Nara 3rd district (奈良県第3区, Nara-ken dai-sanku or simply 奈良3区, Nara-sanku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the National Diet of Japan located in Nara Prefecture.
| Nara 3rd District | |
|---|---|
| Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives | |
 Numbered map of Nara Prefecture single-member districts | |
| Prefecture | Nara |
| Proportional District | Kinki |
| Electorate | 352,656[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1994 |
| Seats | One |
| Party | Liberal Democratic |
| Representative | Taido Tanose |
| Municipalities | Gojō, Gose, Kashihara, Katsuragi, Sakurai, Uda, Yamatotakada, Takaichi District, Uda District, and Yoshino District |
LDP candidate Taido Tanose was elected in 2017. Tanose resigned from the party and ran as an Independent in the 2021 election following reports that he had visited a hostess club during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tokyo.[2] After reelection, he rejoined the LDP.
List of representatives
edit| Election | Representative | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Seisuke Okuno | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2000 | ||||
| 2003 | Shinsuke Okuno | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2005 | ||||
| 2009 | Masashige Yoshikawa | Democratic | ||
| 2012 | Shinsuke Okuno | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2014 | ||||
| 2017 | Taido Tanose | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2021 | Independent | |||
| 2024 | Liberal Democratic | |||
| 2026 | ||||
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Taido Tanose | 120,018 | 62.8 |  13.6 | |
| Ishin | Daisuke Harayama (elected in Kinki PR block) | 37,067 | 19.4 |  2.9 | |
| JCP | Atsushi Oota | 22,018 | 11.5 | 0.6 | |
| Independent | Hiroaki Yagi | 11,868 | 6.2 | ||
| Registered electors | 338,448 | ||||
| Turnout | 59.40 | 2.40 | |||
| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Taido Tanose | 92,379 | 49.2 | 11.6 | |
| Ishin | Daisuke Harayama | 41,897 | 22.3 | ||
| CDP | Yasushi Kawato | 33,101 | 17.6 | ||
| JCP | Atsushi Oota | 20,543 | 10.9 | 7.3 | |
| Registered electors | 343,656 | ||||
| Turnout | 57.00 | 0.19 | |||
| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Taido Tanose (Incumbent) |
114,553 | 60.81 | New | |
| Communist | Masakatsu Nishikawa | 34,334 | 18.23 | ||
| Independent | Shoji Takami | 32,669 | 17.34 | New | |
| Anti-NHK | Takashi Kato | 6,824 | 3.62 | New | |
| Registered electors | 355,246 | ||||
| Turnout | 57.19 | 1.69 | |||
| Independent hold | |||||
＊Tanose returned to the LDP after being elected.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Taido Tanose (Incumbent-Nara 4th) |
122,341 | 61.62 | ||
| Kibō no Tō | Kiyoshige Maekawa | 55,721 | 28.07 | New | |
| Communist | Susumu Tokoro | 20,469 | 10.31 | ||
| Registered electors | 369,148 | ||||
| Turnout | 55.50 | 1.75 | |||
| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Shinsuke Okuno (Incumbent) |
79,334 | 52.64 | ||
| Innovation | Eriko Kurihara | 46,556 | 30.89 | New | |
| Communist | Atsushi Masaki | 24,828 | 16.47 | ||
| Registered electors | 291,571 | ||||
| Turnout | 53.75 | 8.52 | |||
| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Shinsuke Okuno | 76,073 | 43.12 | |||
| Restoration | Masayoshi Nishimine | 49,928 | 28.30 | New | ||
| Democratic | Masashige Yoshikawa (Incumbent) |
35,974 | 20.39 | |||
| Communist | Yoshinori Mameda | 14,466 | 8.20 | |||
| Registered electors | 291,732 | |||||
| Turnout | 62.27 | 9.58 | ||||
| LDP gain from Democratic | ||||||
References
edit- ↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
- ↑ "VOX POPULI: Entitlement on full display as lawmakers flout own curfew rules". Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
- ↑ 開票速報 小選挙区：奈良 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ↑ "2021年衆議院総選挙 奈良3区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ↑ "2017衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ↑ "2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
- ↑ "開票結果 小選挙区 奈良". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2023-10-29.