Nara 3rd district
| Nara 3rd District | |
|---|---|
| Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives | |
 Numbered map of Nara Prefecture single-member districts | |
| Prefecture | Nara |
| Proportional District | Kinki |
| Electorate | 352,656 [1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1994 |
| Seats | One |
| Party | Liberal Democratic |
| Representative | Taido Tanose |
| Municipalities | Gojō, Gose, Kashihara, Katsuragi, Sakurai, Uda, Yamatotakada, Takaichi District, Uda District, and Yoshino District |
Nara 3rd district (奈良県第3区, Nara-ken dai-sanku or simply 奈良3区, Nara-sanku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Nara Prefecture.
LDP candidate Taido Tanose was elected in 2017. After it was revealed that during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tokyo Tanose had visited a hostess club he resigned from the party and ran as an Independent in the 2021 election.[2] After reelection he rejoined the LDP.
List of representatives
[edit]| Election | Representative | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Seisuke Okuno | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2000 | ||||
| 2003 | Shinsuke Okuno | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2005 | ||||
| 2009 | Masashige Yoshikawa | Democratic | ||
| 2012 | Shinsuke Okuno | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2014 | ||||
| 2017 | Taido Tanose | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2021 | Independent | |||
| 2024 | Liberal Democratic | |||
Election Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Taido Tanose | 92,379 | 49.2 |  11.6
| |
| Ishin | Daisuke Harayama | 41,897 | 22.3 | ||
| CDP | Yasushi Kawato | 33,101 | 17.6 | ||
| JCP | Atsushi Oota | 20,543 | 10.9 | 7.3
| |
| Registered electors | 343,656 | ||||
| Turnout | 57.00 | 0.19
| |||
| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Taido Tanose (Incumbent) |
114,553 | 60.81 | New | |
| Communist | Masakatsu Nishikawa | 34,334 | 18.23 | ||
| Independent | Shoji Takami | 32,669 | 17.34 | New | |
| Anti-NHK | Takashi Kato | 6,824 | 3.62 | New | |
| Registered electors | 355,246 | ||||
| Turnout | 57.19 |  1.69
| |||
| Independent hold | |||||
＊Tanose returned to the LDP after being elected.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Taido Tanose (Incumbent-Nara 4th) |
122,341 | 61.62 | ||
| Kibō no Tō | Kiyoshige Maekawa | 55,721 | 28.07 | New | |
| Communist | Susumu Tokoro | 20,469 | 10.31 | ||
| Registered electors | 369,148 | ||||
| Turnout | 55.50 | 1.75
| |||
| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Shinsuke Okuno (Incumbent) |
79,334 | 52.64 | ||
| Innovation | Eriko Kurihara | 46,556 | 30.89 | New | |
| Communist | Atsushi Masaki | 24,828 | 16.47 | ||
| Registered electors | 291,571 | ||||
| Turnout | 53.75 | 8.52
| |||
| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Shinsuke Okuno | 76,073 | 43.12 | |||
| Restoration | Masayoshi Nishimine | 49,928 | 28.30 | New | ||
| Democratic | Masashige Yoshikawa (Incumbent) |
35,974 | 20.39 | |||
| Communist | Yoshinori Mameda | 14,466 | 8.20 | |||
| Registered electors | 291,732 | |||||
| Turnout | 62.27 | 9.58
| ||||
| LDP gain from Democratic | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
- ^ "VOX POPULI: Entitlement on full display as lawmakers flout own curfew rules". Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
- ^ 開票速報 小選挙区：奈良 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ "2021年衆議院総選挙 奈良3区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ "2017衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ "2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
- ^ "開票結果 小選挙区 奈良". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2023-10-29.