Tokyo 3rd district
The Tokyo 3rd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Tokyo and encompasses Shinagawa ward and several outlying islands that belong to the Tokyo Metropolis.
Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Tokyo [2nd district (1947–1993)|Tokyo 2nd district] where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.
Current representative from the Tokyo 3rd district is Hirotaka Ishihara, the son of former prefectural governor and environment minister Shintarō Ishihara and brother of former environment minister Nobuteru Ishihara. In 2012, Ishihara narrowly beat incumbent Jin Matsubara who began his political career in 1985 as a candidate for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for the New Liberal Club and later represented Ōta in the Metropolitan Assembly as an independent with Zekin-tō support, subsequently joined the LDP, the Japan Renewal Party, the New [Frontier Party (Japan)|New Frontier Party], the Liberal Party, the Good Governance Party and finally the Democratic Party in 1998.
Area
Former [Tokyo City]
- Shinagawa ward
[Izu Islands]
- Ōshima Subprefecture
- *Ōshima Town
- * Toshima Village
- * Niijima Village
- * Kōzushima Village
- Miyake Subprefecture
- * Miyake Village
- * Mikurajima Village
- Hachijō Subprefecture
- *Hachijō Town
- *Aogashima Village
[Ogasawara Subprefecture]
- Ogasawara Village