Hokkaido 5th district

Hokkaidō 5th district (Hokkaidō [dai-]go-ku (北海道[第]5区)) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Atsubetsu ward in Hokkaido's city of Sapporo and Ishikari Subprefecture without Sapporo. As of 2009, 453,752 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

The district was created in the 1994 electoral reform from parts of the previous 1st district where six representatives had been elected by single-non transferable vote. Representatives from the old 1st district included Kingo Machimura and his son Nobutaka Machimura.

Nobutaka Machimura (LDP, Machimura faction) safely won the new 5th district in the 1996 election and defended it against Democratic challenger Chiyomi Kobayashi in subsequent elections. The 2009 general election, though, gave the Democratic Party a landslide victory and Kobayashi surpassed Machimura by 30,000 votes. She resigned in June 2010 over a political funds scandal. Machimura resigned from his seat in the Hokkaidō proportional block to run in the resulting by-election in October 2010 and defeated former construction ministry bureaucrat Shigeyuki Nakamae by a clear margin to regain his district seat.[2]

List of Representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Nobutaka Machimura LDP 1996–2009 Reelected in the Hokkaidō PR block
Chiyomi Kobayashi DPJ 2009–2010 Resigned on June 17, 2010
Nobutaka Machimura LDP 2010– Incumbent

Election results

2014[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP (Kōmeitō) Nobutaka Machimura 131,394 50.9
DPJ Kenji Katsube 94,975 36.8
JCP Ryūji Suzuki 31,523 12.2
2012[4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP (NK) Nobutaka Machimura 128,435 48.62
DPJ Shigeyuki Nakamae 69,075 26.15
YP (JRP) Yūji Nishida 41,025 15.53
JCP Ryūji Suzuki 21,422 8.11
HRP Yoshinori Moriyama 4,200 1.59
2010 by-election[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Nobutaka Machimura 125,636 52.3
DPJ Shigeyuki Nakamae 94,135 39.2
JCP Satoshi Miyauchi 15,583 6.5
Independent Michiko Kawamura 2,697 1.1
HRP Yoshinori Moriyama 2,325 1.0
Turnout 242,932 53.48
2009[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (PNP support) Chiyomi Kobayashi 182,952 53.8
LDP (NK support) Nobutaka Machimura (elected by PR) 151,448 44.6
HRP Yasunori Hatano 5,380 1.6
Turnout 345,458 76.32
2005[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Nobutaka Machimura 173,947 54.2
DPJ Chiyomi Kobayashi 124,547 38.8
JCP Takahiro Yamazaki 22,521 7.0
Turnout 325,642 73.18
2003[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Nobutaka Machimura 129,035 47.0
DPJ Chiyomi Kobayashi (elected by PR) 120,192 43.7
JCP Satoshi Miyauchi 25,603 9.3
Turnout 280,993 64.06
2000[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Nobutaka Machimura 123,680 46.0
DPJ Chiyomi Kobayashi 84,631 31.4
JCP Satoshi Miyauchi 35,006 13.0
LP Kentarō Ono 25,845 9.6
1996[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Nobutaka Machimura 113,282 49.8
NFP Kentarō Ono 61,846 27.2
JCP Satoshi Miyauchi 44,885 19.7
LL Marie Ikenaka 7,576 3.3
Turnout 240,442 60.53

References

  1. ↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成21年9月2日現在における選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数 (Japanese)
  2. ↑ The Japan Times, Oct. 25, 2010: LDP vet clinches Hokkaido by-election
  3. ↑ 総選挙2014>開票結果　小選挙区　北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  4. ↑ 第46回衆議院議員選挙 - 北海道5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
  5. ↑ 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：北海道. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
  6. ↑ 第45回衆議院議員補欠選挙 - 北海道5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
  7. ↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>北海道>北海道5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
  8. ↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>北海道>北海道5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
  9. ↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>北海道>北海道5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
  10. ↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>北海道>北海道5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
  11. ↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>北海道>北海道5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats. Retrieved 2012-12-22.