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 ") -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 " 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 . Two of the last representatives from the pre-reform 2nd district, (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
	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		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[]

^ 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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show v t 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 Representatives, 2 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 (9 Representatives, 2 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946) (8 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) (9 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) (9 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) (8 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) (7 Representatives)

show v t First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori-3rd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Hirotaka Akamatsu, Aichi-5th
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (13 block seats, 23 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 32 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Minami- (South) Kantō (22 block seats, 33 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1
Tokyo (17 block seats, 25 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 6 7 8 10 17 18 25
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (, 19 district seats)	Niigata 1 5 Toyama Ishikawa 2 Fukui Nagano 3
Tōkai (, 32 district seats)	Gifu 1 Shizuoka 1 Aichi 5 6 7 Mie 3
Kinki (, 47 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 Kyoto 2 3 5 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 19 Hyōgo 1 2 8 11 Nara 1 2 Wakayama 3
Chūgoku (11 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 Shimane Okayama 4 Hiroshima 1 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 Kagawa 2 Ehime Kōchi
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district seats)	Fukuoka 8 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Iwate 4 Kumamoto 5