Kyoto 3rd district

Kyōto 3rd district (京都府第3区 Kyōto-fu dai-san-ku or simply 京都3区 Kyōto sanku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in South central Kyoto and consists of Kyoto city's Fushimi ward, the cities of Mukō and Nagaokakyō and the town of Ōyamazaki. As of 2012, 345,260 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area formed part of Kyōto 2nd district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote (SNTV).

Kyoto had been a traditional stronghold of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP); but following the electoral reform that replaced the SNTV multi-member districts with FPTP single-member districts, the 3rd district was the only one in Kyōto the JCP could win: Iwao Teramae was one of only two JCP candidates countrywide to win a district seat under the new system in the 1996 general election (the other being Kenjirō Yamahara in Kōchi 1st district). After Teramae's retirement in the 2000 election, Liberal Democrat Shigehiko Okuyama who had narrowly lost to Teramae in ’96 won the district in 2000 when the center-left to left vote was split between a Communist, a Social Democrat and a Democrat. In three following elections, the Social Democratic Party did not nominate a candidate and the Communist vote share dropped below 20 percent and since 2003, Democrat Kenta Izumi won the 3rd district three times. In 2012, Izumi lost the district by 216 votes to 31-year-old Liberal Democratic newcomer Kensuke Miyazaki.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Iwao Teramae	JCP	1996 – 2000	Retired from politics in 2000
Shigehiko Okuyama	LDP	2000 – 2003	Failed reelection in the Kinki PR block
Kenta Izumi	DPJ	2003 – 2012	Re-elected in the Kinki PR bloc
Kensuke Miyazaki	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kensuke Miyazaki	58,951	31.6
	DPJ – PNP	Kenta Izumi (won seat in Kinki PR)	58,735	31.5
	JRP – YP	Seisuke Yamauchi	41,996	22.5
	JCP	Kazuko Ishimura	26,674	14.3

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (PNP support)	Kenta Izumi	121,834
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Kōichirō Shimizu	68,043
	JCP	Kazuko Ishimura	30,583
	HRP	Kōichi Kishimoto	2,744
Turnout			227,525	65.89

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Kenta Izumi	92,249
	LDP	Kōichirō Shimizu (elected by PR)	91,429
	JCP	Kazuko Ishimura	32,251
Turnout			219,828	63.9

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Kenta Izumi	84,052
	LDP	Shigehiko Okuyama	64,726
	JCP	Kazuko Ishimura	30,861
Turnout			183,824	53.66

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Shigehiko Okuyama	66,576
	DPJ	Kenta Izumi	57,536
	JCP	Takao Honjō	44,816
	SDP	Munenori Ōwan^[7]	13,482
Turnout			188,165	55.43

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JCP	Iwao Teramae	58,479
	LDP	Shigehiko Okuyama (elected by PR)	57,241
	NFP	Yasuhide Yamana	52,884
Turnout			175,202	52.84

References

↑ 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
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　京都. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-02.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>京都府>京都3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>京都府>京都3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>京都府>京都3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>京都府>京都3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
↑ 大湾宗則
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>京都府>京都3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.

Kyōto's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 6 PR part of the Kinki PR block (33→29 seats) House of Councillors At-large (6 Representatives, 4 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 (10 Representatives, 4 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (10 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 (11 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (9 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Kyoto city counties (gunbu) (8 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (7 Representatives)

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 seats	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 seats	Tokyo 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

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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