Hokkaido 4th district

Hokkaido 4th District
Hokkaido 4th 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	363,778 (2021)
Current constituency
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Hiroyuki Nakamura
Created from	Hokkaido's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Ishikari, Sapporo's Teine Ward and Shiribeshi Subprefecture

Hokkaidō 4th district (北海道[第]4区) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It represents Shiribeshi Subprefecture of Hokkaido (including the city of Otaru) as well as Teine Ward, a portion of Nishi Ward of Sapporo city and Ishikari city.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Shizuo Satō	LDP	1996 – 2003	Also lost in the PR block
Yoshio Hachiro	DPJ	2003 – 2012	Also lost in the PR block
Hiroyuki Nakamura	LDP	2012 –

Recent results

2024
Party		Candidate
	Liberal Democratic	Hiroyuki Nakamura
	Constitutional Democratic	Kureha Ootsuki
	Communist	Akemi Sasaki
	Independent	Kayo Saitō
Turnout

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Hiroyuki Nakamura (endorsed by Kōmeitō	109,326	50.16	4.24
	Constitutional Democratic	Kureha Ootsuki (elected by PR)	108,630	49.84	9.85
Majority			696	0.32	8,62
Turnout				61.14	0.80
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	4.31

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Hiroyuki Nakamura (endorsed by Kōmeitō and NPD)	104,054	45.92	0.56
	Constitutional Democratic	Hiranao Honda (elected by PR)	90,619	39.99	N/A
	Kibō no Tō	Miho Takahashi	31,941	14.09	N/A
Majority			16,105	8.94
Turnout				61.94	4.20
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	N/A

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Hiroyuki Nakamura (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	77,690	45.36	1.14
	Democratic	Yoshio Hachiro (endorsed by NPD)	70,049	40.90	11.33
	Communist	Takahiro Sakai	23,532	13.74	1.86
Majority			7,641	4.46
Turnout				57.74	2.40
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	5.10

2012^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Hiroyuki Nakamura	79,588	44.22	11.41
	Democratic	Yoshio Hachiro	53,217	29.57	35.90
	NP-Daichi	Hideto Tomabechi	25,788	14.32	N/A
	Communist	Yōko Kikuchi	21,379	11.88	N/A
Majority			26,371	14.65
Turnout			186,777	60.14	13.87
	Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic		Swing	23.66

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yoshio Hachiro	149,967	65.47	18.29
	Liberal Democratic	Tōru Miyamoto	75,029	32.81	9.94
	Happiness Realization	Shunzō Tsurumi	3,923	1.72	N/A
Majority			74,938	32.66
Turnout			234,260	74.01	1.93
	Democratic hold		Swing	14.12

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yoshio Hachiro	108,023	47.18	1.86
	Liberal Democratic	Shizuo Satō	100,170	43.75	2.92
	Communist	Teiko Kotosaka	20,766	9.07	1.05
Turnout			233,155	72.08	7.29
	Democratic hold		Swing	2.39

2003^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Yoshio Hachiro	100,883	49.04
	Liberal Democratic	Shizuo Satō	83,994	40.83
	Communist	Teiko Kotosaka	20,827	10.12
Turnout			210,272	64.79
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing

2000
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Shizuo Satō	88,825	42.9
Democratic	Ryūichi Ikeda	81,805	39.5
Communist	Teiko Kotosaka	36,257	17.5

1996
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Shizuo Satō	58,371	30.7
New Frontier	Kōji Suzuki	53,332	28.1
Democratic	Ryūichi Ikeda	51,714	27.2
Communist	Tokiya Yamato	26,562	14.0

References

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[2] 開票速報小選挙区：北海道 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

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[6] 小選挙区開票結果ー北海道４区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

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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