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	CDP
Representative	Katsuya Okada

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.

Area

List of representatives

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–

Election results

2024^[3]
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

2021^[4]
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

2017^[5]
	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

2014^[6]
	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

2012^[7]
	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

2009^[8]
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

2005^[9]
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

2003^[10]
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

2000^[11]
	Candidate	Votes	%
DPJ	Katsuya Okada	117,868	54.2
LDP	Kōichi Hirata	82,222	37.8
JCP	Ritsuko Hoshino	17,547	8.1

1996^[12]
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

References

^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
^ 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
^ "2024年衆議院議員総選挙三重3区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved January 31, 2025.
^ 小選挙区三重3区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
^ 総選挙2017>開票結果小選挙区三重. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2018-01-21. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
^ 総選挙2014>開票結果小選挙区三重. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2015-01-09.
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区三重. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-27.
^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>三重県>三重3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>三重県>三重3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
^ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>三重県>三重3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>三重県>三重3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>三重県>三重3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-09.

[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)

[2] 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

[3] "2024年衆議院議員総選挙三重3区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved January 31, 2025.

[4] 小選挙区三重3区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 5 July 2023.

[5] 総選挙2017>開票結果小選挙区三重. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2018-01-21. Retrieved 2017-10-31.

[6] 総選挙2014>開票結果小選挙区三重. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2015-01-09.

[7] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区三重. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-27.

[8] 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>三重県>三重3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-09.

[9] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>三重県>三重3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-09.

[10] 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>三重県>三重3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-09.

[11] 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>三重県>三重3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-09.

[12] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>三重県>三重3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-09.

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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	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
Eliminated districts	Eliminiated in 2002 Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4 Eliminiated in 2013 Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3 Eliminiated in 2017 Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5 Eliminiated in 2022 Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4