Kyōto 3rd district (京都府第3区 ''Kyōto-fu dai-san-ku'' or simply 京都3区 ''Kyōto sanku'') is a constituency of the

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. It is located in South central

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and consists of

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, the cities of

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and Nagaokakyō and the town of Ōyamazaki. As of 2012, 345,260 eligible voters were registered in the district. Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area formed part of Kyōto 2nd district where five Representatives had been elected by

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(SNTV). Kyoto had been a traditional stronghold of the

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(JCP); but following the electoral reform that replaced the SNTV multi-member districts with

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single-member districts, the 3rd district was the only one in Kyōto the JCP could win:

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was one of only two JCP candidates countrywide to win a district seat under the new system in the 1996 general election (the other being

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). After Teramae's retirement in the 2000 election, Liberal Democrat

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who had narrowly lost to Teramae in ’96 won the district in 2000 when the center-left to left vote was split between a Communist, a Social Democrat and a Democrat. In three following elections, the Social Democratic Party did not nominate a candidate and the Communist vote share dropped below 20 percent and since 2003, Democrat

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won the 3rd district three times. In 2012, Izumi lost the district by 216 votes to 31-year-old Liberal Democratic newcomer

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. In 2016, Miyazaki resigned because of a personal scandal and Izumi regained his seat in the subsequent by-elections.

Areas Covered

Current District

As of 5 January 2023, the areas covered by this district are as follows: * Fushimi-ku *

* Nagaokakyō * Otokuni District

List of representatives

Election results

References

{{coord missing, Kyoto Prefecture Politics of Kyoto Prefecture Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)