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 2012, 482,494 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 from Tokyo 3rd district is Hirotaka Ishihara (Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, LDP), the son of former prefectural governor and environment minister Shintarō Ishihara (Japan Restoration Party, formerly LDP) and brother of current environment minister Nobuteru Ishihara (LDP). In 2012, Ishihara narrowly beat incumbent 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 and later represented Ōta in the Metropolitan Assembly as an independent with Zekin-tō ("Tax Party") support, subsequently joined the 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 – 2012	Re-elected by PR in the Tokyo block
Hirotaka Ishihara		LDP	2012 –	Incumbent

Election results

2012[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (NK)	Hirotaka Ishihara	122,314	42.0
	DPJ (PNP)	Jin Matsubara (elected by PR)	120,298	41.3
	TPJ (NPD)	Gōkyū Ikeda	25,773	8.8
	JCP	Katsusuke Kōzai	23,167	7.9

2009[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Jin Matsubara	163,791
	LDP	Hirotaka Ishihara	121,699
	JCP	Eiji Sawada	28.221
Turnout			319,070	67.3

2005[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirotaka Ishihara	151,989
	DPJ	Jin Matsubara	123,999
	JCP	Hitoshi Gotō	23,611
Turnout			306,013	66.85

2003[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Jin Matsubara	122,181
	LDP	Hirotaka Ishihara	113,494
	JCP	Kiyofumi Ōnuki	22615
Turnout			266,636	59.45

2000[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Jin Matsubara	84,372
	LDP	Shō Naitō[9]	82,954
	JCP	Hideto Wakitsuki	38,812
	LP	Ikuko Tsuboya[10]	18,991
	SDP	Ran Mei	13,575
	Independent	Yatarō Iwasaki	7,269
	LL	Shintarō Kō	4,357

2000[11]

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 (in Japanese)
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3. 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京>自民. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-07-31. Retrieved 2009-06-01. External link in |work= (help)
4. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-27.
5. 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-06-01. External link in |work= (help)
6. 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-07-01. External link in |work= (help)
7. 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-07-01. External link in |work= (help)
8. 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-07-01. External link in |work= (help)
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11. 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-07-01. External link in |work= (help)