Kyoto 3rd district

Kyoto 3rd District
Kyoto 3rd District
京都府第3区
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
Prefecture	Kyoto
Proportional District	Kinki
Electorate	353,363 (as of September 2022)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	CDP
Representative	Kenta Izumi

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.^[2]

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. In 2016, Miyazaki resigned because of a personal scandal^[3] and Izumi regained his seat in the subsequent by-elections.

Areas covered

Current district

As of 5 January 2023, the areas covered by this district are as follows:

List of representatives

Representative		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 – 2017	Leader of the CDP from November 2021
	Kibō no Tō	2017 – 2018
	DPFP	2018 – 2020
	CDP	2020 –

Election results

2021^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Kenta Izumi	89,259	48.19	9.89
	LDP	Yaoi Kimura	61,674	33.30	1.06
	Ishin	Hiroaki Ino'ue	34,288	18.51	8.48
Turnout				53.52	6.10

2017^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Kibō no Tō	Kenta Izumi	63,013	38.30	27.12
	LDP	Yaoi Kimura (elected in PR block)	56,534	34.36
	JCP	Tooru Kanamori	26,420	16.06
	Ishin	Natsue Mori (elected in PR block)	16,511	10.03	10.80
	Independent	Shin'ichirō Odagiri	2,059	1.25
Turnout				47.42	17.30

House of Representatives: 2016 Kyoto 3rd district by-election^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kenta Izumi	65,051	65.42	32.3
	Ishin	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^[8]	30.12
	Democratic gain from LDP		Swing	N/A

2014 Japanese general election: Kyoto 3rd^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Kensuke Miyazaki	59,437	35.84
	Democratic	Kenta Izumi (won seat in Kinki PR)	54,900	33.11
	JCP	Kazuko Ishimura	26,655	16.07
	Innovation	Kōichirō Shimizu	24,840	14.98
Turnout

2012^[10]
	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^[11]
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^[12]
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^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Kenta Izumi	84,052
	LDP	Shigehiko Okuyama	64,726
	JCP	Kazuko Ishimura	30,861
Turnout			183,824	53.66

2000^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Shigehiko Okuyama	66,576
	DPJ	Kenta Izumi	57,536
	JCP	Takao Honjō	44,816
	SDP	Munenori Ōwan^[15]	13,482
Turnout			188,165	55.43

1996^[16]
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

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^ 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
^ "Japan 'paternity leave' MP quits amid affair scandal". BBC. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
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[1] "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-04.

[2] 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

[3] "Japan 'paternity leave' MP quits amid affair scandal". BBC. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2021.

[4] 開票速報小選挙区：京都 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

[5] 小選挙区京都３区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

[6] "開票結了速報" [Preliminary final results] (PDF) (in Japanese). Kyoto Prefecture. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016.

[7] "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.

[8] "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.

[9] 小選挙区：京都 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-04-13.

[10] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区京都. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-02.

[11] 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>京都府>京都3区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.

[12] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>京都府>京都3区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.

[13] 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>京都府>京都3区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.

[14] 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>京都府>京都3区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.

[15] 大湾宗則

[16] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>京都府>京都3区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.

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v t e Kyōto's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 6 PR part of the Kinki PR block (33→29 seats) House of Councillors At-large (6 Representatives, 4 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 (10 Representatives, 4 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (10 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 (11 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (9 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Kyoto city counties (gunbu) (8 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (7 Representatives)

v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4