Hokkaido 3rd district

Hokkaidō 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
Electorate	474,944 (2021)
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 Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, and consists of the wards of Toyohira, and Kiyota and most of Shiroishi ward.

The current representative from the district is Hirohisa Takagi of the Liberal Democratic Party.

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	Won in the PR block
Gaku Ishizaki	LDP	2005–2009	Also lost in the PR block
Satoshi Arai	DPJ	2009–2012	Won in the PR block
Hirohisa Takagi	LDP	2012–2017	Also lost in the PR block
Satoshi Arai	CDP	2017–2021	Retired in 2021
Hirohisa Takagi	LDP	2021–

Recent results

2024^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutional Democratic	Yutaka Arai	100,136	41.7	1.3
	Liberal Democratic	Hirohisa Takagi	83,089	34.6	10.1
	Communist	Richiko Itō	22,915	9.6	new
	Ishin	Yoshitaka Torikoshi	21,802	9.1	3.2
	Independent	Kenji Masuda	11,972	5.0	new
Turnout				53.62
	Constitutional Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing

2021^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	116,917	44,66	0.98
	Constitutional Democratic	Yutaka Arai (won PR seat)	112,535	42.99	11.37
	Ishin	Yasufumi Kowada	32,340	12.35
Turnout				56.24	0.88
	Liberal Democratic gain from Constitutional Democratic		Swing	5.25

2017^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutional Democratic	Satoshi Arai	141,680	54.36	17.90
	Liberal Democratic	Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō and NPD)	118,961	45.64	6.17
Majority			22,719	8.72
Turnout				57.12	4.01
	Constitutional Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing	5.87

2014^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	92,649	39.47	2.59
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (won PR seat)	85,591	36.46	9.50
	Communist	Hiroko Yoshioka	30,271	12.90	4.68
	Innovation	Yasufumi Kowada	26,211	11.17	3.82
Turnout				53.11	1.97

2012^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	88,360	36.88
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (endorsed by PNP) (won PR seat)	64,599	26.96
	Restoration	Yasufumi Kowada (endorsed by Your Party)	35,907	14.99	new
	NP-Daichi	Junko Machikawa (endorsed by TPJ)	31,024	12.95	new
	Communist	Tsuneto Mori	19,705	8.22	new
Turnout				55.08	15.83

2009^[7]
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	3.26

2005^[8]
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^[9]
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^[10]
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^[11]
	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

References

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[6] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

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v t e 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)

v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district 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 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district 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 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 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 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4