Saitama 3rd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives

House of Representatives of Japan

The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...

 in the Diet of Japan

Diet of Japan

The is Japan's bicameral legislature. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives, and an upper house, called the House of Councillors. Both houses of the Diet are directly elected under a parallel voting system. In addition to passing laws, the Diet is formally...

. It is located in Southeasternn Saitama

Saitama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Saitama.This prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, and most of Saitama's cities can be described as suburbs of Tokyo, to which a large amount of residents commute each day.- History...

 and consists of the cities of Sōka

Soka, Saitama

is a city located in Saitama, Japan.As of October 1, 2010, the city has an estimated population of 243,111 and the density of 8,866.19 persons per km²...

 and Koshigaya

Koshigaya, Saitama

is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.As of 2010, the city has an estimated population of 325,074 and a population density of 5,390 persons per km². The total area is 60.31 km²....

. As of 2009, 382,491 eligible voters were registered in the district.

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Sōka was part of the 1st district where three Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote

Single non-transferable vote

The single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used in multi-member constituency elections.- Voting :In any election, each voter casts one vote for one candidate in a multi-candidate race for multiple offices. Posts are filled by the candidates with the most votes...

, and Koshigaya part of Saitama 4th district (four Representatives).

Since its creation, the district has been closely contested between former Sōka mayor Hiroshi Imai

Hiroshi Imai

is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party , a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Sōka, Saitama and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the city assembly of Sōka in 1970 and then to the first of his four terms as the mayor of Sōka in 1977...

 (now LDP, Koga faction) who was first elected as JNP

Japan New Party

The Japan New Party was a Japanese political party that existed briefly from 1992 to 1994. It should not be confused with the New Party Nippon founded in 2005....

 candidate from the old 1st district in 1993, and Ex-Socialist Ritsuo Hosokawa

Ritsuo Hosokawa

is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan , a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Agawa District, Kōchi and graduate of Meiji University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party...

 (now DPJ, Kan group) who is originally from Kōchi Prefecture but had represented the old 4th district for the JSP since 1990.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Hiroshi Imai Hiroshi Imai is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party , a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Sōka, Saitama and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the city assembly of Sōka in 1970 and then to the first of his four terms as the mayor of Sōka in 1977...		NFP New Frontier Party The was a Japanese political party that existed during the mid-1990s. As a merger of several small parties, the party was ideologically diverse, with its membership ranging from moderate socialists to neoliberals and conservatives...	1996 – 2000	Failed reelection in the Northern Kantō PR block
Ritsuo Hosokawa Ritsuo Hosokawa is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan , a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Agawa District, Kōchi and graduate of Meiji University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party...		DPJ Democratic Party of Japan The is a political party in Japan founded in 1998 by the merger of several opposition parties. Its socially liberal platform is generally considered center-left in the Japanese political spectrum...	2000 – 2005	Reelected in the Northern Kantō PR block
Hiroshi Imai		LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election...	2005 – 2009	Failed reelection in the Northern Kantō PR block
Ritsuo Hosokawa		DPJ	2009 –	Incumbent

Election results

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