Wakayama 3rd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Wakayama Prefecture and consists of Arida, Gobo, Shingu, and Tanabe cities and the Arida, Hidaka, Higashimuro, and Nishimuro districts. As of 2012, 298,296 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Since its creation in 1996, Wakayama 3rd district has been represented by Toshihiro Nikai for the New Frontier Party (NFP), the Conservative Party, the New Conservative Party and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Nikai, a former Transport, Hokkaido and Economy minister, is a member of the LDP's Ibuki faction since his own faction of former Conservative Party members dissolved in 2009.

Kimiyoshi Tamaki, a longtime Wakayama prefectural representative, failed to unseat Nikai in the 2009 election that brought the Democratic Party a landslide win. He was safely elected in the Kinki proportional representation block where all Democratic party list candidates managed to secure a seat in the House.

Before the 1994 electoral reform, the area had been part of Wakayama 2nd district where three, later two representatives were elected by single non-transferable vote.

List of representatives

Election Representative Party Notes
1996 Toshihiro Nikai NFP joined LP after the dissolution of the NFP in 2000. After leaving LP, joined the CP.
2000 CP joined NCP in 2002.
2003 NCP merged into LDP in 2003.
2005 LDP
2009
2012
2014
2017
2021 Incumbent

Election results

2021
Party Candidate Age Votes ％ ±％ Defeat rate Supports Notes
LDP Toshihiro Nikai 82 102,834 69.34％ －3.61％ ー Kōmeitō
JCP Yoshihiro Hatano 61 20,692 13.95％ ー 20.12％ SDP
Kunimori Nana Honma 52 19,034 12.83％ ー 18.51％
Independent Hideki Negoro 51 5,745 3.87％ ー 5.59％
2017
Party Candidate Age Votes ％ ±％ Defeat rate Supports Notes
LDP Toshihiro Nikai 78 109,488 72.95％ －3.55％ ー Kōmeitō
JCP Fumirō Kusumoto 63 40,608 27.05％ ー 37.09％ SDP
2014
Party Candidate Age Votes ％ ±％ Defeat rate Supports Notes
LDP Toshihiro Nikai 75 108,257 76.50％ ＋16.07％ ー Kōmeitō
JCP Yasuhisa Hara 63 33,260 23.50％ ＋11.96％ 30.72％
2012
Party Candidate Age Votes ％ ±％ Defeat rate Supports Notes
LDP Toshihiro Nikai 73 112,916 60.43％ ＋8.37％ ー Kōmeitō
JSP Daisuke Yamashita 45 52,358 28.02％ ー 46.37％
JCP Yasuhisa Hara 61 21,570 11.54％ ＋3.81％ 19.10％
2009
Party Candidate Age Votes ％ ±％ Defeat rate Supports Notes
LDP Toshihiro Nikai 70 117,237 52.06％ －14.36％ ー Kōmeitō
DP Kimiyoshi Tamaki 54 102,342 45.44％ ー 87.29％ elected in the Kinki block.
HRP Yūko Minato 26 5,634 2.50％ ー 4.81％
2005[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Toshihiro Nikai 145,735
DPJ Terushige Manabe 53,532
JCP Minoru Ueda 20,140
Turnout 226,653 72.48
2003[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Conservative Party Toshihiro Nikai 148,274
JCP Minoru Ueda 40,930
Turnout 205,613 65.26
2000[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Party Toshihiro Nikai 138,527
Independent Riki Azuma 55,546
JCP Tsutomu Hayashi 25,516
1996[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
NFP Toshihiro Nikai 115,681
LDP Minoru Noda 101,074
JCP Yasuhisa Hara 18,155

References

  1. ↑ 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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)
  2. ↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
  3. ↑ 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
  4. ↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  5. ↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙 >和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.

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