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Hokkaido 2nd district (1947–1993)

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Hokkaidō 2nd district (北海道第2区, Hokkai-dō dai-ni-ku) was an SNTV four-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan, between 1947 and 1996, last used in the lower house election of 1993. Located in the prefecture (-dō) of Hokkaidō, it consisted (as of 1993) of the cities (-shi) of Asahikawa, Rumoi, Wakkanai, Shibetsu, Nayoro, Furano and all other municipalities in the subprefectures (-shichō) Kamikawa, Sōya and Rumoi. With the return to single-member districts in the 1990s electoral reform, the district became the 7th district. In 2003 the 7th district was abolished and the area that was once the 2nd district was divided amongst the 6th, 10th and 12th districts of Hokkaidō.

List of representatives (incomplete)

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  • Yōichi Kawaguchi, elected 1947, 1949 (Japanese Farmers Party→New Farmers Party→Progressive/Reform Party [Kaishintō]→Japanese Socialist Party (right wing))
  • Hideyo Sasaki, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1955, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1972 (Democratic Party→Democratic Liberal Party→Liberal Party→Liberal Democratic Party)
  • Kōtarō Bandō, 1947 (Liberal Party→Democratic Party)
  • Shūtarō Matsuura, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1972 (Progressive/Reform Party [Kaishintō]→Japanese Democratic Party→Liberal Democratic Party)
  • Mitsugu Haga 1952, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1979 (Japanese Socialist Party (left wing)→Japanese Socialist Party [Nihon Shakaitō, self-chosen name for English-speaking foreigners in the 1990s: Social Democratic Party, not to be confused with the Social Democratic Party (Shakaiminshutō) that existed in the 1950s as a small breakaway from the Socialist Party or with the Social Democratic Party (Shakaiminshutō), the much smaller successor of the JSP since 1996])
  • Yoshinori Yasui 1958, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986 (Japanese Socialist Party)
  • Masanori Kawata, 1976, 1980, 1986 (Liberal Democratic Party)
  • Shigetoshi Murakami, 1976, 1979, 1983 (Liberal Democratic Party)
  • Yoshiteru Uekusa, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1990 (Liberal Democratic Party)
  • Hidenori Sasaki, 1990, 1993 (Japanese Socialist Party)
  • Eikō Kaneta, 1993 (Liberal Democratic Party)
  • Kozo Igarashi, Social Democratic Party, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1990, 1993
  • Hiroshi Imazu, Liberal Democratic Party, 1990, 1993

Election results (incomplete)

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