Hokkaido 1st district

Hokkaido 1st 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	490,438
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Toshimitsu Funahashi (2012-)
Created from	Hokkaido's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Sapporo's Chūō Ward, Minami Ward, and Nishi Ward

Hokkaidō 1st district (北海道[第]1区, Hokkaidō-[dai-]ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in Western Hokkaidō and consists of Sapporo city's Chūō ("Centre"), Minami ("South") and Nishi ("West") wards. As of 2009, 476,742 eligible voters were registered in the district giving it the lowest electoral weight in Hokkaidō.^[1]

Since 2012, the district is represented by Liberal Democrat Toshimitsu Funahashi who was able to defeat Democratic incumbent and former Hokkaidō governor Takahiro Yokomichi. Yokomichi is the leader of the ex-Socialist faction within the Democratic Party of Japan and president of the House of Representatives from 2009 to 2012. Before the electoral reform, Sapporo city had been part of the six-member 1st district that covered Ishikari and Shiribetsu subprefectures. Yokomichi and previously his father Setsuo had represented the pre-reform multi-member 1st district for the Socialists from 1952 until the 1983 gubernatorial election, interrupted by two years after Setsuo Yokomichi's death in 1967. In the 2009 general election, Yokomichi's main challenger was Liberal Democrat Gaku Hasegawa who lost the race and also failed to win a proportional seat, but went on to become Councillor for Hokkaidō in 2010. In 2005, Muneo Suzuki's regionalist New Party Daichi nominated ski jumper Masahiro Akimoto in the district. In 2000, former olympic weightlifter and current Hokkaidō assemblyman Nobuyuki Hatta ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for Ichirō Ozawa's Liberal Party. In 2012, olympic speed skater Hiroyasu Shimizu ran for New Party Daichi – True Democrats.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Takahiro Yokomichi		DPJ	1996–2012	Reelected in the Hokkaidō PR block
Toshimitsu Funahashi		LDP	2012–	incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Toshimitsu Funahashi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	86,034	31.07
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi (endorsed by PNP) (elected by PR)	79,994	28.89
	Restoration	Tomokazu Ōtake (endorsed by Your Party)	46,681	16.86
	New Party Daichi	Hiroyasu Shimizu (endorsed by TPJ)	44,845	16.20
	Communist	Hiroyuki Norota	19,340	6.98

2009^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi (endorsed by PNP)	183,216	51.9
	Liberal Democratic	Gaku Hasegawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	124,343	36.8
	Communist	Hideaki Matsui	25,803	7.6
	Happiness Realization	Kazue Takamoto	4,083	1.2
Turnout			342,870	72.1

2005^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi	143,564	45.7
	Liberal Democratic	Takayuki Mishina	128,166	40.8
	Communist	Hiroko Yokoyama	25,481	8.1
	New Party Daichi	Masahiro Akimoto	16,698	5.3
Turnout			319,360	69.3

2003^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi	143,907	55.4
	Liberal Democratic	Takayuki Mishina	89,758	34.6
	Communist	Hiroko Yokoyama	25,995	10.0
Turnout			266,485	59.1

2000^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi	132,514	50.7
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Kimoto	76,047	29.1
	Communist	Teizō Komura	32,267	12.3
	Liberal	Nobuyuki Hatta	20,554	7.9

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi	102,577	45.9
	Liberal Democratic	Eiichi Masugi	56,265	25.2
	Communist	Teizō Komura	32,703	14.6
	Independent	Gaku Hasegawa	32,019	14.3
Turnout			233,995	56.7

References

↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成21年9月2日現在における選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数の概要 (Japanese)
↑ 第46回衆議院議員選挙 - 北海道1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats. Retrieved 2012-12-22. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：北海道. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 2012-12-22. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 北海道1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-02. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 北海道1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-02. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 北海道1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-02. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 北海道1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-02. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 北海道1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-02. External link in |work= (help)

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 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)

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 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

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 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

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 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 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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