Gunma 3rd district

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Gunma 3rd District
群馬県第3区
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives

Prefecture	Gunma
Proportional Block	Northern Kanto
Electorate	320,516 (as of 1 September 2022)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representatives	Hiroyoshi Sasakawa

Gunma 3rd district (群馬県第3区, Gunma-ken dai-san-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in south-eastern Gunma and consists of Ota, Tatebayashi and Ōra County.

Areas covered[edit]

Current district[edit]

As of 24 January 2023, the areas covered by this district are as follows:^[2]

As part of the 2022 redistricting, the rest of Ota was transferred back to the district from the 2nd district.

Areas 2013–2022[edit]

From the first redistricting in 2013, until the second redistricting in 2022, the areas covered by this district were as follows:^[3]^[4]

Ōta (excluding Yabuzukahon, Ojima and Nitta)
Tatebayashi
Ōra District

As part of the 2013 redistricting, the areas of Yabuzukahon, Ojima and Nitta were transferred to the 2nd district.^[4]

Areas from before 2013[edit]

From the creation of the district in 1994, until the first redistricting in 2013, the areas covered by this district were as follows:^[5]

Elected representatives[edit]


Representative		Years served	Notes
Yoshio Yatsu	LDP	1996-2009
Masaaki Kakinuma	DPJ	2009-2012
Hiroyoshi Sasakawa	LDP	2012-	Incumbent

Election results[edit]

References[edit]

^ "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of September 1, 2020]. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-24.
^ 群馬県 [Gunma Prefecture] (PDF). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (in Japanese). 2022. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
^ "衆議院小選挙区選出議員の選挙区間における人口較差を緊急に是正するための公職選挙法及び衆議院議員選挙区画定審議会設置法の一部を改正する法律の一部を改正する法律". www.shugiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
^ ^a ^b 群馬県 [Gunma Prefecture] (PDF). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (in Japanese). 2013. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
^ "法律第百四号（平六・一一・二五）". www.shugiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-01-24.

See also[edit]

List of districts of the House of Representatives of Japan

v t e Gunma's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 PR part of the Northern Kantō PR block (20 seats) House of Councillors At-large (5 Representatives, 4→2 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 (10 Representatives, 4 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (10 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 (9 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (8 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Maebashi city Takasaki city counties (gunbu) (8 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 (5 Representatives)

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 (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 23 district 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 (19 block seats, 32 district 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 (23 block seats, 33 district 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 (19 block seats, 25 district 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 (10 block seats, 19 district 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 (21 block seats, 32 district 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 (28 block seats, 47 district 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 (10 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district 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
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4