The 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...

 (national legislature). It is located in Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 and covers parts of the former city of Tokyo

Tokyo City

was a municipality in Japan and part of Tokyo-Fu which existed from May 1, 1889 until its merger with its prefecture on July 1, 1943. The historical boundaries of Tokyo City are now occupied by independent special wards...

 and Tokyo's outlying islands. The district consists of the wards of Shinagawa

Shinagawa, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. In English, it is called Shinagawa City. The ward is home to nine embassies.As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 344,461 and a density of 15,740 persons per km². The total area is 22.72 km²....

 and parts of Ōta

Ota, Tokyo

is one of the 23 Special wards of Tokyo, Japan.As of May 1, 2011, the ward has an estimated population of 676,458, with 348,492 households, and a population density of 11,376.69 persons per km²...

, the towns of Ōshima and Hachijō

Hachijo, Tokyo

is a town located in Hachijō Subprefecture, Tokyo, Japan. Electric power for the town is provided by a geothermal power station and by a wind farm.-Geography:...

 and the villages of Toshima, Niijima

Niijima, Tokyo

is a volcanic Japanese island in the Philippine Sea, administered by Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It is one of the Izu Seven Islands group of the seven northern islands of the Izu archipelago, and is located approximately south of Tōkyō and south of Shimoda Shizuoka Prefecture...

, Kōzushima

Kōzushima, Tokyo

is a village located in Ōshima Subprefecture, Tokyo, Japan.-Geography:Kōzushima Village covers the islands of Kōzushima, one of the northern islands in the Izu archipelago in the Philippine Sea, south of central Tokyo...

, Miyake, Mikurajima

Mikurajima, Tokyo

is a village located in Miyake Subprefecture, Tokyo, Japan. It has a population of only 271 people.-Geography:Mikurajima Village covers the inhabited island of Mikurajima, one of the northern islands in the Izu archipelago in the Philippine Sea, south of Tokyo and south-southeast of...

, Aogashima and Ogasawara

Ogasawara, Tokyo

is a village in Ogasawara Subprefecture, Tokyo, Japan, that governs the Bonin Islands, Volcano Islands and three remote islands .-Geography:...

. As of 2009, 476,576 eligible voters were registered in the district.

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Tokyo 2nd district where five 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...

.

The current representative for the Tokyo 3rd district is Jin Matsubara (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...

, Hatoyama and Kawabata groups) who began his political career in 1985 as a candidate for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

The is the prefectural parliament of Tokyo.Its 127 members are elected every four years in 42 districts by single non-transferable vote. 23 electoral districts equal the Special wards of Tokyo, another 18 districts are made up by the cities, towns and villages in the Western part of the...

 for the New Liberal Club

New Liberal Club

was a political party in Japan that was founded on 25 June 1976 as a breakaway from the Liberal Democratic Party .The New Liberal Club formed a coalition government with the LDP in December 1983, with the New Liberal's president, Seiichi Tagawa, serving as the Minister of Home Affairs in the...

.
He later represented Ōta in the Metropolitan Assembly as an independent with Zekin-tō ("Tax Party") support, subsequently joined the Liberal Democratic Party

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...

 (LDP), the Japan Renewal Party

Japan Renewal Party

The Japan Renewal Party was a Japanese political party that existed in the early 1990s. It was founded in 1993 by 44 members of the Liberal Democratic Party led by Tsutomu Hata and Ichirō Ozawa...

 (JRP), the New Frontier Party

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...

 (NFP), the Liberal Party

Liberal Party (Japan, 1998)

The was a Japanese liberal party formed in 1998 by Ichirō Ozawa and Hirohisa Fujii. It is now defunct, having joined the Democratic Party of Japan in 2003....

, the Good Governance Party

Good Governance Party

The was a Japanese political party which was in existence for a short period in early 1998. It was a centrist, reformist party that merged with other parties in April 1998 to form the Democratic Party of Japan....

 (GGP) and finally the Democratic Party

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...

 (DPJ) in 1998.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Shin'ichirō Kurimoto		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...	1996 – 2000
Jin Matsubara Jin Matsubara is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Itabashi, Tokyo and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the assembly of Tokyo in 1989, and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000...		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 Tokyo PR block
Hirotaka Ishihara Hirotaka Ishihara is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Kanagawa Prefecture and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005 after an unsuccessful run in 2003...		LDP	2005 – 2009	Failed reelection in the Tokyo PR block
Jin Matsubara		DPJ	2009 –	Incumbent

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