Hokkaido 2nd district

Hokkaidō 2nd district (北海道[第]2区 Hokkai-dō [dai-]ni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in the prefecture (-dō) of Hokkaidō and consists of two wards (-ku) of the prefectural capital, the city (-shi) of Sapporo: Kita ("North") and Higashi ("East"). As of 2013, 444,440 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

The current Representative from the district since 2012 is Liberal Democrat Takamori Yoshikawa who had lost the previous three elections to Democrat Wakio Mitsui. Yoshikawa has been the LDP candidate in the 2nd district since the initial election of 1996, but only managed to win the district in 2000 (he won a Hokkaidō proportional seat on the LDP list in 1996 and 2005). Mitsui had contested the 3rd district for the NFP in 1996, but ranked third behind candidates from LDP and DPJ; in 2000, he ran only as a candidate on the DPJ proportional list and won a seat, before taking over the DPJ candidacy in the 2nd district in 2003.

Before the introduction of the current first-past-the-post/proportional representation parallel electoral system for the House of Representatives in the 1990s, Sapporo city had been part of the SNTV six-member 1st district.

List of Representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Jun'ichi Osanai NFP 1996–2000 Had represented the pre-reform 1st district for Kōmeitō→NFP since 1993, retired in 2000
Takamori Yoshikawa LDP 2000–2003 Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2003
Wakio Mitsui DPJ 2003–2012 Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2012
Takamori Yoshikawa LDP 2012– Incumbent

Recent results

2012[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP (NK) Takamori Yoshikawa 83,575 35.0 +4.2
DPJ (PNP) Wakio Mitsui 55,520 23.2 -31.0
JRP Miho Takahashi (won PR seat) 47,139 19.7 new
JCP Hideko Ōta 28,183 11.8 new
YP Ryūji Sawada 24,605 10.3 new
2009[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Wakio Mitsui 165,267 54.2 +8.9
LDP (NK) Takamori Yoshikawa 93,870 30.8 -14.5
JCP Chiharu Oka 27,580 9.0 new
SDP Yumi Honda 14,311 4.7 new
HRP Motomi Yamamoto 3,782 1.2 new
2005[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Wakio Mitsui 129,357 45.3
LDP Takamori Yoshikawa (won PR seat) 127,031 44.5
JCP Masatoshi Kanakura 29,131 10.2

References

  1. ↑ MIC: 平成25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
  2. ↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-08-23.
  3. ↑ 総選挙2009>開票結果　小選挙区　北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-08-23.
  4. ↑ 総選挙2005>開票結果　小選挙区　北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-08-23.