Hokkaido 3rd district

Hokkaidō 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts
Sapporo-area detail
Prefecture	Hokkaidō
Proportional District	Hokkaidō
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Hirohisa Takagi
Created from	Hokkaidō's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Sapporo's Shiroishi, Toyohira, and Kiyota Wards

Hokkaidō 3rd district (北海道[第]3区, Hokkai-dō [dai-]san-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 three wards (-ku) of the prefectural capital, the city (-shi) of Sapporo: Shiroishi, Toyohira, and Kiyota.

The current Representative from the district since 2012 is Liberal Democrat Hirohisa Takagi.

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
Gaku Ishizaki	LDP	1996–2000
Satoshi Arai	DPJ	2000-2005
Gaku Ishizaki	LDP	2005-2009
Satoshi Arai	DPJ	2009-2012
Hirohisa Takagi	LDP	2012-	Incumbent

Recent results

2014^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Liberal Democratic	Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	92,649	39.5	+2.6
Democratic	Satoshi Arai (won PR seat)	85,591	36.5	+9.5
Communist	Hiroko Yoshioka	30,271	12.9	new
Innovation	Yasufumi Kowada	26,211	11.2	new

2012^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Liberal Democratic	Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	88,360	36.9
Democratic	Satoshi Arai (endorsed by PNP) (won PR seat)	64,599	27.0
Restoration	Yasufumi Kowada (endorsed by Your Party)	35,907	15.0	new
New Party Daichi	Junko Machikawa (endorsed by TPJ)	31,024	12.9	new
Communist	Tsuneto Mori	19,705	8.2	new

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (endorsed by PNP)	186,081	60.9
	Liberal Democratic	Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	112,844	36.9
	Happiness Realization	Yoshinori Moriyama	6,723	2.2
Turnout			305,648	70.91

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō	138,765	48.4
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (won PR seat)	125,445	43.7
	Communist	Ryūji Kawabe	22,581	7.9
Turnout			286,791	67.65

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (endorsed by SDP)	114,131	46.8
	Liberal Democratic	Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by NCP) (won PR seat)	111,252	45.6
	Communist	Ryūji Kawabe	18,537	7.6
Turnout			243,920	58.48

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai	96,653	40.5
	Liberal Democratic	Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by NCP)	90,694	38.0
	Communist	Kenji Kodama (won PR seat)	41,499	17.4
	Liberal League	Mitsuhiro Yokoyama	9,909	4.2
Turnout			238,755	59.92

1996^[7]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Gaku Ishizaki	54,275	26.3
Democratic	Satoshi Arai (endorsed by NPS)	51,479	25.0
New Frontier	Wakio Mitsui	50,902	24.7
Communist	Kenji Kodama (won PR seat)	40,623	19.7
New Socialist	Tomoka Uchimoto	9,010	4.4

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→6 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
Hokkaidō proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)
Tōhoku 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
Kitakantō 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
Minami-Kantō 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
Hokurikushin'etsu 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
Tōkai 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 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3
Chūgoku 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)
Kyūshū 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 Ōita 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

References

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