Saitama 3rd district

Saitama 3rd district (埼玉県第3区 Saitama-ken dai-sanku or simply 埼玉3区 Saitama 3-ku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southeastern Saitama and consists of the cities of Sōka and Koshigaya. As of 2012, 460,884 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Sōka was part of the 1st district where three Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote, and Koshigaya part of Saitama 4th district (four Representatives).

Between 1996 and 2009, the district had been closely contested between former Sōka mayor Hiroshi Imai (now LDP, Koga faction) who was first elected as JNP candidate from the old 1st district in 1993, and Ex-Socialist Ritsuo Hosokawa (now DPJ, Kan group) who is originally from Kōchi Prefecture but had represented the old 4th district for the JSP since 1990. After his 2009 defeat Imai retired from politics. Hosokawa went on to serve in the DPJ-led cabinets as vice minister and minister. But in the landslide Democratic defeat in 2012, he lost the district to Liberal Democratic newcomer Hitoshi Kikawada and also failed to win a proportional seat.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Hiroshi Imai	NFP	1996 – 2000	Failed reelection in the Northern Kantō PR block
Ritsuo Hosokawa	DPJ	2000 – 2005	Reelected in the Northern Kantō PR block
Hiroshi Imai	LDP	2005 – 2009	Failed reelection in the Northern Kantō PR block
Ritsuo Hosokawa	DPJ	2009 – 2012	Failed reelection in the Northern Kantō PR block
Hitoshi Kikawada	LDP	2012 –	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Hitoshi Kikawada	87,695	35.5
	DPJ (PNP)	Ritsuo Hosokawa	58,590	23.7
	JRP	Kanji Yakou	46,136	18.7
	YP	Eiji Miyase	37,034	15.0
	JCP	Shin'ichi Hirose	17,346	7.0

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (PNP support)	Ritsuo Hosokawa	167,432	60.0
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Hiroshi Imai	103,369	37.1
	HRP	Takeshi Iida	8,194	2.9
Turnout			287,403	63.63

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Imai	140,010	51.3
	DPJ	Ritsuo Hosokawa (elected by PR)	109,816	40.3
	JCP	Isamu Matsuzawa	22,912	8.4
Turnout			278,602	63.16

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Ritsuo Hosokawa	104,182	46.4
	LDP	Hiroshi Imai (elected by PR)	103,588	46.1
	JCP	Tsutomu Tamura	16,703	7.4
Turnout			228,724	52.44

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Ritsuo Hosokawa	105,054	47.0
	LDP	Hiroshi Imai	87,344	39.1
	JCP	Tsutomu Tamura	30,997	13.9

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NFP	Hiroshi Imai	63,841	31.4
	LDP	Takuji Noguchi	54,703	26.9
	DPJ	Ritsuo Hosokawa (elected by PR)	45,400	22.3
	JCP	Jin Kumaki	25,792	12.7
	Independent	Toyoji Inoue	13,524	6.7
Turnout			207,366	51.53

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)
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　埼玉. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>埼玉県>埼玉3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>埼玉県>埼玉3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>埼玉県>埼玉3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>埼玉県>埼玉3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>埼玉県>埼玉3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-10.

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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