Hokkaidō 5th district (Hokkaidō [dai-]go-ku (北海道[第]5区)) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Atsubetsu ward in Hokkaido's city of Sapporo and Ishikari Subprefecture without Sapporo. As of 2009, 453,752 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]
The district was created in the 1994 electoral reform from parts of the previous 1st district where six representatives had been elected by single-non-transferable vote. Representatives from the old 1st district included Kingo Machimura and his son Nobutaka Machimura.
Nobutaka Machimura (LDP, Machimura faction) safely won the new 5th district in the 1996 election and defended it against Democratic challenger Chiyomi Kobayashi in subsequent elections. The 2009 general election, though, gave the Democratic Party a landslide victory and Kobayashi surpassed Machimura by 30,000 votes. She resigned in June 2010 over a political funds scandal. Machimura resigned from his seat in the Hokkaidō proportional block to run in the resulting by-election in October 2010 and defeated former construction ministry bureaucrat Shigeyuki Nakamae by a clear margin to regain his district seat.[2]
In the April 24, 2016 by-election, Machimura's son-in-law, Liberal Democrat Yoshiaki Wada (Kōmeitō, Kokoro, Daichi) defeated united opposition independent Maki Ikeda (DP, JCP, SDP, PLP).[3][4]
List of representatives
Representative |
Party |
Dates |
Notes |
Nobutaka Machimura |
| LDP |
1996 – 2009 |
Reelected in the Hokkaidō PR block |
Chiyomi Kobayashi |
| DPJ |
2009 – 2010 |
Resigned on 17 June 2010 |
Vacant (June – October 2010) |
Nobutaka Machimura |
| LDP |
2010 – 2015 |
Died in office |
Vacant (2015–2016) |
Yoshiaki Wada |
| LDP |
2016 – |
Incumbent |
Election results
House of Representatives: Hokkaido 5th district by-election, 2016[6]
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
± |
|
Liberal Democratic |
Yoshiaki Wada (endorsed by Kōmeitō, PFG, NPD) |
135,842 |
52.38 |
1.43 |
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Independent |
Maki Ikeda (endorsed by DP, JCP, SDP, TPJ) |
123,517 |
47.62 |
N/A |
Rejected ballots |
3,015 |
1.15 |
|
Majority |
12,325 |
4.74 |
9.39 |
Turnout |
262,374 |
57.63 |
0.80 |
|
Liberal Democratic hold |
Swing |
N/A |
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References
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- SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993)
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- 5 (22→23 Representatives, 8→4 Councillors)
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- SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942)
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- 5 (20 Representatives)
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- FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924)
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- 12 (16 Representatives)
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- 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)
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First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996 |
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Hokkaidō (8 PR block seats, 12 FPTP district seats) | |
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Tōhoku (13 PR block seats, 23 FPTP district seats) | |
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Kita- (North) Kantō (19 PR block seats, 32 FPTP district seats) | |
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Minami- (South) Kantō (22 PR block seats, 33 FPTP district seats) | |
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Tokyo (17 PR block seats, 25 FPTP district seats) | |
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Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (11 PR block seats, 19 FPTP district seats) | |
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Tōkai (21 PR block seats, 32 FPTP district seats) | |
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Kinki (28 PR block seats, 47 FPTP district seats) | |
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Chūgoku (11 PR block seats, 20 FPTP district seats) | |
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Shikoku (6 PR block seats, 11 FPTP district seats) | |
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Kyūshū (20 PR block seats, 35 FPTP district seats) | |
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(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002, 2013 and 2017 reapportionments |