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 Party 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 in 2012 and 2014
Kensuke Miyazaki LDP 2012 – 2016 Resigned mid-term
Kenta Izumi DP 2016 –

Election results
House of Representatives: 2016 Kyoto 3rd district by-election[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Kenta Izumi 65,051 65.42 32.3
Innovation Natsue Mori 20,710 20.83 5.8
Japanese Kokoro Yukiko Ono 6,449 6.49 N/A
Independent Masafumi Tabuchi 4,599 4.63 N/A
Happiness Realization Mitsuko Ōyagi 2,247 2.26 N/A
Independent Akihiko Kōri 370 0.37 N/A
Rejected ballots 4,224 4.08
Majority 44,341 44.59 42.8
Turnout 103,650[4] 30.12
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, 2016) Swing N/A
2014 Japanese general election: Kyoto 3rd[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Kensuke Miyazaki 59,437 35.84
Democratic Kenta Izumi (won seat in Kinki PR) 54,900 33.11
Communist Kazuko Ishimura 26,655 16.07
Innovation Kōichirō Shimizu 24,840 14.98
Turnout
2012[6]
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[7]
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[8]
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[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Kenta Izumi 84,052
LDP Shigehiko Okuyama 64,726
JCP Kazuko Ishimura 30,861
Turnout 183,824 53.66
2000[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shigehiko Okuyama 66,576
DPJ Kenta Izumi 57,536
JCP Takao Honjō 44,816
SDP Munenori Ōwan[11] 13,482
Turnout 188,165 55.43
1996[12]
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
  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
  2. "開票結了速報" [Preliminary final results] (PDF) (in Japanese). Kyoto Prefecture. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  3. "衆院京都３区補選" [House of Representatives - Kyoto 3rd district by-election] (in Japanese). NHK. 24 April 2016. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  4. "選挙当日の有権者数、投票者数及び投票率に関する調 ［投票結了］" [Number of voters on election day and turnout (post-election report)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Kyoto Prefecture. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
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