Tochigi 3rd district

Tochigi 3rd District
Tochigi 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Tochigi Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Tochigi
Proportional District	Kita-Kantō
Electorate	241,014 (2021)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Kazuo Yana
Created from	Tochigi's 1st
Municipalities	Ōtawara, Yaita, Nasushiobara, Nasukarasuyama, Nasu District

Tochigi 3rd district (栃木[県第]3区 Tochigi[-ken dai-]san-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. Located in north-eastern Tochigi, it covers the cities of Ōtawara, Yaita, Nasushiobara, Nasukarasuyama and the towns of Nasu and Nakagawa in Nasu District. As of September 2011, 247,284 eligible voters were registered in Tochigi 3rd district, giving it well above average (347,878 voters per district) vote weight.^[1]

From the creation of the district until 2014, the representative from Tochigi 3rd district was former Liberal Democrat Yoshimi Watanabe who founded Your Party (Minna no Tō, lit. "Everyone's Party") in 2009. In that year, the established parties did not even contest the seat. The only challenger the Democratic Party ever nominated has been Takashi Kobayashi in 2005. In the first three elections, only the left-wing parties contested the seat. In 2014 Watanabe was involved in a scandal over undisclosed loans^[2] and lost the next elections to the LDP candidate Kazuo Yana.

Before the electoral reform, the area had been part of the five-member 1st district. Representatives from the 1st district had included Watanabe's father Michio who died in 1995.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates
Yoshimi Watanabe	LDP	1996 – 2009
Yoshimi Watanabe	Your Party	2009 – 2014
Kazuo Yana	LDP	2014 –

Election results

2014^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuo Yana	62,814	48.74	13.66
	Independent	Yoshimi Watanabe	51,627	40.05	20.21
	Communist	Yukiko Akiyama	14,438	11.20	6.53
Turnout				54.59	3.55

2012^[4]
	Candidate	Votes	%
YP	Yoshimi Watanabe	84,023	60.3
LDP (NK)	Kazuo Yana (elected in PR block)	48,912	35.1
JCP	Yukiko Akiyama	6,509	4.7

2009^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	YP	Yoshimi Watanabe	142,482	95.3
	HRP	Katsumi Saitō	7,024	4.7
Turnout			160,021	64.73

2005^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshimi Watanabe	98,889	64.0
	DPJ	Takashi Kobayashi	41,776	27.0
	SDP	Mutsuko Yamaguchi	6,346	4.1
	JCP	Shōzō Maki	5,905	3.8
	Independent	Susumu Saitō	1,618	1.0
Turnout			158,777	64.81

2003^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshimi Watanabe	100,539	74.9
	JCP	Shōzō Maki	24,515	18.3
	SDP	Masaki Matsunaga	9,186	6.8
Turnout			140,709	58.02

2000^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshimi Watanabe	112,358	83.4
	JCP	Shōzō Maki	22,392	16.6

1996^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yoshimi Watanabe	90,082	83.4
	JCP	Shōzō Maki	17,990	16.6
Turnout			117,560	51.57

References

^ Ministry of general affairs: 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 (in Japanese)
^ "Yoshimi Watanabe quits as leader of Your Party over cash scandal". AFP. 9 April 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^ 2014年12月14日(日) 投票小選挙区栃木３区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区栃木. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
^ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
^ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
^ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
^ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
^ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.

[1] Ministry of general affairs: 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 (in Japanese)

[2] "Yoshimi Watanabe quits as leader of Your Party over cash scandal". AFP. 9 April 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

[3] 2014年12月14日(日) 投票小選挙区栃木３区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 13 December 2021.

[4] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区栃木. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[5] 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.

[6] 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.

[7] 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.

[8] 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.

[9] 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 栃木3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-20.

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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