Kyōto 3rd district (京都府第3区 ''Kyōto-fu dai-san-ku'' or simply 京都3区 ''Kyōto sanku'') is a constituency of the
House of Representatives in the
Diet of Japan
The is the national legislature of Japan. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives (, ''Shūgiin''), and an upper house, the House of Councillors (, '' Sangiin''). Both houses are directly elected under a paralle ...
. It is located in South central
Kyoto and consists of
Kyoto city's
Fushimi ward
is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down a mountain; Fushimi Castle, originally built by Toy ...
, the cities of
Mukō and
Nagaokakyō and the town of
Ōyamazaki. As of 2012, 345,260 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area formed part of
Kyōto 2nd district where five Representatives had been elected by
single non-transferable vote
Single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used to elect multiple winners. It is a generalization of first-past-the-post, applied to multi-member districts with each voter casting just one vote. Unlike FPTP, which is a single-winn ...
(SNTV).
Kyoto had been a traditional stronghold of the
Japanese Communist Party (JCP); but following the electoral reform that replaced the SNTV multi-member districts with
FPTP single-member districts, the 3rd district was the only one in Kyōto the JCP could win:
Iwao Teramae was one of only two JCP candidates countrywide to win a district seat under the new system in the 1996 general election (the other being
Kenjirō Yamahara in
Kōchi 1st district). After Teramae's retirement in the 2000 election, Liberal Democrat
Shigehiko Okuyama who had narrowly lost to Teramae in ’96 won the district in 2000 when the center-left to left vote was split between a Communist, a Social Democrat and a Democrat. In three following elections, the Social Democratic Party did not nominate a candidate and the Communist vote share dropped below 20 percent and since 2003, Democrat
Kenta Izumi won the 3rd district three times. In 2012, Izumi lost the district by 216 votes to 31-year-old Liberal Democratic newcomer
Kensuke Miyazaki. In 2016, Miyazaki resigned because of a personal scandal
and Izumi regained his seat in the subsequent by-elections.
Areas Covered
Current District
As of 5 January 2023, the areas covered by this district are as follows:
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Fushimi-ku
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Mukō
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Nagaokakyō
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Otokuni District
List of representatives
Election results
References
{{coord missing, Kyoto Prefecture
Politics of Kyoto Prefecture
Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)