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 | Party | Dates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun'ichi Osanai | bgcolor=Template:New Frontier Party (Japan)/meta/color | | NFP | 1996–2000 | Had represented the pre-reform 1st district for Kōmeitō→NFP since 1993, retired in 2000 |
| Takamori Yoshikawa | bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color | | LDP | 2000–2003 | Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2003 |
| Wakio Mitsui | bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party of Japan/meta/color| | DPJ | 2003–2012 | Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2012 |
| Takamori Yoshikawa | bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color | | LDP | 2012– | Incumbent |
Recent results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | 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 | |
| JCP | Hideko Ōta | 28,183 | 11.8 | new | |
| Your | Ryūji Sawada | 24,605 | 10.3 | new | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Wakio Mitsui | 165,267 | 54.2 | +8.9 | |
| LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Komeito) | 93,870 | 30.8 | −14.5 | |
| JCP | 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 | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Wakio Mitsui | 129,357 | 45.3 | ||
| LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa (won PR seat) | 127,031 | 44.5 | ||
| JCP | 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.