Fukushima 3rd district

Fukushima 3rd district (福島[県第]3区, Fukushima[-ken dai-]san-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, located in Western Fukushima Prefecture. The electoral district lies mostly in the Aizu region and consists of the cities of Aizuwakamatsu, Shirakawa and Kitakata and six districts: Minamiaizu, Higashishirakawa, Yama, Kawanuma, Ōnuma and Nishishirakawa. As of 2012, 293,378 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of the multi-member Fukushima 2nd district that elected five Representatives by single non-transferable vote.

After the district's creation, then Liberal Democrat Hiroyuki Arai (later New Party Nippon, New Renaissance Party) narrowly beat Democrat Kōichirō Genba who won a seat in the Tōhoku proportional representation block. Both had been elected to the House in the pre-reform 2nd district in 1993 for the first time. Since the LDP was using the Costa Rica method (kosuta rika hōshiki) in Fukushima 3rd district, Arai only ran in the PR block in the 2000 general election and was replaced by Yoshiyuki Hozumi as district candidate, another of the three former LDP representatives from the pre-reform 2nd district (The third, Fumiaki Saitō, stood as LDP candidate in Fukushima 4th district in 1996, but lost). But Genba won the 3rd district in 2000 and has held onto the district seat since. After Arai's unsuccessful re-run in 2003, the LDP discontinued the Costa Rica alternation. Genba was appointed minister of state and Democratic Party policy affairs chief under party president/prime minister Naoto Kan in 2010.

List of representatives

Election	Representative	Party	Notes
1996	Hiroyuki Arai	LDP
2000	Kōichirō Genba	DPJ
2003
2005
2009
2012
2014
2017		Independent
2021		CDP	Incumbent

Election results

2024
Party		Candidate
	Constitutional Democratic	Kōichirō Genba
	Independent	Kentarō Uesugi
	Communist	Norio Karahashi
Turnout

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutional Democratic	Kōichirō Genba	90,457	54.2	4.4
	Liberal Democratic	Kentarō Uesugi (elected by PR)	76,302	45.8	9.2
Turnout				64.05	3.09
	Constitutional Democratic hold

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Kōichirō Genba	92,930	56.6	3.4
	Liberal Democratic	Kentarō Uesugi (elected by PR)	60,006	36.6	5.4
	Communist	Kenji Hashimoto	11,196	6.8	2.0
Turnout				60.96	5.18
	Independent hold

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kōichirō Genba	94,462	60.0	2.3
	Liberal Democratic	Kentarō Uesugi	49,174	31.2	3.0
	Communist	Yōko Yokota	13,824	8.8	0.6
Turnout				55.78	5.91
	Democratic hold

2012^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
DPJ (PNP)	Kōichirō Genba	107,737	62.3
LDP (NRP)	Sachiko Kanno (elected by PR)	48,796	28.2
JCP	Toshie Oyamada	16,313	9.4

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ (PNP support)	Kōichirō Genba	159,826	73.8
	LDP (Kōmeitō, JRP support)	Masayoshi Yoshino (elected by PR)	56,858	26.2
Turnout			221,345	74.26

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Kōichirō Genba	143,850	68.6
	LDP	Susumu Hasumi	65,996	31.4
Turnout			216,252	72.29

2003^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Kōichirō Genba	110,606	52.0
	LDP	Hiroyuki Arai	94,413	44.4
	JCP	Shōichi Suzuki	7,522	3.5
Turnout			215,981	72.54

2000^[9]
	Candidate	Votes	%
DPJ	Kōichirō Genba	118,385	53.8
LDP	Yoshiyuki Hozumi	91,081	41.4
JCP	Shōichi Suzuki	10,683	4.9

1996^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Hiroyuki Arai	91,747.000	46.2
	DPJ	Kōichirō Genba (elected by PR)	88,214.000	44.4
	JCP	Shōichi Suzuki	11,031.381	5.6
	Independent	Naoyuki Suzuki	7,688.109	3.9
Turnout			204,082	70.89

References

^ 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 (in Japanese)
^ 小選挙区福島3区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
^ 小選挙区福島3区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
^ 2014年12月14日(日) 投票小選挙区福島3区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区福島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
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^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
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[1] 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 (in Japanese)

[2] 小選挙区福島3区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 21 June 2023.

[3] 小選挙区福島3区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.

[4] 2014年12月14日(日) 投票小選挙区福島3区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.

[5] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区福島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[6] 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.

[7] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.

[8] 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.

[9] 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.

[10] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>福島県>福島3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-15.

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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: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district 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 (19 block seats, 33 district 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 (23 block seats, 36 district 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 (19 block seats, 30 district 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 (10 block seats, 18 district 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 (21 block seats, 33 district 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 (28 block seats, 45 district 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 (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district 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
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4