Hokkaido 6th district

Hokkaido 6th District
Hokkaido 6th District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	430,198
Current constituency
Seats	One
Party	DP
Representative	Takahiro Sasaki (2005-2012,2014–)
Created from	Hokkaido's 2nd "medium-sized" district
Subprefecture	Kamikawa

Hokkaidō 6th district (北海道[第]6区) 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 Hokkaido's Kamikawa Subprefecture.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Hidenori Sasaki	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)/meta/color \|	DPJ	1996 – 2003
Hiroshi Imazu	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color \|	LDP	2003 – 2005
Takahiro Sasaki	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)/meta/color \|	DPJ	2005 – 2012
Hiroshi Imazu	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color \|	LDP	2012 – 2014
Takahiro Sasaki	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)/meta/color \|	DPJ	2014 – 2016	Incumbent
Takahiro Sasaki	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (Japan, 2016)/meta/color \|	DP	2016 –	Incumbent

Recent results

2014^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Democratic	Takahiro Sasaki	104,595	45.3	16.4
Liberal Democratic	Hiroshi Imazu	101,748	44.1	1.2
Communist	Kazutoshi Ogyu	24,656	10.6	2.7
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing	7.6

2012^[3]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Liberal Democratic	Hiroshi Imazu	103,064	42.9	5.1
Democratic	Takahiro Sasaki	69,272	28.9	26.5
Your	Takanobu Azumi	48,736	20.3	N/A
Communist	Kazutoshi Ogyu	18,915	7.9	2.3
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic		Swing	15.8

2009^[4]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Democratic	Takahiro Sasaki	175,879	55.4	8.7
Liberal Democratic	Hiroshi Imazu	119,964	37.8	8.0
Communist	Kazutoshi Ogyu	17,884	5.6	2.0
Happiness Realization	Shinichi Takeda	3.554	1.1	N/A
Democratic hold		Swing	8.4

2005^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Takahiro Sasaki	143,860	46.7
Liberal Democratic	Hideyuki Kaneda	141,099	45.8
Communist	Hachiro Tanabe	23,343	7.6
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing

References

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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, 23 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, 32 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, 33 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, 25 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, 19 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, 32 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, 47 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, 20 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, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 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