Hokkaido's Diet electoral districts

Hokkaido's House of Representatives districts since 2017[1]
All seats
Sapporo seats

Hokkaido currently sends 17 elected members to the Diet of Japan, 12 to the House of Representatives and 5 to the House of Councillors. The prefecture will send 6 Councillors starting 2019.

House of Representatives

The current House of Representatives Hokkaido delegation consists of 9 members of the LDP, 8 CDP, 2 Komeito and 1 DPFP.

District seats

District Representative Party Incumbency
1st Daiki Michishita (CD-Nishi-ku, Sapporo) CDP 1 November 2017 – present
2nd Takamori Yoshikawa (LD-Kita-ku, Sapporo) LDP 26 December 2012 – present
3rd Satoshi Arai (CD-Toyohira-ku, Sapporo) CDP 1 November 2017 – present
4th Hiroyuki Nakamura (LD-Otaru) LDP 26 December 2012 – present
5th Yoshiaki Wada (LD-Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo) LDP 27 April 2016 – present
6th Takahiro Sasaki (CD-Asahikawa) CDP 15 December 2014 – present
7th Yoshitaka Itō (LD-Kushiro) LDP 31 August 2009 – present
8th Seiji Ōsaka (CD-Hakodate) CDP 15 December 2014 – present
9th Manabu Horii (LD-Muroran) LDP 26 December 2012 – present
10th Hisashi Inatsu (K-Iwamizawa) Komeito 31 August 2009 – present
11th Kaori Ishikawa (CD-Obihiro) CDP 1 November 2017 – present
12th Arata Takebe (LD-Kitami) LDP 26 December 2012 – present

PR seats

Representative Party District contested Incumbency
Kōichi Watanabe (LD-Iwamizawa) LDP None 26 December 2012 – present
Takako Suzuki (LD-Kushiro) 3 June 2013 – present
Toshimitsu Funahashi (LD-Chuo-ku, Sapporo) Hokkaido-1st 1 November 2017 – present
Hiroshi Kamiya (CD-Iwamizawa) CDP Hokkaido-10th 1 November 2017 – present
Maki Ikeda (CD-Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo) Hokkaido-5th 1 November 2017 – present
Hiranao Honda (CD-Otaru) Hokkaido-4th 1 November 2017 – present
Tatsumaru Yamaoka (D-Tomakomai) DPFP Hokkaido-9th 1 November 2017 – present
Hidemichi Satō (K-Chuo-ku, Sapporo) Komeito None 26 December 2012 – present

House of Councillors

The current House of Councillors Hokkaido delegation consists of 2 members of the CDP, 2 LDP and 1 DPFP. The members are elected from the Hokkaido at-large district.

Party Councillors Term ends Incumbency
CDP Katsuya Ogawa 2019 23 July 1995 – present
Yoshio Hachiro 2022 26 July 2016 – present
DPFP Eri Tokunaga 2022 26 July 2010 – present
LDP Chuichi Date 2019 2001 – present
Gaku Hasegawa 2022 26 July 2010 – present

References

  1. ^ "北海道" (PDF). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
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Hokkaidō's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present)
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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)
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5 (22→23 Representatives, 8→4 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946)
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2 (23 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942)
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5 (20 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924)
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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)
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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
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5
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Tōhoku
(12 block seats, 23 district seats)
Kita- (North) Kantō
(19 block seats, 32 district seats)
Minami- (South) Kantō
(23 block seats, 33 district seats)
Tokyo
(19 block seats, 25 district seats)
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu
(10 block seats, 19 district seats)
Tōkai
(21 block seats, 32 district seats)
Kinki
(28 block seats, 47 district seats)
Chūgoku
(10 block seats, 20 district seats)
Shikoku
(6 block seats, 11 district seats)
Kyūshū
(20 block seats, 35 district seats)
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