Hokkaido 7th district

Hokkaido 7th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	278,402
Current constituency
Created	1994, altered in 2002
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Yoshitaka Itō (2009-)
Created from	Hokkaido's 5th "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Kushiro and Nemuro Subprefectures

Hokkaidō 7th district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaidō. In a 2002 redistricting and reapportionment, Hokkaidō lost one seat and what had been the Hokkaido 13th district in the 1996 and 2000 general elections was renamed the 7th district. The previous 7th district was split up: The largest part became the new 6th district, some parts were transferred to the 10th and 12th districts.

Current 7th district

The old 13th/current 7th district is located in Eastern Hokkaidō and covers the Kushiro and Nemuro subprefectures, in the Japanese viewpoint theoretically including the "Northern Territories (Southern Kuriles) administered by the Russian Federation. As of 2009, 278,402 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

The district is currently represented by Liberal Democrat Yoshitaka Itō (Ibuki faction). In the 2009 general election, the 7th district was the only district countrywide where a Democratic incumbent lost his seat and the only district in Hokkaidō the LDP could win. In the previous election of 2005 when the LDP won a landslide victory, it was one of few districts where a Democrat could unseat a Liberal Democratic incumbent.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Hokkaidō 13th district
Naoto Kitamura	NFP	1996–2000	Left NFP in 1997 and returned to the LDP
Naoto Kitamura	LDP	2000–2003
Hokkaidō 7th district
Naoto Kitamura	LDP	2003–2005	Failed reelection in the Hokkaidō PR block^[2]
Hiroko Nakano	DPJ	2005–2009	Reelected in the Hokkaidō PR block^[3]
Yoshitaka Itō	LDP	2009–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Itō (endorsed by Komeito)	100,150	47.24
	New Party Daichi	Takako Suzuki (endorsed by TPJ)	51,051	33.06
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano (endorsed by PNP)	21,513	13.93
	Communist	Ryōko Sasaki	8,918	5.77

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Itō (endorsed by Komeito)	100,150	49.7
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano (endorsed by PNP) (elected by PR)	99,236	49.2
	Happiness Realization	Sachiko Kanenari	2,131	1.1
Turnout			205,413	73.91

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano	95,473	48.3
	Liberal Democratic	Naoto Kitamura	86,924	43.9
	Communist	Kazushige Murakami	15,438	7.8
Turnout			204,442	71.37

2003^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Naoto Kitamura	85,585	49.8
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano (elected by PR)	72,508	42.2
	Communist	Yasuhiko Yagi	13,617	7.9
Turnout			177,431	61.52

2000: Hokkaidō 13th district^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Naoto Kitamura	86,567	46.9
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano	55,732	30.2
	Liberal	Toshiyuki Wanibuchi	25,169	13.6
	Communist	Tadashi Shibutani^[10]	16,055	8.7
	Others	Shin'ichi Katō	1,071	0.6

1996: Hokkaidō 13th district^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Naoto Kitamura	83,490	42.8
	Liberal Democratic	Muneo Suzuki (elected by PR)	55,491	28.4
	Democratic	Atsushi Okada	41,565	21.3
	Communist	Akemi Ishikawa	14,736	7.5
Turnout			198,436	68.83

Previous 7th district 1996–2000

The old 7th district covered Northern Hokkaidō and consisted of the Kamikawa, Rumoi and Sōya subprefectures. Its only representative was Liberal Democrat Eikō Kaneta who had to share an alternating LDP candidacy in the new Hokkaidō 6th district with Hiroshi Imazu after the redistricting (Costa Rica method).

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Hokkaidō 7th district
Eikō Kaneta		LDP	1996–2003	Moved to PR (Costa Rica method), reelected in the Hokkaidō PR block

Election results

2000: Hokkaidō 7th district^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Eikō Kaneta	94,290	49.2
	Democratic	Yasuki Sakurada	85,553	44.6
	Communist	Masatada Mashiko	11,889	6.2

1996: Hokkaidō 7th district^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Eikō Kaneta	65,955	34.4
	Democratic	Yasuki Sakurada	62,549	32.6
	New Frontier	Yoshiteru Uekusa	52,300	27.2
	Communist	Masatada Mashiko	11,149	5.8
Turnout			196,227	71.46

References

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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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