Hokkaido 2nd district

Hokkaido 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
Sapporo-area detail
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	446,526
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Takamori Yoshikawa (2012-)
Created from	Hokkaido's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Sapporo's Kita Ward and Higashi Ward

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		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	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Komeito)	83,575	35.0	+4.2
	Democratic	Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by PNP)	55,520	23.2	-31.0
	Restoration	Miho Takahashi (won PR seat)	47,139	19.7	new
	Communist	Hideko Ōta	28,183	11.8	new
	Your	Ryūji Sawada	24,605	10.3	new

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Wakio Mitsui	165,267	54.2	+8.9
	Liberal Democratic	Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Komeito)	93,870	30.8	-14.5
	Communist	Chiharu Oka	27,580	9.0	new
	Social Democratic	Yumi Honda	14,311	4.7	new
	Happiness Realization	Motomi Yamamoto	3,782	1.2	new

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Wakio Mitsui	129,357	45.3
	Liberal Democratic	Takamori Yoshikawa (won PR seat)	127,031	44.5
	Communist	Masatoshi Kanakura	29,131	10.2

References

↑ 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
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-08-23.
↑ 総選挙2009>開票結果　小選挙区　北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-08-23.
↑ 総選挙2005>開票結果　小選挙区　北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-08-23.

Hokkaidō's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13) PR Hokkaidō PR block House of Councillors At-large (13→12 Representatives (PR block: 9→8), 4 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 (22→23 Representatives, 8→4 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) 1 2 (23 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 4 5 (20 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (16 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts era (1902–1917), in Hokkaidō FPTP single-member districts Sapporo city (ku) Hakodate city (ku) Otaru city (ku) subprefectures 1 subprefectures 2 subprefectures 3 (3→6 Representatives)

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 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

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 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

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 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 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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