Hokkaido 5th district

Hokkaido 5th 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	455,878
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Yoshiaki Wada
Created from	Hokkaido's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Sapporo's Atsubetsu Ward and Ishikara Subprefecture

Hokkaidō 5th district (Hokkaidō [dai-]go-ku (北海道[第]5区)) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Atsubetsu ward in Hokkaido's city of Sapporo and Ishikari Subprefecture without Sapporo. As of 2009, 453,752 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

The district was created in the 1994 electoral reform from parts of the previous 1st district where six representatives had been elected by single-non-transferable vote. Representatives from the old 1st district included Kingo Machimura and his son Nobutaka Machimura.

Nobutaka Machimura (LDP, Machimura faction) safely won the new 5th district in the 1996 election and defended it against Democratic challenger Chiyomi Kobayashi in subsequent elections. The 2009 general election, though, gave the Democratic Party a landslide victory and Kobayashi surpassed Machimura by 30,000 votes. She resigned in June 2010 over a political funds scandal. Machimura resigned from his seat in the Hokkaidō proportional block to run in the resulting by-election in October 2010 and defeated former construction ministry bureaucrat Shigeyuki Nakamae by a clear margin to regain his district seat.^[2]

In the April 24, 2016 by-election, Machimura's son-in-law, Liberal Democrat Yoshiaki Wada (Kōmeitō, Kokoro, Daichi) defeated united opposition independent Maki Ikeda (DP, JCP, SDP, PLP).^[3]^[4]

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Nobutaka Machimura	LDP	1996 – 2009	Reelected in the Hokkaidō PR block
Chiyomi Kobayashi	DPJ	2009 – 2010	Resigned on 17 June 2010
Vacant (June – October 2010)
Nobutaka Machimura	LDP	2010 – 2015	Died in office
Vacant (2015-2016)
Yoshiaki Wada	LDP	2016 –	Incumbent

Election results

House of Representatives: Hokkaido 5th district by-election, 2016^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshiaki Wada	135,842	52.38	1.43
	Independent	Maki Ikeda	123,517	47.62	N/A
Rejected ballots			3,015	1.15
Majority			12,325	4.74	9.39
Turnout			262,374	58.43	0.80
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	N/A

2014^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Nobutaka Machimura (endorsed by Komeito)	131,394	50.95
	Democratic	Kenji Katsube	94,975	36.82
	Communist	Ryūji Suzuki	31,523	12.23
Turnout				58.63

2012^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Nobutaka Machimura (endorsed by Komeito)	128,435	48.62
	Democratic	Shigeyuki Nakamae	69,075	26.15
	Your	Yūji Nishida (endorsed by JRP)	41,025	15.53
	Communist	Ryūji Suzuki	21,422	8.11
	Happiness Realization	Yoshinori Moriyama	4,200	1.59

2010 by-election^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Nobutaka Machimura	125,636	52.3
	Democratic	Shigeyuki Nakamae	94,135	39.2
	Communist	Satoshi Miyauchi	15,583	6.5
	Independent	Michiko Kawamura	2,697	1.1
	Happiness Realization	Yoshinori Moriyama	2,325	1.0
Turnout			242,932	53.48

2009^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Chiyomi Kobayashi (endorsed by PNP)	182,952	53.8
	Liberal Democratic	Nobutaka Machimura (endorsed by Komeito) (elected by PR)	151,448	44.6
	Happiness Realization	Yasunori Hatano	5,380	1.6
Turnout			345,458	76.32

2005^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Nobutaka Machimura	173,947	54.2
	Democratic	Chiyomi Kobayashi	124,547	38.8
	Communist	Takahiro Yamazaki	22,521	7.0
Turnout			325,642	73.18

2003^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Nobutaka Machimura	129,035	47.0
	Democratic	Chiyomi Kobayashi (elected by PR)	120,192	43.7
	Communist	Satoshi Miyauchi	25,603	9.3
Turnout			280,993	64.06

2000^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Nobutaka Machimura	123,680	46.0
	Democratic	Chiyomi Kobayashi	84,631	31.4
	Communist	Satoshi Miyauchi	35,006	13.0
	Liberal	Kentarō Ono	25,845	9.6

1996^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Nobutaka Machimura	113,282	49.8
	New Frontier	Kentarō Ono	61,846	27.2
	Communist	Satoshi Miyauchi	44,885	19.7
	Liberal League	Marie Ikenaka	7,576	3.3
Turnout			240,442	60.53

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 (Japanese)
↑ The Japan Times, Oct. 25, 2010: LDP vet clinches Hokkaido by-election
↑ NHK News, April 25, 2016: 衆院補選北海道５区は自民和田義明氏が当選
↑ Hokkaidō Shimbun, April 24, 2016: 北海道５区補選、自民新人の和田氏勝利　池田氏、猛追及ばず
↑ "衆議院北海道第5区選出議員補欠選挙投・開票速報" [House of Representatives - Hokkaido 5th district by-election early returns.] (in Japanese). 24 April 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
↑ 総選挙2014>開票結果　小選挙区　北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2015-02-19.
↑ 第46回衆議院議員選挙 – 北海道5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats. Retrieved 2012-12-22. External link in |work= (help)
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↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>北海道>北海道5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats. Retrieved 2012-12-22. External link in |work= (help)
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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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