Nara 3rd district

Nara 3rd district (奈良県第3区, Nara-ken dai-sanku or simply 奈良3区, Nara-sanku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Nara Prefecture.

Nara 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Nara Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Nara
Proportional District	Kinki
Electorate	352,656[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Liberal Democratic
Representative	Taido Tanose
Municipalities	Gojō, Gose, Kashihara, Katsuragi, Sakurai, Uda, Yamatotakada, Takaichi District, Uda District, and Yoshino District

LDP candidate Taido Tanose was elected in 2017. After it was revealed that during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tokyo Tanose had visited a hostess club he resigned from the party and ran as an Independent in the 2021 election.^[2] After reelection he rejoined the LDP.

List of representatives

Election	Representative	Party		Notes
1996	Seisuke Okuno [ja]		Liberal Democratic
2000
2003	Shinsuke Okuno		Liberal Democratic
2005
2009	Masashige Yoshikawa [ja]		Democratic
2012	Shinsuke Okuno		Liberal Democratic
2014
2017	Taido Tanose		Liberal Democratic
2021			Independent
2024			Liberal Democratic

Election results

2024^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Taido Tanose	92,379	49.2	11.6
	Ishin	Daisuke Harayama	41,897	22.3
	CDP	Yasushi Kawato	33,101	17.6
	JCP	Atsushi Oota	20,543	10.9	7.3
Registered electors			343,656
Turnout				57.00	0.19
	LDP hold

2021^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Taido Tanose (Incumbent)	114,553	60.81	New
	Communist	Masakatsu Nishikawa	34,334	18.23
	Independent	Shoji Takami [ja]	32,669	17.34	New
	Anti-NHK	Takashi Kato	6,824	3.62	New
Registered electors			355,246
Turnout				57.19	1.69
	Independent hold

＊Tanose returned to the LDP after being elected.

2017^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Taido Tanose (Incumbent-Nara 4th)	122,341	61.62
	Kibō no Tō	Kiyoshige Maekawa	55,721	28.07	New
	Communist	Susumu Tokoro	20,469	10.31
Registered electors			369,148
Turnout				55.50	1.75
	LDP hold

2014^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shinsuke Okuno (Incumbent)	79,334	52.64
	Innovation	Eriko Kurihara	46,556	30.89	New
	Communist	Atsushi Masaki	24,828	16.47
Registered electors			291,571
Turnout				53.75	8.52
	LDP hold

2012^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shinsuke Okuno	76,073	43.12
	Restoration	Masayoshi Nishimine	49,928	28.30	New
	Democratic	Masashige Yoshikawa [ja] (Incumbent)	35,974	20.39
	Communist	Yoshinori Mameda	14,466	8.20
Registered electors			291,732
Turnout				62.27	9.58
	LDP gain from Democratic