Hokkaido 2nd district

Hokkaidō 2nd district (北海道[第]2区, Hokkai-dō [dai-]ni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in the prefecture (-dō) of Hokkaidō and consists of two wards (-ku) of the prefectural capital, the city (-shi) of Sapporo: Kita ("North") and Higashi ("East"). As of 2013, 444,440 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Hokkaido 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts
Sapporo-area detail
PrefectureHokkaidō
Proportional DistrictHokkaidō
Electorate446,526
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyLDP
RepresentativeTakamori Yoshikawa (2012–)
Created fromHokkaidō's 1st "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesSapporo's Kita Ward and Higashi Ward

The current Representative from the district since 2012 is Liberal Democrat Takamori Yoshikawa who had lost the previous three elections to Democrat Wakio Mitsui. Yoshikawa has been the LDP candidate in the 2nd district since the initial election of 1996, but only won the district in 2000 (he won a Hokkaidō proportional seat on the LDP list in 1996 and 2005). Mitsui had contested the 3rd district for the NFP in 1996, but ranked third behind candidates from LDP and DPJ; in 2000, he ran only as a candidate on the DPJ proportional list and won a seat, before taking over the DPJ candidacy in the 2nd district in 2003.

Before the introduction of the current first-past-the-post/proportional representation parallel electoral system for the House of Representatives in the 1990s, Sapporo city had been part of the SNTV six-member 1st district.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Jun'ichi Osanai NFP 1996–1998 Had represented the pre-reform 1st district for Kōmeitō→NFP since 1993
Kōmeitō 1998-2000 Joined the New Peace Party (Heiwa Shintō) for a short period before it merged into Kōmeitō in 1998
Takamori Yoshikawa LDP 2000–2003 Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2003
Wakio Mitsui DPJ 2003–2012 Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2012
Takamori Yoshikawa LDP 2012– Incumbent

Recent results
2014[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 88,667 38.8 +3.8
Innovation Kenko Matsuki (endorsed by People's Life Party) (won PR seat) 56,375 24.7 did not run in previous election
Independent Maki Ikeda 46,922 20.6 new
Communist Masatoshi Kanakura 36,277 15.9 new
2012[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 83,575 35.0 +4.2
Democratic Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by PNP) 55,520 23.2 -31.0
Restoration Miho Takahashi (won PR seat) 47,139 19.7 new
Communist Hideko Ōta 28,183 11.8 new
Your Ryūji Sawada 24,605 10.3 new
2009[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by PNP) 165,267 54.2 +8.9
Liberal Democratic Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 93,870 30.8 -14.5
Communist Chiharu Oka 27,580 9.0 new
Social Democratic Yumi Honda 14,311 4.7 new
Happiness Realization Motomi Yamamoto 3,782 1.2 new
2005[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Wakio Mitsui 129,357 45.3
Liberal Democratic Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) (won PR seat) 127,031 44.5
Communist Masatoshi Kanakura 29,131 10.2
2003[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by SDP) 107,840 45.6
Liberal Democratic Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by NCP) 83,573 35.3
Communist Ichirō Oda 24,259 10.3
Independent Yukiko Ishida (endorsed by Midori no Kaigi) 18,227 7.7
Independent Mitsunori Hirosaka 2,531 1.1
2000[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by NCP) 76,276 31.2
Democratic Yukiko Ishida 63,965 26.1
Communist Tomoko Kami 60,461 24.7
Independent Shizuhiro Matsuki 19,775 8.1
Social Democratic Takao Asano 15,722 6.4
Liberal League Tsutomu Fujita 8,456 3.5
Turnout 244,655 61.49
1996[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Frontier Jun’ichi Osanai 73,697 34.7
Liberal Democratic Takamori Yoshikawa 63,524 29.9
Communist Yukishi Yamane 48,273 22.8
Liberal League Shizuhiro Matsuki 20,009 9.4
Youth Liberal Party Ken’ichi Sawada 6,653 3.1
Turnout 212,156 54.60

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