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Japan House of Representatives constituency

Fukushima 3rd district
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Fukushima Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Fukushima
Proportional District	Tōhoku
Electorate	324,732 (Sept. 2024)
Current constituency
Created	1994 (Redistricted in 2022)
Seats	One
Party	CDP
Representative	Shinji Oguma

Fukushima 3rd district (福島3区, Fukushimasan-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.

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	Transferred to the 2nd district
2024	Shinji Oguma	CDP	Transferred from the 4th district

Election results

2024
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Shinji Oguma	96,814	54.8	0.6
	Independent	Kentarō Uesugi	68,133	38.6	7.2
	JCP	Norio Karahashi	11,715	6.6
Registered electors			323,682
Turnout				56.71	7.31
	CDP hold

2021
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Kōichirō Genba	90,457	54.2	4.4
	LDP	Kentarō Uesugi (elected by PR)	76,302	45.8	9.2
Turnout				64.05	3.09
	CDP hold

2017
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Kōichirō Genba	92,930	56.6	3.4
	LDP	Kentarō Uesugi (elected by PR)	60,006	36.6	5.4
	JCP	Kenji Hashimoto	11,196	6.8	2.0
Turnout				60.96	5.18
	Independent hold

2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kōichirō Genba	94,462	60.0	2.3
	LDP	Kentarō Uesugi	49,174	31.2	3.0
	JCP	Yōko Yokota	13,824	8.8	0.6
Turnout				55.78	5.91
	Democratic hold

2012
	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
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
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Kōichirō Genba	143,850	68.6
	LDP	Susumu Hasumi	65,996	31.4
Turnout			216,252	72.29

2003
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
	Candidate	Votes	%
DPJ	Kōichirō Genba	118,385	53.8
LDP	Yoshiyuki Hozumi	91,081	41.4
JCP	Shōichi Suzuki	10,683	4.9

1996
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): (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 (in Japanese)
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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

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