Yamagata 3rd district (山形県第3区, Yamagata-ken dai-sanku or simply 山形3区, Yamagata-sanku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Yamagata Prefecture.
| Yamagata 3rd District | |
|---|---|
| Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives | |
 Numbered map of Yamagata Prefecture single-member districts | |
| Prefecture | Yamagata |
| Proportional District | Tohoku |
| Electorate | 284,580 [1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1994 |
| Seats | One |
| Party | Liberal Democratic |
| Representative | Ayuko Kato |
| Municipalities | Sakata, Shinjō, Tsuruoka, Akumi District, Higashitagawa District, and Mogami District |
List of representatives
edit| Election | Representative | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Riichiro Chikaoka | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2000 | ||||
| 2003 | Koichi Kato | Independent | ||
| 2005 | Liberal Democratic | |||
| 2009 | ||||
| 2012 | Juichi Abe | Independent | ||
| 2014 | Ayuko Kato | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2017 | ||||
| 2021 | ||||
Election Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Ayuko Kato (Incumbent) |
108,558 | 58.06 | ||
| Independent | Hitomi Abe | 66,320 | 35.47 | New | |
| Communist | Takeshi Umeki | 12,100 | 6.47 | ||
| Registered electors | 287,642 | ||||
| Turnout | 65.74 |  1.01
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| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Ayuko Kato (Incumbent) |
103,973 | 52.18 | ||
| Kibō no Tō | Juichi Abe | 81,708 | 41.01 | New | |
| Communist | Taichi Kato | 11,241 | 5.64 | ||
| Happiness Realization | Ryota Shirotori | 2,329 | 1.17 | ||
| Registered electors | 302,085 | ||||
| Turnout | 66.75 |  4.79
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| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Ayuko Kato | 79,872 | 42.86 | |||
| Independent | Juichi Abe (Incumbent) |
78,384 | 42.06 | |||
| Democratic | Taisei Yoshida | 15,981 | 8.58 | |||
| Communist | Tsuyoshi Hasegawa | 10,794 | 5.79 | |||
| Independent | Makoto Sato | 1,319 | 0.71 | New | ||
| Registered electors | 305,295 | |||||
| Turnout | 61.96 | 3.36
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| LDP gain from Independent | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Juichi Abe | 71,768 | 35.98 | New | ||
| Liberal Democratic | Koichi Kato (Incumbent) |
70,303 | 35.24 | |||
| Restoration | Takeharu Sato | 25,299 | 12.68 | New | ||
| Social Democratic | Hideo Yoshiizumi (Incumbent-Tohoku PR block) |
22,930 | 11.50 | |||
| Communist | Tsuyoshi Hasegawa | 9,170 | 4.60 | |||
| Registered electors | 311,172 | |||||
| Turnout | 65.32 | 8.53
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| Independent gain from LDP | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Koichi Kato (Incumbent) |
130,502 | 56.86 | ||
| Social Democratic | Hideo Yoshiizumi (elected by Tohoku PR block) |
80,362 | 35.01 | ||
| Communist | Tsuyoshi Hasegawa | 13,789 | 6.01 | ||
| Happiness Realization | Ryota Shirotori | 4,880 | 2.13 | New | |
| Registered electors | 318,892 | ||||
| Turnout | 73.85 | 1.65
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| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Koichi Kato (Incumbent) |
159,486 | 69.58 | ||
| Social Democratic | Hajime Sato | 49,057 | 21.40 | ||
| Communist | Yoshio Misawa | 20,657 | 9.01 | ||
| Registered electors | 327,511 | ||||
| Turnout | 72.20 | 0.11
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| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Koichi Kato (endorsed by Liberal Democratic) |
137,206 | 58.92 | New | ||
| Democratic | Jun Saito (Incumbent-Yamagata 4th) |
84,946 | 34.20 | |||
| Communist | Masayuki Sato | 10,735 | 4.61 | |||
| Turnout | 72.09 | |||||
| Independent gain from LDP | ||||||
- Kato returned to the LDP after the election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Riichiro Chikaoka (Incumbent) |
88,069 | 57.22 | ||
| Social Democratic | Shosuke Saito | 55,891 | 36.32 | ||
| Communist | Mieko Kudo | 9,944 | 6.46 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Riichiro Chikaoka | 88,389 | 58.08 | New | |
| Independent | Shosuke Saito | 54,640 | 35.90 | New | |
| Communist | Koji Endo | 9,162 | 6.02 | New | |
| Turnout | |||||
References
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