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]

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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.

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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–

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

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

	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

	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

Mie 3rd district

Area

List of representatives

Election results

References

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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