Mie 3rd district

Mie 3rd District
Mie 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Mie Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Mie
Proportional District	Tōkai
Electorate	410,467 (September 2024)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Masataka Ishihara [ja]

PrefectureMie

Proportional DistrictTōkai

Electorate410,467^[1] (September 2024)

Created1994

Mie 3rd district (三重県第3区, Mie-ken dai-san-ku or simply 三重3区, Mie-san-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It covers Northern parts of Mie Prefecture. In 2012, 339,451 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[2]

The only representative for the 3rd district since its creation has been Katsuya Okada who had represented the pre-reform Mie 1st district that had elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote and covered roughly the present single-member districts Mie 1, 2 and 3. Okada was the president of the DPJ from 2004 to 2005.

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Representative		Dates	Notes
Katsuya Okada	NFP	1996–1997	Joined Michihiko Kano's Kokumin no Koe ("Voice of the People") after the dissolution of the NFP (NFP→Kokumin no Koe→Minseitō→DPJ)
	DPJ	1997–2016
	DP	2016–2017
	Ind.	2017–2020
	CDP	2020–2026
Masataka Ishihara [ja]	LDP	2026-

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Masataka Ishihara	99,392	42.11	17.12
	Centrist Reform	Katsuya Okada	90,701	38.42	22.46
	Sanseitō	Megumi Shintani	22,702	9.62
	CPJ	Masashi Itō	16,907	7.16
	JCP	Tamiko Kinugasa	6,345	2.69
Registered electors			406,846
Turnout			236,047	58.80	2.16
	LDP gain from Centrist Reform

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Katsuya Okada	137,953	60.9	3.2
	LDP	Masataka Ishihara	56,630	25.0	10.9
	Ishin	Masashi Itō	31,988	14.1
Registered electors			409,266
Turnout				56.64	1.33
	CDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Katsuya Okada	144,688	64.1	0.2
	LDP	Masataka Ishihara (won a seat in Tōkai PR block)	81,209	35.9	8.2
Turnout				55.31	0.72
	CDP hold

	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Democratic	Katsuya Okada	147,255	64.3	+0.3
LDP	Yoshikazu Shimada	63,406	27.7	−0.7
JCP	Masahiro Nomura	11,864	5.3	−2.3
HRP	Maki Sakamoto	6,354	2.8	new

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Mie 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Mie Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Mie
Proportional District	Tōkai
Electorate	410,467^[1] (September 2024)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Masataka Ishihara [ja]

	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
DPJ	Katsuya Okada	120,950	64.0	-0.1
LDP	Kōji Shimada	53,659	28.4	new
JCP	Toshiyuki Kamai	14,293	7.6	−0.5

	Candidate	Votes	%
DPJ	Katsuya Okada	126,679	64.1
LDP	Hiroshi Sakurai (won proportional seat)	54,903	27.8
JCP	Toshiyuki Kamai	16,009	8.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ (PNP support)	Katsuya Okada	173,931	72.2
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Kōichi Hirata	62,993	26.1
	HRP	Noriko Nohara	3,968	1.6
Turnout			244,439	73.08

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Katsuya Okada	140,954	60.1
	LDP	Kōichi Hirata (elected by PR)	81,719	34.8
	JCP	Ritsuko Hoshino	11,895	5.1
Turnout			237,207	72.63

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Katsuya Okada	132,109	62.5
	LDP	Kōichi Hirata (elected by PR)	67,247	31.8
	JCP	Ritsuko Hoshino	13,562	5.6
Turnout			216,280	67.1

	Candidate	Votes	%
DPJ	Katsuya Okada	117,868	54.2
LDP	Kōichi Hirata	82,222	37.8
JCP	Ritsuko Hoshino	17,547	8.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	NFP	Katsuya Okada	108,690	57.9
	LDP	Kazuya Kaneko	58,507	31.1
	JCP	Taneko Nishio	20,657	11.0
Turnout			192,419	63.2

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