Chiba 3rd district

Chiba 3rd district
Chiba 3rd district
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of the Chiba Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Chiba
Proportional District	Southern Kanto
Electorate	333,990
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representatives	Hirokazu Matsuno
Municipalities	Midori-ku of Chiba, Ichihara

PrefectureChiba

Proportional DistrictSouthern Kanto

Electorate333,990^[1]

Created1994

Chiba 3rd district (千葉県第3区, Chiba-ken dai-sanku or simply 千葉3区, Chiba-sanku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Chiba Prefecture.

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Election	Representative
1996^[5]	Masayuki Okajima [ja]	New Frontier
		Liberal
		New Conservative
2000^[6]	Hirokazu Matsuno	LDP
2003^[7]	Kazumasa Okajima [ja]	Democratic
2005^[8]	Hirokazu Matsuno	LDP
2009^[9]	Kazumasa Okajima [ja]	Democratic
		PLF
		Tomorrow
2012^[10]	Hirokazu Matsuno	LDP
2014^[11]
2017^[12]
2021^[13]
2024^[14]
2026

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno	86,687	52.0	11.8
	Centrist Reform	Kazumasa Okajima	48,689	29.2	10.0
	Sanseitō	Masayuki Yamamoto	22,750	13.6
	JCP	Kumiko Watanabe	8,591	5.2	0.5
Registered electors			331,011
Turnout				51.64	0.88
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno (Incumbent)	67,308	41.17	20.70
	CDP	Kazumasa Okajima [ja] (Won PR seat)	64,169	39.25	1.12
	Independent	Yūya Ōsuki	22,717	13.89	New
	JCP	Kazuo Kato	9,297	5.69	N/A
Majority			3,139	1.92
Registered electors			332,979
Turnout				50.76	1.60
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno (Incumbent)	106,500	61.87	8.60
	CDP	Kazumasa Okajima [ja]	65,627	38.13	New
Majority			40,873	23.74
Registered electors			336,241
Turnout				52.36	3.76
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno (Incumbent)	85,461	53.27	0.10
	CDP	Kazumasa Okajima [ja] (Won PR seat)	52,018	32.42	New
	Kibō no Tō	Mari Kushibuchi	22,962	14.31	New
Majority			33,443	20.85
Registered electors			336,797
Turnout				48.60	1.71
	LDP hold

Chiba 3rd district

Since 2002

1994 - 2002

List of representatives

Election results

2026

2024

2021

2017

2014

2012

2009

2005

2003

2000

1996

References

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Chiba 3rd district
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of the Chiba Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Chiba
Proportional District	Southern Kanto
Electorate	333,990^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representatives	Hirokazu Matsuno
Municipalities	Midori-ku of Chiba, Ichihara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno (Incumbent)	85,277	53.37	9.13
	People's Life	Kazumasa Okajima [ja]	30,238	18.92	New
	Democratic	Asuka Aoyama	29,656	18.56	2.68
	JCP	Yohei Kabasawa	14,611	9.15	4.05
Majority			55,039	34.45
Registered electors			327,236
Turnout				50.31	7.45
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno	80,710	44.24	1.78
	Tomorrow	Kazumasa Okajima [ja] (Incumbent)	31,161	17.08	New
	Restoration	Takashi Kobayashi	30,565	16.75	New
	Democratic	Asuka Aoyama	28,979	15.88	39.58
	JCP	Tadashi Ishikawa	9,298	5.10	N/A
	Independent	Yukiko Inoue	1,723	0.95	New
Majority			49,549	27.16
Registered electors			325,289
Turnout				57.76	6.81
	LDP gain from Tomorrow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kazumasa Okajima [ja]	112,035	55.46	13.57
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno (Incumbent) (Won PR seat)	85,777	42.46	10.78
	Happiness Realization	Yūzō Furukawa	4,210	2.08	New
Majority			26,258	13.00
Registered electors			320,113
Turnout				64.57	2.29
	Democratic gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno	108,937	53.24	5.94
	Democratic	Kazumasa Okajima [ja] (Incumbent)	85,707	41.89	5.92
	JCP	Mitsumasa Konno	9,957	4.87	0.02
Majority			23,230	11.35
Registered electors			310,927
Turnout				66.86	6.93
	LDP gain from Democratic

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kazumasa Okajima [ja]	85,610	47.81	25.77
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno (Incumbent) (Won PR seat)	84,693	47.30	8.29
	JCP	Mitsumasa Konno	8,768	4.89	6.26
Majority			917	0.51
Registered electors			305,727
Turnout				59.93	0.61
	Democratic gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno	95,311	39.01	4.56
	New Conservative	Masayuki Okajima [ja] (Incumbent)	64,182	26.27	New
	Democratic	Keiji Takeuchi	53,862	22.04	New
	JCP	Yasuyo Kurosu	27,248	11.15	3.28
	Liberal League	Seigō Fujino	3,725	1.53	0.69
Majority			31,129	12.74
Registered electors			414,880
Turnout				60.54
	LDP gain from New Conservative

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Masayuki Okajima [ja]	84,846	39.90	*New*
	LDP	Hirokazu Matsuno	73,254	34.45	New
	JCP	Michiko Chiba	30,691	14.43	New
	Democratic	Keiji Takeuchi	22,068	10.38	New
	Liberal League	Mitsumoto Higashi	1,765	0.84	New
Majority			11,592	5.45
Registered electors
Turnout
	New Frontier win (new seat)

v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Eisuke Mori, Chiba 11th Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Keiichi Ishii, Northern Kanto PR
Hokkaidō	Block 8 seats Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku	Block 12 seats Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō	Block 19 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 16
Minami- (South) Kantō	Block 23 seats Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo	Block 19 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 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu	Block 10 seats Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai	Block 21 seats Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki	Block 28 seats Shiga 1 2 3 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 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku	Block 10 seats Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku	Block 6 seats Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū	Block 20 seats Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Former districts	Abolished in 2002 Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4 Abolished in 2013 Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3 Abolished in 2017 Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5 Abolished in 2022 Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4