Nagasaki 3rd district

Nagasaki 3rd district (長崎[県第]3区, Nagasaki[-ken dai-]sanku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in the prefecture of Nagasaki. It covers parts of Nagasaki on the main island of Kyūshū – the city of Ōmura and the towns of Kawatana, Hasami and Higashisonogi, Nagasaki in former Higashi-Sonogi ("East Sonogi") -gun (county or district) – and several of the prefecture's island municipalities: the cities of Iki, Tsushima and Gotō and the town of Shin-Kamigotō in Minami-Matsuura/"South Matsuura" district. As of September 2011, 211,289 eligible voters were registered in Nagasaki 3rd district, giving it the second highest vote weight in the country.[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had formed part of the four-member Nagasaki 2nd district. Two of the last representatives from the pre-reform 2nd district, Kazuo Torashima (LDP) and Masahiko Yamada (JRP), contested the new single-member 4th district in 1996. Torashima won, he was appointed defence minister in the 2nd Mori Cabinet in 2000. In the 2003 election, he retired and was succeeded by Yaichi Tanigawa. In the landslide election of 2009, Yamada won the district for the first time.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Kazuo Torashima LDP 1996–2003 Retired in 2003
Yaichi Tanigawa LDP 2003–2009 Re-elected in the Kyūshū proportional representation block
Masahiko Yamada DPJ 2009–2012 Left DPJ in 2012 and formed Han-TPP, merged into Datsu-Genpatsu, merged into JFP
Yaichi Tanigawa LDP 2012–

Election results

Note: The decimals stem from anbunhyō, see Elections in Japan.

2014
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Yaichi Tanigawa (Endorsed by Komeito) 82,354 72.2
Communist Kanji Ishimaru 31,650 27.8
Turnout
Liberal Democratic hold Swing
2012
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Yaichi Tanigawa (Endorsed by Komeito) 69,903 53.5
Tomorrow Masahiko Yamada (elected in Kyūshū proportional) (Endorsed by New Party Daichi) 52,536 40.2
Communist Kanji Ishimaru 8,301 6.3
Turnout 63.98
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic Swing
2009[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Masahiko Yamada (Endorsed by PNP) 79,223 49.6
Liberal Democratic Yaichi Tanigawa (elected in Kyūshū proportional) (Endorsed by Komeito) 77,316 48.4
Happiness Realization Kiyoto Yamada 3,263 2.0
Turnout 162,924 76.57
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing
2005[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Yaichi Tanigawa 83,992 53.0
Democratic Masahiko Yamada (elected in Kyūshū proportional) 74,384 47.0
Turnout 162,422 74.71
Liberal Democratic hold Swing
2003[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Yaichi Tanigawa 77,528 50.3
Democratic Masahiko Yamada (elected in Kyūshū proportional) 71,099 46.2
Communist Toshiyuki Terada 5,374 3.5
Turnout 157,533 72.5
Liberal Democratic hold Swing
2000[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Kazuo Torashima 76,794 49.8
Liberal Masahiko Yamada (elected in Kyūshū proportional) 41,995 27.2
Democratic Tadashi Inuzuka 28,589 18.5
Communist Masayoshi Hisano (?, 久野正義) 5,759 3.7
Liberal League Kan Nakano (?, 沖野寛) 1,079 0.7
Turnout
Liberal Democratic hold Swing
1996[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Kazuo Torashima 79,735 52.2
New Frontier Masahiko Yamada 65,084 42.6
Communist Yūji Sasada 7,883 5.2
Turnout 157,516 74.29
Liberal Democratic win (new seat)

References
  1. Ministry of general affairs: 平成２３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, p. 9
  2. 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 長崎3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-12-01. External link in |work= (help)
  3. 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 長崎3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-12-01. External link in |work= (help)
  4. 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 長崎3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-12-01. External link in |work= (help)
  5. 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 長崎3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-12-01. External link in |work= (help)
  6. 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 長崎3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-12-01. External link in |work= (help)

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