic Party (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

Representative Party Dates Notes
Shin'ichirō Kurimoto LDP 1996 – 2000
Jin Matsubara DPJ 2000 – 2005 Reelected in the Tokyo PR block[2]
Hirotaka Ishihara LDP 2005 – 2009 Failed reelection in the Tokyo PR block[3]
Jin Matsubara DPJ 2009 – Incumbent

Election results

2009[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Jin Matsubara 163,791
LDP Hirotaka Ishihara 121,699
JCP Eiji Sawada 28.221
Turnout 319,070 67.3
2005[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hirotaka Ishihara 151,989
DPJ Jin Matsubara 123,999
JCP Hitoshi Gotō 23,611
Turnout 306,013 66.85
2003[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Jin Matsubara 122,181
LDP Hirotaka Ishihara 113,494
JCP Kiyofumi Ōnuki 22615
Turnout 266,636 59.45
2000[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Jin Matsubara 84,372
LDP Shō Naitō[8] 82,954
JCP Hideto Wakitsuki 38,812
LP Ikuko Tsuboya[9] 18,991
SDP Ran Mei 13,575
Independent Yatarō Iwasaki 7,269
LL Shintarō Kō 4,357
2000[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shin’ichirō Kurimoto 73,055
NFP Jin Matsubara 67,653
JCP Hideto Wakitsuki 43,263
Sakigake Noboru Usami 35,025
Independent Yatarō Iwasaki 7,982
Turnout 235,346 55.47

References

  1. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成21年9月2日現在における選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数の概要 (Japanese)
  2. ^ "衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京>民主" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2005/99/000001/00000001_720_000003.html. Retrieved 2009-06-01. 
  3. ^ "衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京>自民" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2009/99/008477/00008477_24012_000001.html. Retrieved 2009-06-01. 
  4. ^ "衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2009/99/008477/00008477_23780.html. Retrieved 2009-06-01. 
  5. ^ "衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2005/99/000001/00000001_488.html. Retrieved 2010-07-01. 
  6. ^ "衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2003/99/001583/00001583_5882.html. Retrieved 2010-07-01. 
  7. ^ "衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2000/99/001580/00001580_5580.html. Retrieved 2010-07-01. 
  8. ^ 内藤尚
  9. ^ 坪谷郁子
  10. ^ "衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1996/99/001557/00001557_5109.html. Retrieved 2010-07-01. 
Tokyo's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Tokyo PR block · House of Councillors: At-large (25 Representatives (PR block: 19→17), 8→10 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (43 Representatives, 8 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946): 1 2 (22 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (31 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (25 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917): Tokyo city · counties (gunbu) (16 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (12 Representatives)