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Yamaguchi 3rd District
Yamaguchi 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Yamaguchi Prefecture; single-member districts
Prefecture	Yamaguchi
Proportional District	Chūgoku
Electorate	256,039 (2021)
Major settlements	Ube, Hagi City, San'yō-Onoda, Mine, Yamaguchi and Abu
Current constituency
Created	1994
Party	LDP
Representative	Yoshimasa 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 Mid-Western Yamaguchi and consists of the cities of Ube, Hagi City, San'yō-Onoda, Mine, Yamaguchi and Abu.

List of representatives

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

Election results

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP （ Komeito）	Yoshimasa Hayashi	96,983	76.94	5.62
	CDP	Fumiko Sakamoto	29,073	23.06	5.62
Margin of victory			67,904	53,88	11.25
Turnout				50.14	5.39
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	5,62

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP （ Komeito）	Takeo Kawamura	103,173	71.3	2.9
	CDP	Fumiko Sakamoto	41,497	28.7	New
Margin of victory			61,676	42.63
Turnout			144,670	55.53	3.33
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	2.9

2014^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP （ Komeito）	Takeo Kawamura	93,248	68.4	2.4
	DPJ	Noboru Miura	29,329	21.5	2.7
	JCP	Takeshi Fujii	13,818	10.1	0.2
Margin of victory			63,919	46.86
Turnout			136,395	52.20	5.78
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	2.4

2012^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP （ Komeito）^[5]	Takeo Kawamura	107,833	70.8	10.7
	DPJ	Daisuke Nakaya	28,663	18.8	19.5
	JCP	Hitomi Igarashi	15,709	10.3	-
Margin of victory			79,170	52.02
Turnout			152,205	57.98	12.34
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	10.7

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeo Kawamura	115,757	60.1	2.1
	DPJ	Noboru Miura	73,760	38.3	9.0
	HRP	Shuichi Tsuda	3,159	1.6	New
Margin of victory			41,997	21.79
Turnout			192,671	70.32	2.29
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	2.1

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeo Kawamura	118,412	62.2	1.0
	DPJ	Noboru Miura	55,815	29.3	0.4
	JCP	Goto Hiroshi	16,124	8.5	0.6
Margin of victory			62,597	32.88
Turnout			190,351	68.03	4.89
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	1.0

2003^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeo Kawamura	111,658	63.2	4.9
	DPJ	Susumu Iwamoto	50,975	28.9	7.2
	JCP	Teruhisa Tanaka	13,909	7.9	2.3
Margin of victory			60,683	34.37
Turnout			176,542	63.14	1.74
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	4.9

2000^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeo Kawamura	120,527	68.1	1.4
	JCP	Junichiro Iris	38,507	21.7	3.0
	LLJ	Nobuo Sasaki	18,022	10.2	New
Margin of victory			82,020	46.32
Turnout			177,056	64.88	-
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	1.4

1996^[10]
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

^ "山口3区". go2senkyo. initial.inc. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
^ 開票速報小選挙区：山口 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b Asahai Shimbun: election results in Yamaguchi's single-member districts
^ 第46回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (The Senkyo, lit. "The Election[s]", a website about elections in Japan with an election results database covering all national elections since 1890 and recent prefectural and municipal elections; originally created by citizen online newspaper JANJAN and resold twice) (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
^ Yomiuri Shimbun: election results in Yamaguchi's single-member districts
^ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
^ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
^ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
^ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
^ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

[1] "山口3区". go2senkyo. initial.inc. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

[2] 開票速報小選挙区：山口 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 13 November 2021.

[asahi_A35-3] Asahai Shimbun: election results in Yamaguchi's single-member districts

[4] 第46回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (The Senkyo, lit. "The Election[s]", a website about elections in Japan with an election results database covering all national elections since 1890 and recent prefectural and municipal elections; originally created by citizen online newspaper JANJAN and resold twice) (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-12-19.

[5] Yomiuri Shimbun: election results in Yamaguchi's single-member districts

[6] 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

[7] 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

[8] 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

[9] 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

[10] 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

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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, 23 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, 32 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, 33 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, 25 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, 19 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, 32 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, 47 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, 20 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, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū ( 20 block seats, 35 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

Yamaguchi 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Yamaguchi Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Yamaguchi
Proportional District	Chūgoku
Electorate	256,039 (2021)^[1]
Major settlements	Ube, Hagi City, San'yō-Onoda, Mine, Yamaguchi and Abu
Current constituency
Created	1994
Party	LDP
Representative	Yoshimasa Hayashi