Hokkaido 6th district

Hokkaidō 6th district (北海道[第]6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 (-dō) of Hokkaidō and consists of Hokkaido's Kamikawa Subprefecture.

Hokkaido 6th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureHokkaido
Proportional DistrictHokkaido
Electorate430,198[1]
Current constituency
SeatsOne
PartyDP
RepresentativeTakahiro Sasaki (2005-2012,2014–)
Created fromHokkaido's 2nd "medium-sized" district
SubprefectureKamikawa

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Hidenori Sasaki DPJ 1996 – 2003
Hiroshi Imazu LDP 2003 – 2005
Takahiro Sasaki DPJ 2005 – 2012
Hiroshi Imazu LDP 2012 – 2014
Takahiro Sasaki DPJ 2014 – 2016 Incumbent
DP 2016 –

Recent results
2014[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 104,595 45.3 16.4
Liberal Democratic Hiroshi Imazu 101,748 44.1 1.2
Communist Kazutoshi Ogyu 24,656 10.6 2.7
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing 7.6
2012[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Hiroshi Imazu 103,064 42.9 5.1
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 69,272 28.9 26.5
Your Takanobu Azumi 48,736 20.3 N/A
Communist Kazutoshi Ogyu 18,915 7.9 2.3
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic Swing 15.8
2009[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 175,879 55.4 8.7
Liberal Democratic Hiroshi Imazu 119,964 37.8 8.0
Communist Kazutoshi Ogyu 17,884 5.6 2.0
Happiness Realization Shinichi Takeda 3.554 1.1 N/A
Democratic hold Swing 8.4
2005[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 143,860 46.7
Liberal Democratic Hideyuki Kaneda 141,099 45.8
Communist Hachiro Tanabe 23,343 7.6
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing

References
  1. "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  2. "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  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.

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