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 2000–2016
DP 2016–

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
  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 (in Japanese)
  2. 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. External link in |work= (help)
  3. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　福島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
  4. 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. External link in |work= (help)
  5. 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. External link in |work= (help)
  6. 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. External link in |work= (help)
  7. 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. External link in |work= (help)
  8. 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. External link in |work= (help)

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