The Tokyo 3rd district (東京都第3区 , Tōkyō-to dai-san-ku ) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Tokyo and covers parts of the former city of Tokyo and Tokyo's outlying islands. The district consists of the wards of Shinagawa and parts of Ōta , the towns of Ōshima and Hachijō and the villages of Toshima , Niijima , Kōzushima , Miyake , Mikurajima , Aogashima and Ogasawara . As of 2012, 482,494 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]
Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Tokyo 2nd district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote .
The current representative from Tokyo 3rd district is Hirotaka Ishihara (Liberal Democratic Party of Japan , LDP), the son of former prefectural governor and environment minister Shintarō Ishihara (Japan Restoration Party , formerly LDP) and brother of current environment minister Nobuteru Ishihara (LDP). In 2012, Ishihara narrowly beat incumbent Jin Matsubara (DPJ , Hatoyama and Kawabata groups) who began his political career in 1985 as a candidate for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for the New Liberal Club and later represented Ōta in the Metropolitan Assembly as an independent with Zekin-tō ("Tax Party") support, subsequently joined the LDP, the Japan Renewal Party (JRP), the New Frontier Party (NFP), the Liberal Party , the Good Governance Party (GGP) and finally the Democratic Party (DPJ) in 1998.
List of representatives [ ]
Representative
Party
Dates
Notes
LDP
1996 – 2000
Jin Matsubara
DPJ
2000 – 2005
Reelected in the Tokyo PR block [2]
Hirotaka Ishihara
LDP
2005 – 2009
Failed reelection in the Tokyo PR block[3]
Jin Matsubara
DPJ
2009 – 2012
Re-elected by PR in the Tokyo block
Hirotaka Ishihara
LDP
2012 –
Incumbent
Election results [ ]
2000 [8]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
DPJ
Jin Matsubara
84,372
LDP
Shō Naitō[9]
82,954
JCP
Hideto Wakitsuki
38,812
LP
Ikuko Tsuboya[10]
18,991
SDP
Ran Mei
13,575
Independent
Yatarō Iwasaki
7,269
LL
Shintarō Kō
4,357
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