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Japan House of Representatives constituency
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.
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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.
Former representative from the Tokyo 3rd district was
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 former 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
Election results
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House of Peers (1890–1947) | At-large (1→2 elected top taxpayer Peers) |
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Hokkaidō (
8 block seats, 12 district seats) | |
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Tōhoku (
12 block seats, 23 district seats) | |
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Kita- (North)
Kantō (
19 block seats, 32 district seats) | |
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Minami- (South)
Kantō (
23 block seats, 33 district seats) | |
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Tokyo (
19 block seats, 25 district seats) | |
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Hokuriku-
Shin'etsu (
10 block seats, 19 district seats) | |
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Tōkai (
21 block seats, 32 district seats) | |
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Kinki (
28 block seats, 47 district seats) | |
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Chūgoku (
10 block seats, 20 district seats) | |
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Shikoku (
6 block seats, 11 district seats) | |
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Kyūshū (
20 block seats, 35 district seats) | |
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Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments | |
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Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments | |
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Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments | |
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Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments | |
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