Gunma 3rd district was a constituency of the
House of Representatives in the
Diet of Japan
The is the national legislature of Japan. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives (, ''Shūgiin''), and an upper house, the House of Councillors (, '' Sangiin''). Both houses are directly elected under a paralle ...
(national legislature). Between 1947 and 1993 it elected four representatives by
single non-transferable vote
Single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used to elect multiple winners. It is a generalization of first-past-the-post, applied to multi-member districts with each voter casting just one vote. Unlike FPTP, which is a single-winn ...
. As of 1993, it comprised the cities of
Takasaki,
Shibukawa
is a city in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 76,098 in 32,439 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city is . Shibukawa is the location of Ikaho Onsen, a popular hot spring resort.
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,
Fujioka,
Tomioka,
Annaka
240px, Edo-period Usui Magistrate’s office in Annaka
is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 47,911 in 24,749 households, and a population density of 210 persons per km². The total area of the ...
and the
Gunma,
Kitagunma,
Tano,
Kanra,
Usui
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and
Agatsuma districts.
The district was a traditional "conservative kingdom" (''
hoshu-ōkoku''), a stronghold of the
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its predecessors. It was, most notably, represented by several faction leaders and later prime ministers:
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Yasuhiro Nakasone,
Takeo Fukuda and later his son
Yasuo – all three prime ministers – from the conservative anti-mainstream (Democratic Party, Progressive Party, Hatoyama faction) and
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Keizo Obuchi and previously his father
Mitsuhei from the conservative mainstream (Democratic Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Yoshida faction).
With only two exceptions Gunma's 3rd district was represented by three conservatives and one candidate from the
Japan Socialist Party
The was a socialist and progressive political party in Japan that existed from 1945 to 1996. The party was founded as the Social Democratic Party of Japan by members of several proletarian parties that existed before World War II, including ...
(JSP).
Tsuruo Yamaguchi, in the 1980s JSP secretary-general, was elected eleven times between 1960 and 1993, never receiving the most votes and ranking second only once in 1990.
Summary of results during the 1955 party system
Elected Representatives
References
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Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)
Gunma Prefecture