Iwate 3rd district

Japan House of Representatives constituency

Parliamentary constituencies in Iwate Prefecture

Iwate 3rd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Iwate.

Ichirō Ozawa of the Liberal Party took the seat in the constituency after his original seat in the Iwate 4th district was abolished in the 2017 general election. Previously, the seat was held by Toru Kikawada of the Democratic Party (DPJ) since 2000.

Area

Located in Southwestern Iwate, the district includes the entire abolished 4th district. Only Ichinoseki City and Hiraizumi Town were retained in the 3rd after the 2017 redistricting, other municipalities were transferred to the Iwate 2nd district.

Cities

Hanamaki
Kitakami
Ichinoseki
Ōshū

Towns

Nishiwaga
Kanegasaki
Hiraizumi

List of representatives

Election	Representative	Party	Notes
1996	Yōhei Sasaki	NFP
2000	Toru Kikawada	LP
2003		DPJ
2005
2009
2012
2014
2017	Ichirō Ozawa	Independent
2021	Takashi Fujiwara	LDP

References

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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

Shizuoka 9

Shimane 3

Oita 4

Districts eliminated
in the 2013 reapportionments

Fukui 3

Yamanashi 3

Tokushima 3

Kochi 3

Districts eliminated
in the 2017 reapportionments

Aomori 4

Nara 4

Kagoshima 5

Districts eliminated
in the 2022 reapportionments

Shiga 4

Okayama 5

Ehime 4

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