Hokkaido 7th district

Hokkaido 7th District
Parliamentary Constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	278,402
Current constituency
Created	1996, renamed in 2003
Seats	One
Party	Liberal Democratic
Representative	Yoshitaka Itō (2009-)
Municipalities	Kushiro and Nemuro Subprefectures
Created from	Hokkaido 5th district (1947–1993)

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 merged into the 6th district and the remaining areas merged into the 10th and 12th districts.

Electorate

The 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, who is serving his third term. In the 2009 general election, the 7th district was the only district countrywide where a Democratic incumbent lost their seat and the only district in Hokkaidō won by the LDP. 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

2014^[4]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Itō (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito)	72,281	45.9
Democratic	Takako Suzuki (Re-elected to PR block)	72,056	45.7
Communist	Akemi Ishikawa	13,218	8.4

2012^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Itō (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito)	72,945	47.2
New Party Daichi	Takako Suzuki (endorsed by Tomorrow Party)	51,051	33.1
Democratic	Hiroko Nakano (PR block incumbent) (Endorsed by People's New Party)	21,513	13.9
Communist	Ryōko Sasaki	8,918	5.8

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshitaka Itō (endorsed by Komeito)	100,150	49.7
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano (Incumbent) (Elected to PR block) (Endorsed by People's New Party)	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 (Incumbent)	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 (Incumbent)	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]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Naoto Kitamura (Incumbent)	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 (Incumbent)	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

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の概要 (Japanese)
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>北海道>自民. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-04-16. 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→6 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

Hokkaidō proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tōhoku 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

Kitakantō 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

Minamikantō 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

Hokurikushin'etsu 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

Tōkai 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 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chūgoku 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)

Kyūshū 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 Ōita 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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