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
Election results
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%
References
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