The Hokkaido proportional representation block (比例[代表]北海道ブロック, Hirei [daihyō] Hokkaidō burokku) is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) blocks for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Hokkaidō and is one of two PR blocks that covers only one prefecture, the other is Tokyo. Following the introduction of proportional voting it elected nine representatives in the election of 1996. Since 2000 the Hokkaidō PR block is represented by eight representatives.
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With eight seats, Hokkaidō is the second smallest PR block (Shikoku has only six seats), and the vote share needed to gain a seat is usually above ten percent. In 2000, when the combined vote of the two major parties reached a historical low of 56.8%, the Social Democratic Party managed to obtain a seat with only 8.9% of the vote (for a detailed explanation, see D'Hondt method).
In addition to the five national parties that emerged from the party realignments of the 1990s, the regionalist one-man party New Party Daichi has become a contender for PR seats in Hokkaidō. In both elections it fielded candidates, it managed to obtain the third largest vote share and one seat. Following the conviction of NPD chairman Muneo Suzuki, the party's future is unclear.
general election | DPJ | LDP | Kōmeitō | JCP | SDP | NPD | NFP ('96)/LP ('00) | Others | ||||||||||||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |
1996 | 835,042 | 31.8 | 3 | 740,677 | 28.2 | 3 | – | 396,923 | 15.1 | 1 | – | – | 552,847 | 21.1 | 2 | 100,807 | 3.8 | 0 | ||||||
2000 | 898,678 | 31.2 | 3 | 735,318 | 25.6 | 2 | 368,198 | 12.8 | 1 | 365,061 | 12.7 | 1 | 255,319 | 8.9 | 1 | – | 236,301 | 8.2 | 0 | 17,987 | 0.6 | 0 | ||
2003 | 1,153,471 | 40.8 | 4 | 876,653 | 31.0 | 3 | 394,843 | 14.0 | 1 | 253,442 | 9.0 | 0 | 147,146 | 5.2 | 0 | – | – | – | ||||||
2005 | 1,090,727 | 33.8 | 3 | 940,705 | 29.1 | 3 | 368,552 | 11.4 | 1 | 241,371 | 7.5 | 0 | 152,646 | 4.7 | 0 | 433,938 | 13.4 | 1 | – | – | ||||
2009 | 1,348,318 | 40.6 | 4 | 805,895 | 24.2 | 2 | 354,886 | 10.7 | 1 | 241,345 | 7.3 | 0 | 113,562 | 3.4 | 0 | 433,122 | 13.0 | 1 | – | 27,675 | 0.8 | 0 |
Party names are abbreviated as follows (format: abbreviation, translated name, Japanese name, Engrish name):
Note: Party affiliations as of election day.
Years | Elected Representatives | ||||||||
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1996– | Kenji Kodama | Seiichi Ikehata | Kenji Nakazawa | Seiichi Kaneda | Toshiyuki Wanibuchi | Kaori Maruya | Muneo Suzuki | Takamori Yoshikawa | Kōkō Satō |
2000– | Kenji Kodama | Keiko Yamauchi | Kenji Nakazawa | Seiichi Kaneda | Wakio Mitsui | Kaori Maruya | Muneo Suzuki | Hirofumi Iwakura | – |
2003– | Hidenori Sasaki | Chiyomi Kobayashi | Hiroko Nakano | Kenkō Matsuki | Kaori Maruya | Eikō Kaneta | Gaku Ishizaki | Takafumi Yamashita | |
2005– | Seiji Ōsaka | Satoshi Arai resigned 2007 Tomohiro Ishikawa |
Kenkō Matsuki | Muneo Suzuki | Kaori Maruya | Yukari Iijima | Hiroshi Imazu | Takamori Yoshikawa | |
2009– | Hiroko Nakano | Maya Yamazaki | Tatsumaru Yamaoka | Hitomi Kudō | Muneo Suzuki arrested 2010 Takahiro Asano |
Hisashi Inatsu | Tsutomu Takebe | Nobutaka Machimura resigned 2010 Hiroshi Imazu |
LDP: 805,895 votes (24.2%), 2 seats | DPJ: 1,348,318 votes (40.6%), 4 seats | Kōmeitō: 354,886 votes (10.7%), 1 seat | ||||||||||||
# | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" (sekihairitsu) |
Elected | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected |
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1 | Tsutomu Takebe | Hokkaidō 12 | 88.6% | Elected | 1 | Hiroko Nakano | Hokkaidō 7 | 99.0% | Elected | 1 | Hisashi Inatsu | PR only | Elected | |
Nobutaka Machimura | Hokkaidō 5 | 82.7% | Elected | Takahiro Yokomichi | Hokkaidō 1 | Won district | 2 | Hisayuki Takeda | – | |||||
Yoshitaka Itō | Hokkaidō 7 | Won district | Wakio Mitsui | Hokkaidō 2 | Won district | NPD: 433,122 votes (13.0%), 1 seat | ||||||||
Shōichi Nakagawa | Hokkaidō 11 | 75.6% | – (died) | Gaku Ishizaki | Hokkaidō 3 | Won district | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | |||
Hiroshi Imazu | Hokkaidō 6 | 68.2% | – (in 2010) | Yoshio Hachiro | Hokkaidō 4 | Won district | 1 | Muneo Suzuki | PR only | Elected | ||||
Gaku Hasegawa | Hokkaidō 1 | 67.8% | – | Chiyomi Kobayashi | Hokkaidō 5 | Won district | 2 | Eita Yashiro | – (DQ) | |||||
Gaku Ishizaki | Hokkaidō 3 | 60.6% | – | Takahiro Sasaki | Hokkaidō 6 | Won district | 3 | Takahiro Asano | – (in 2010) | |||||
Takamori Yoshikawa | Hokkaidō 2 | 56.7% | – | Seiji Ōsaka | Hokkaidō 8 | Won district | 4 | Junko HANA | – | |||||
Yukari Iijima | Hokkaidō 10 | 55.9% | – | Tadamasa Kodaira | Hokkaidō 10 | Won district | JCP: 241,345 votes (7.3%), no seat | |||||||
Tōru Miyamoto | Hokkaidō 4 | 50.1% | – | Shōichi Nakagawa | Hokkaidō 11 | Won district | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | |||
Satoshi Kawabata | Hokkaidō 9 | 39.2% | – | Tsutomu Takebe | Hokkaidō 12 | Won district | 1 | Satoshi Miyauchi | PR only | – | ||||
Keishirō Fukushima | Hokkaidō 8 | 33.9% | – | 12 | Maya Yamazaki | PR only | Elected | 2 | Chiharu Oka | Hokkaidō 2 | 16.6% | – | ||
13 | Takahiro Anada | PR only | – | 13 | Tatsumaru Yamaoka | Elected | Kazutoshi Ogiu | Hokkaidō 6 | 10.1% | – | ||||
14 | Shin'ya Numazawa | – | 14 | Hitomi Kudō | Elected | Akiko Satō | Hokkaidō 9 | 10.0% | – | |||||
15 | Fumitaka Uechi | – | 15 | Masanori Sekifuji | – | Yukari Watanabe | Hokkaidō 1 | 9.3% | – | |||||
SDP: 113,562 votes (3.4%), no seat | HRP: 20,276 votes (0.6%), no seat | Honshitsu: 7,399 votes (0.2%), no seat | ||||||||||||
# | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected |
1 | Taka Yamaguchi | PR only | – | 1 | Naofumi Satō | PR only | – | 1 | Hidemitsu Sano | PR only | – | |||
2 | Yumi Honda | Hokkaidō 2 | 8.7% | – | 2 | Tomoo Kobayashi | – | 2 | Akiko Hondō | – |
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