Hokkaido's Diet electoral districts

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

Hokkaido currently sends 26 elected members to the Diet of Japan, 20 to the House of Representatives and 6 to the House of Councillors. The prefecture sends 6 Councillors after the 2019.

House of Representatives

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

District seats

District Representative Party Incumbency
1st
Daiki Michishita
Constitutional Democratic 22 October 2017 – present
2nd
Kenko Matsuki
Constitutional Democratic 25 April 2021 – present
3rd
Hirohisa Takagi
Liberal Democratic 31 October 2021 – present
4th
Hiroyuki Nakamura
Liberal Democratic 16 December 2012 – present
5th
Yoshiaki Wada
Liberal Democratic 24 April 2016 – present
6th
Kuniyoshi Azuma
Liberal Democratic 31 October 2021 – present
7th
Yoshitaka Itō
Liberal Democratic 30 August 2009 – present
8th
Seiji Ōsaka
Constitutional Democratic 14 December 2014 – present
9th
Manabu Horii
Constitutional Democratic 31 October 2021 – present
10th
Hisashi Inatsu
Komeito 16 December 2012 – present
11th
Kaori Ishikawa
Constitutional Democratic 22 October 2017 – present
12th
Arata Takebe
Liberal Democratic 16 December 2012 – present

PR seats

Representative Party District contested Incumbency

Koichi Watanabe
Liberal Democratic None 16 December 2012 – present

Takako Suzuki
None 3 June 2013 – present

Yūko Nakagawa
Hokkaido-11th 31 October 2021 – present
Kureha Otsuki Constitutional Democratic Hokkaido-4th 31 October 2021 – present
Yutaka Arai Hokkaido-3rd 31 October 2021 – present

Hiroshi Kamiya
Hokkaido-10th 22 October 2017 – present

Hidemichi Sato
Komeito None 16 December 2012 – present

Manabu Horii
Independent Hokkaido-9th 31 October 2021 – present

House of Councillors

The current House of Councillors Hokkaido delegation consists of 4 LDP and 2 members of the CDP. The members are elected from the Hokkaido at-large district.

Class # Councillors Party Term ends Incumbency
2019 1
Harumi Takahashi
Liberal Democratic 28 July 2025 29 July 2019 – present
2
Kenji Katsube
Constitutional Democratic 28 July 2025 29 July 2019 – present
3
Tsuyohito Iwamoto
Liberal Democratic 28 July 2025 29 July 2019 – present
2022 1
Gaku Hasegawa
Liberal Democratic 25 July 2028 26 July 2010 – present
2
Eri Tokunaga
Constitutional Democratic 25 July 2028 26 July 2010 – present
3
Toshimitsu Funahashi
Liberal Democratic 25 July 2028 26 July 2022 – 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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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)
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2
3
4
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)
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)
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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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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
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