Yamaguchi 3rd district

Yamaguchi 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Yamaguchi Prefecture
single-member districts
PrefectureYamaguchi
Proportional DistrictChūgoku
Electorate342,813 (2023)[1]
Current constituency
Created1994
PartyLDP
RepresentativeYoshimasa Hayashi

Yamaguchi 3rd district (山口県第3区) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Western Yamaguchi Prefecture and includes Shimonoseki the largest city in the prefecture.

Area

Before redistricting in 2022, Shimonoseki and Nagato had been a part of the abolished Yamaguchi 4th district.

List of representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Takeo Kawamura LDP 1996 – 2021
Yoshimasa Hayashi LDP 2021 – Minister for Foreign Affairs

Election results

2024[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yoshimasa Hayashi 115,687 69.7 Decrease10.2
Ishin Hirofumi Itō 32,259 19.4
JCP Masako Fukiage 18,105 10.9
Turnout 50.43 Increase0.29
LDP hold
2021[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP
（Komeito) 		Yoshimasa Hayashi 96,983 76.94 Increase5.62
CDP Fumiko Sakamoto 29,073 23.06 Decrease5.62
Margin of victory 67,904 53,88 Increase11.25
LDP hold Swing Increase5,62
Turnout 50.14 Increase5.39
2017[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP
（Komeito） 		Takeo Kawamura 103,173 71.3 Increase2.9
CDP Fumiko Sakamoto 41,497 28.7 New
Margin of victory 61,676 42.63
Turnout 144,670 55.53 Increase3.33
LDP hold Swing Increase2.9
2014[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP
（Komeito） 		Takeo Kawamura 93,248 68.4 Decrease2.4
DPJ Noboru Miura 29,329 21.5 Increase2.7
JCP Takeshi Fujii 13,818 10.1 Decrease0.2
Margin of victory 63,919 46.86
Turnout 136,395 52.20 Decrease5.78
LDP hold Swing Decrease2.4
2012[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP
（Komeito）[6] 		Takeo Kawamura 107,833 70.8 Increase10.7
DPJ Daisuke Nakaya 28,663 18.8 Decrease19.5
JCP Hitomi Igarashi 15,709 10.3 −
Margin of victory 79,170 52.02
Turnout 152,205 57.98 Decrease12.34
LDP hold Swing Increase10.7
2009[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takeo Kawamura 115,757 60.1 Decrease2.1
DPJ Noboru Miura 73,760 38.3 Increase9.0
HRP Shuichi Tsuda 3,159 1.6 New
Margin of victory 41,997 21.79
Turnout 192,671 70.32 Increase2.29
LDP hold Swing Decrease2.1
2005[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takeo Kawamura 118,412 62.2 Decrease1.0
DPJ Noboru Miura 55,815 29.3 Increase0.4
JCP Goto Hiroshi 16,124 8.5 Increase0.6
Margin of victory 62,597 32.88
Turnout 190,351 68.03 Increase4.89
LDP hold Swing Decrease1.0
2003[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takeo Kawamura 111,658 63.2 Increase4.9
DPJ Susumu Iwamoto 50,975 28.9 Increase7.2
JCP Teruhisa Tanaka 13,909 7.9 Decrease2.3
Margin of victory 60,683 34.37
Turnout 176,542 63.14 Decrease1.74
LDP hold Swing Increase4.9
2000[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takeo Kawamura 120,527 68.1 Decrease1.4
JCP Junichiro Iris 38,507 21.7 Increase3.0
LLJ Nobuo Sasaki 18,022 10.2 New
Margin of victory 82,020 46.32
Turnout 177,056 64.88 −
LDP hold Swing Decrease1.4
1996[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takeo Kawamura 108,995 69.5 New
JCP Tenmaya Kosei 29,337 18.7 New
Independent Nobuo Sasaki 12,834 8.2 New
Independent Etsoo Ito 5,599 3.6 New
Margin of victory 79,658 50.81 −
Turnout 156,765 - −

References

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