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Nara 3rd district (奈良県第3区, Nara-ken dai-sanku or simply 奈良3区, Nara-sanku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the National Diet of Japan located in Nara Prefecture.

LDP candidate Taido Tanose was elected in 2017. Tanose resigned from the party and ran as an Independent in the 2021 election following reports that he had visited a hostess club during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tokyo.^[2] After reelection, he rejoined the LDP.

List of representatives

Election	Representative
1996	Seisuke Okuno [ja]	Liberal Democratic
2000	Seisuke Okuno [ja]	Liberal Democratic
2003	Shinsuke Okuno	Liberal Democratic
2005	Shinsuke Okuno	Liberal Democratic
2009	Masashige Yoshikawa [ja]	Democratic
2012	Shinsuke Okuno	Liberal Democratic
2014	Shinsuke Okuno	Liberal Democratic
2017	Taido Tanose	Liberal Democratic
2021		Independent
2024		Liberal Democratic
2026		Liberal Democratic

Election results

2026
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Taido Tanose	120,018	62.8	13.6
	Ishin	Daisuke Harayama (elected in Kinki PR block)	37,067	19.4	2.9
	JCP	Atsushi Oota	22,018	11.5	0.6
	Independent	Hiroaki Yagi	11,868	6.2
Registered electors			338,448
Turnout				59.40	2.40
	LDP hold

2024^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Taido Tanose	92,379	49.2	11.6
	Ishin	Daisuke Harayama	41,897	22.3
	CDP	Yasushi Kawato	33,101	17.6
	JCP	Atsushi Oota	20,543	10.9	7.3
Registered electors			343,656
Turnout				57.00	0.19
	LDP hold

2021^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Taido Tanose (Incumbent)	114,553	60.81	New
	Communist	Masakatsu Nishikawa	34,334	18.23
	Independent	Shoji Takami [ja]	32,669	17.34	New
	Anti-NHK	Takashi Kato	6,824	3.62	New
Registered electors			355,246
Turnout				57.19	1.69
	Independent hold

＊Tanose returned to the LDP after being elected.

2017^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Taido Tanose (Incumbent-Nara 4th)	122,341	61.62
	Kibō no Tō	Kiyoshige Maekawa	55,721	28.07	New
	Communist	Susumu Tokoro	20,469	10.31
Registered electors			369,148
Turnout				55.50	1.75
	LDP hold

2014^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shinsuke Okuno (Incumbent)	79,334	52.64
	Innovation	Eriko Kurihara	46,556	30.89	New
	Communist	Atsushi Masaki	24,828	16.47
Registered electors			291,571
Turnout				53.75	8.52
	LDP hold

2012^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shinsuke Okuno	76,073	43.12
	Restoration	Masayoshi Nishimine	49,928	28.30	New
	Democratic	Masashige Yoshikawa [ja] (Incumbent)	35,974	20.39
	Communist	Yoshinori Mameda	14,466	8.20
Registered electors			291,732
Turnout				62.27	9.58
	LDP gain from Democratic

References

↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
↑ "VOX POPULI: Entitlement on full display as lawmakers flout own curfew rules". Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
↑ 開票速報小選挙区：奈良 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
↑ "2021年衆議院総選挙奈良3区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
↑ "2017衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
↑ "2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
↑ "開票結果小選挙区奈良". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2023-10-29.

34°22′16″N 135°52′17″E / 34.3711°N 135.8713°E / 34.3711; 135.8713

[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)

[2] "VOX POPULI: Entitlement on full display as lawmakers flout own curfew rules". Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 1 February 2025.

[3] 開票速報小選挙区：奈良 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 1 February 2022.

[4] "2021年衆議院総選挙奈良3区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.

[5] "2017衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.

[6] "2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[7] "開票結果小選挙区奈良". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2023-10-29.

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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: Eisuke Mori, Chiba 11th Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Keiichi Ishii, Northern Kanto PR
Hokkaidō	Block 8 seats Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku	Block 12 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	Block 19 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	Block 23 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	Block 19 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	Block 10 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	Block 21 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	Block 28 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	Block 10 seats Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku	Block 6 seats Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū	Block 20 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
Former districts	Abolished in 2002 Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4 Abolished in 2013 Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3 Abolished in 2017 Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5 Abolished in 2022 Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4