Fukushima 3rd district

Fukushima 3rd district (福島[県第]3区, Fukushima[-ken dai-]san-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southern Fukushima and consists of the cities of Shirakawa, Sukagawa, Tamura and the Iwase, Nishishirakawa, Higashishirakawa, Ishikawa and Tamura counties. As of 2012, 293,378 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of the multi-member Fukushima 2nd district that elected five Representatives by single non-transferable vote.

After the district's creation, then Liberal Democrat Hiroyuki Arai (later New Party Nippon, New Renaissance Party) narrowly beat Democrat Kōichirō Genba who won a seat in the Tōhoku proportional representation block. Both had been elected to the House in the pre-reform 2nd district in 1993 for the first time. Since the LDP was using the Costa Rica method (kosuta rika hōshiki) in Fukushima 3rd district, Arai only ran in the PR block in the 2000 general election and was replaced by Yoshiyuki Hozumi as district candidate, another of the three former LDP representatives from the pre-reform 2nd district (The third, Fumiaki Saitō, stood as LDP candidate in Fukushima 4th district in 1996, but lost). But Genba won the 3rd district in 2000 and has held onto the district seat since. After Arai's unsuccessful re-run in 2003, the LDP discontinued the Costa Rica alternation. Genba was appointed minister of state and Democratic Party policy affairs chief under party president/prime minister Naoto Kan in 2010.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Hiroyuki Arai		LDP	1996–2000	Reelected in the Tōhoku PR block^[2]
Kōichirō Genba		DPJ	2000–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (PNP)	Kōichirō Genba	107,737	62.3
	LDP (NRP)	Sachiko Kanno (elected by PR)	48,796	28.2
	JCP	Toshie Oyamada	16,313	9.4

2009^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (PNP support)	Kōichirō Genba	159,826	73.8
	LDP (Kōmeitō, JRP support)	Masayoshi Yoshino (elected by PR)	56,858	26.2
Turnout			221,345	74.26

2005^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Kōichirō Genba	143,850	68.6
	LDP	Susumu Hasumi	65,996	31.4
Turnout			216,252	72.29

2003^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Kōichirō Genba	110,606	52.0
	LDP	Hiroyuki Arai	94,413	44.4
	JCP	Shōichi Suzuki	7,522	3.5
Turnout			215,981	72.54

2000^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Kōichirō Genba	118,385	53.8
	LDP	Yoshiyuki Hozumi	91,081	41.4
	JCP	Shōichi Suzuki	10,683	4.9

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroyuki Arai	91,747.000	46.2
	DPJ	Kōichirō Genba (elected by PR)	88,214.000	44.4
	JCP	Shōichi Suzuki	11,031.381	5.6
	Independent	Naoyuki Suzuki	7,688.109	3.9
Turnout			204,082	70.89

References

↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 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 (Japanese)
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東北>自民. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　福島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 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

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 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 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 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

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 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 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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