Hokkaido 8th district

Hokkaidō 8th district (北海道[第]8区) 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 of Hokkaidō and consists of Hokkaido's Hiyama and Oshima subprefectures.

Hokkaido 8th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureHokkaido
Proportional DistrictHokkaido
Electorate386,038[1]
Current constituency
SeatsOne
PartyConstitutional Democratic
RepresentativeSeiji Osaka
Created fromHokkaido 3rd district (1947–1993)
SubprefectureOshima and Hiyama

History

From 1947 the district was known as the Hokkaido 3rd district and elected three members to the House. Under the 1994 reforms that came into effect at the 1996 general election, the district's boundaries were not changed but it was renamed to the 8th district and had its representation reduced to one. This reduction was offset by the introduction of the multi-member Hokkaido proportional representation block that elects eight members to represent the entire prefecture.

Recent results
2017
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Constitutional Democratic Seiji Osaka[2] 125,771 55.4 8.1
Liberal Democratic Kazuo Maeda 101,243 44.6 0.4
Turnout 227,014 60.41 5.82
Constitutional Democratic hold Swing
2014[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Seiji Osaka 97,745 47.3
Liberal Democratic Kazuo Maeda 91,351 44.2
Communist Yuko Harada 17,465 8.5
Turnout 206,561 54.59 4.63
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing
2012[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Kazuo Maeda 107,937 47.5
Democratic Seiji Osaka 77,402 34.1
Tomorrow Mika Kitade 25,793 11.4
Communist Kadai Takahashi 15,953 7.0
Turnout 227,085 59.22
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic Swing
2009[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Seiji Osaka 171,114 62.6
Liberal Democratic Keishiro Fukushima 58,046 21.2
Independent Kenji Sato 40,090 14.7
Happiness Realization Akira Nishino 4,075 1.5
2005[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Seiichi Kaneta 134,963 49.8
Liberal Democratic Kenji Sato 114,141 42.1
Communist Kazuo Maekawa 21,891 8.1

References
  1. "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  2. The CDP is the successor party of the DP in this district, therefore the voting figures of the DP incumbent are used as a reference. Besides, Osaka run as an independent candidate because he announced so before the election. But he is able to be counted as a CDP candidate because he has joined CDP and was fielded by CDP after the election.
  3. "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  4. "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  5. "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  6. "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

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