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Wakayama 3rd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Wakayama Prefecture and consists of Arida, Gobo, Shingu, and Tanabe cities and the Arida, Hidaka, Higashimuro, and Nishimuro districts. As of 2012, 298,296 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Since its creation in 1996, Wakayama 3rd district has been represented by Toshihiro Nikai for the New Frontier Party (NFP), the Conservative Party, the New Conservative Party and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Nikai, a former Transport, Hokkaido and Economy minister, is a member of the LDP's Ibuki faction since his own faction of former Conservative Party members dissolved in 2009.

Kimiyoshi Tamaki, a longtime Wakayama prefectural representative, failed to unseat Nikai in the 2009 election that brought the Democratic Party a landslide win. He was safely elected in the Kinki proportional representation block where all Democratic party list candidates managed to secure a seat in the House.

Before the 1994 electoral reform, the area had been part of Wakayama 2nd district where three, later two representatives were elected by single non-transferable vote.

List of representatives

Election	Representative	Party	Notes
1996	Toshihiro Nikai	NFP	joined LP after the dissolution of the NFP in 2000. After leaving LP, joined the CP.
2000		CP	joined NCP in 2002.
2003		NCP	merged into LDP in 2003.
2005		LDP
2009
2012
2014
2017
2021			Incumbent

Election results

2012
Party	Candidate	Age	Votes	％	±％
LDP （Kōmeitō support）	Toshihiro Nikai	73	112,916	60.43％	+8.37％
JSP	Daisuke Yamashita	45	52,358	28.02％	ー
JCP	Yasuhisa Hara	61	21,570	11.54％	ー

2009^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Toshihiro Nikai	117,237
	DPJ (PNP support)	Kimiyoshi Tamaki	102,342
	Happiness Realization Party	Yūko Minato	5,634
Turnout			226,653	72.48

2005^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Toshihiro Nikai	145,735
	DPJ	Terushige Manabe	53,532
	JCP	Minoru Ueda	20,140
Turnout			226,653	72.48

2003^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Conservative Party	Toshihiro Nikai	148,274
	JCP	Minoru Ueda	40,930
Turnout			205,613	65.26

2000^[5]
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative Party	Toshihiro Nikai	138,527
Independent	Riki Azuma	55,546
JCP	Tsutomu Hayashi	25,516

1996^[6]
	Candidate	Votes
NFP	Toshihiro Nikai	115,681
LDP	Minoru Noda	101,074
JCP	Yasuhisa Hara	18,155

References

^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)
^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
^ 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙 >和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.

[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)

[2] 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.

[3] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.

[4] 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.

[5] 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-18.

[6] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙 >和歌山県>和歌山3区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-19.

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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, 21 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, 33 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, 36 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, 30 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, 18 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, 33 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, 45 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, 17 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, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 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