Wakayama 3rd district

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

Representative		Dates	Notes
Toshihiro Nikai	NFP	1996–2000	joined LP after the dissolution of the NFP, CP in 2000
	CP	2000–2003	joined NCP in 2002
	NCP	2003–2005	merged into LDP in 2003
	LDP	2005–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (NK)	Toshihiro Nikai	112,916	60.4
	JRP (YP)	Daisuke Yamashita	52,358	28.0
	JCP	Yasuhisa Hara	21,570	11.5

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Toshihiro Nikai	117,237
	DPJ (PNP support)	Kimiyoshi Tamaki	102,342
	Happiness Realization Party	Yūko Minato	5,634
Turnout			226,653	72.48

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Toshihiro Nikai	145,735
	DPJ	Terushige Manabe	53,532
	JCP	Minoru Ueda	20,140
Turnout			226,653	72.48

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Conservative Party	Toshihiro Nikai	148,274
	JCP	Minoru Ueda	40,930
Turnout			205,613	65.26

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative Party	Toshihiro Nikai	138,527
	Independent	Riki Azuma	55,546
	JCP	Tsutomu Hayashi	25,516

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NFP	Toshihiro Nikai	115,681
	LDP	Minoru Noda	101,074
	JCP	Yasuhisa Hara	18,155

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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (Japanese)
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　和歌山. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-05-03.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
↑ 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙 >和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.

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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