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. It is located in South central Kyoto and consists of Kyoto city's Fushimi ward, the cities of Mukō and Nagaokakyō and the town of Ōyamazaki. As of 2012, 345,260 eligible voters were registered in the district.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
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 (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:
Fushimi-ku Mukō Nagaokakyō Otokuni District
List of representatives Representative Party Dates Notes Iwao Teramae JCP 1996 – 2000 Retired from politics in 2000 Shigehiko Okuyama LDP 2000 – 2003 Failed reelection in the Kinki PR block Kenta Izumi DPJ 2003 – 2012 Re-elected in the Kinki PR bloc in 2012 and 2014 Kensuke Miyazaki LDP 2012 – 2016 Resigned mid-term Kenta Izumi DP 2016 – 2017 Leader of the CDP Nov. 2021 – Sep. 2024 Kibō no Tō 2017 – 2018 DPP 2018 – 2020 CDP 2020 – 2026 CRA 2026 –
Election results
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