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		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

Election results

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

2009^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ (PNP endorsement)	Masahiko Yamada	79,223.495	49.6
	LDP (Kōmeitō endorsement)	Yaichi Tanigawa (elected in Kyūshū proportional)	77,316.000	48.4
	HRP	Kiyoto Yamada	3,263.497	2.0
Turnout			162,924	76.57

2005^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yaichi Tanigawa	83,992	53.0
	DPJ	Masahiko Yamada (elected in Kyūshū proportional)	74,384	47.0
Turnout			162,422	74.71

2003^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yaichi Tanigawa	77,528	50.3
	DPJ	Masahiko Yamada (elected in Kyūshū proportional)	71,099	46.2
	JCP	Toshiyuki Terada	5,374	3.5
Turnout			157,533	72.5

2000^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Kazuo Torashima	76,794	49.8
LP	Masahiko Yamada (elected in Kyūshū proportional)	41,995	27.2
DPJ	Tadashi Inuzuka	28,589	18.5
JCP	Masayoshi Hisano (?, 久野正義)	5,759	3.7
LL	Kan Nakano (?, 沖野寛)	1,079	0.7

1996^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Kazuo Torashima	79,735	52.2
	NFP	Masahiko Yamada	65,084	42.6
	JCP	Yūji Sasada	7,883	5.2
Turnout			157,516	74.29

References

^ 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
^ 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. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ 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. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ 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. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ 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. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ 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. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[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. {{cite web}}: 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. {{cite web}}: 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. {{cite web}}: 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. {{cite web}}: 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. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

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v t e Nagasaki's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 (4) PR part of the Kyūshū PR block (23→21 seats) House of Councillors At-large (4→3 Representatives, 2 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 (9 Representatives, 2 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (8 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 (9 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (9 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Nagasaki city counties (gunbu) Tsushima (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