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 Party 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 Increase1.43
Independent Maki Ikeda 123,517 47.62 N/A
Rejected ballots 3,015 1.15
Majority 12,325 4.74 Decrease9.39
Turnout 262,374 58.43 Decrease0.80
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

  1. 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)
  2. The Japan Times, Oct. 25, 2010: LDP vet clinches Hokkaido by-election
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. "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.
  6. 総選挙2014>開票結果 小選挙区 北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2015-02-19.
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  8. 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)
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  12. 衆議院>第43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)
  13. 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)
  14. 衆議院>第41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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