Hokkaido proportional representation block
The Hokkaidō proportional representation block or in official usage the "Hokkaidō electoral district" is one of eleven proportional representation blocks for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Hokkaidō and is one of two PR blocks that covers only one prefecture, the other being Tokyo. Following the introduction of proportional voting, it elected nine representatives in the election of 1996. Since 2000, the Hokkaidō PR block has been represented by eight representatives.
Summary of results
With eight seats, Hokkaidō is the second-smallest PR block, and the vote share needed to gain a seat is usually above ten percent. In 2000, when the combined vote of the two major parties reached a low of 56.8%, the Social Democratic Party managed to obtain a seat with only 8.9% of the vote.In addition to the five national parties that emerged from the party realignments of the 1990s, the regionalist one-man party New Party Daichi has become a contender for PR seats in Hokkaidō. In the first three elections in which it fielded candidates, it managed to obtain the third-largest vote share and one seat. In 2012, the Liberal Democratic Party became first party in the Hokkaidō proportional election for the first time, and has narrowly held onto that position in 2014 and 2017.
Party names are abbreviated as follows :
- DPJ "Democratic Party", Minshutō, Democratic Party
- LDP Liberal Democratic Party, Jiyūminshutō
- Kōmeitō "Justice Party", Kōmeitō, New Justice Party Party
- JCP Japanese Communist Party, Nihon Kyōsantō
- SDP Social Democratic Party, Shakaiminshutō
- NFP New Frontier Party, Shinshintō
- LP Liberal Party, Jiyūtō
- HRP Happiness Realization Party, Kōfuku-jitsugen-tō
- Honshitsu "New Party 'The Essential'", Shintō Honshitsu
List of representatives
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| Rep. Party | Kaori Maruya NFP | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Kaori Maruya Komeito | Hisashi Inatsu Komeito | Hisashi Inatsu Komeito | Hisashi Inatsu Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | Hidemichi Satō Komeito | |||||
| Rep. Party | Kenji Kodama JCP | Kenji Kodama JCP | Kenji Kodama JCP | Kenji Kodama JCP | Kenji Kodama JCP | Kenji Kodama JCP | Kenji Kodama JCP | Hiroko Nakano DPJ | Hiroko Nakano DPJ | Hiroko Nakano DPJ | Seiji Ōsaka DPJ | Seiji Ōsaka DPJ | Seiji Ōsaka DPJ | Hiroko Nakano DPJ | Hiroko Nakano DPJ | Hiroko Nakano DPJ | Takahiro Yokomichi DPJ | Takahiro Yokomichi DPJ | Takahiro Yokomichi DPJ | Kazuya Hatayama JCP | Kazuya Hatayama JCP | Kazuya Hatayama JCP | Hiroshi Kamiya CDP | Hiroshi Kamiya CDP | Hiroshi Kamiya CDP | ||||||||
| Rep. Party | Seiichi Kaneda DPJ | Seiichi Kaneda DPJ | Seiichi Kaneda DPJ | Seiichi Kaneda DPJ | Seiichi Kaneda DPJ | Seiichi Kaneda DPJ | Seiichi Kaneda DPJ | Chiyomi Kobayashi DPJ | Chiyomi Kobayashi DPJ | Chiyomi Kobayashi DPJ | Satoshi Arai DPJ | Tomohiro Ishikawa DPJ | Maya Yamazaki DPJ | Maya Yamazaki DPJ | Maya Yamazaki DPJ | Satoshi Arai DPJ | Satoshi Arai DPJ | Satoshi Arai DPJ | Satoshi Arai DPJ | Satoshi Arai DPJ | Satoshi Arai DP | Maki Ikeda CDP | Maki Ikeda CDP | Maki Ikeda CDP | |||||||||
| Rep. Party | Seiichi Ikehata DPJ | Seiichi Ikehata DPJ | Seiichi Ikehata DPJ | Wakio Mitsui DPJ | Wakio Mitsui DPJ | Wakio Mitsui DPJ | Kenkō Matsuki DPJ | Kenkō Matsuki DPJ | Kenkō Matsuki DPJ | Kenkō Matsuki DPJ | Kenkō Matsuki DPJ | Kenkō Matsuki DPJ | Kenkō Matsuki DPJ | Tatsumaru Yamaoka DPJ | Tatsumaru Yamaoka DPJ | Tatsumaru Yamaoka DPJ | Miho Takahashi JRP | Miho Takahashi JIP | Takako Suzuki DPJ | Takako Suzuki Ind. | Hiranao Honda CDP | Hiranao Honda CDP | Hiranao Honda CDP | ||||||||||
| Rep. Party | Kenji Nakazawa DPJ | Kenji Nakazawa DPJ | Kenji Nakazawa DPJ | Kenji Nakazawa DPJ | Kenji Nakazawa DPJ | Kenji Nakazawa DPJ | Kenji Nakazawa DPJ | Hidenori Sasaki DPJ | Hidenori Sasaki DPJ | Hidenori Sasaki DPJ | Takamori Yoshikawa LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa LDP | Hitomi Kudō DPJ | Hitomi Kudō DPJ | Hitomi Kudō DPJ | Shigeaki Katsunuma LDP | Shigeaki Katsunuma LDP | Shigeaki Katsunuma LDP | Kenkō Matsuki JIP | Kenkō Matsuki DP | Tatsumaru Yamaoka Kibō | Tatsumaru Yamaoka Kibō | Tatsumaru Yamaoka Kibō | |||||||||
| Rep. Party | Toshiyuki Wanibuchi NFP | Toshiyuki Wanibuchi Lib. | Keiko Yamauchi SDP | Keiko Yamauchi SDP | Keiko Yamauchi SDP | Eikō Kaneta LDP | Eikō Kaneta LDP | Eikō Kaneta LDP | Yukari Iijima LDP | Yukari Iijima LDP | Yukari Iijima LDP | Nobutaka Machimura LDP | Hiroshi Imazu LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | Kōichi Watanabe LDP | |||||||||
| Rep. Party | Muneo Suzuki LDP | Muneo Suzuki LDP | Muneo Suzuki LDP | Muneo Suzuki LDP | Muneo Suzuki LDP | Muneo Suzuki Ind. | Gaku Ishizaki LDP | Gaku Ishizaki LDP | Gaku Ishizaki LDP | Hiroshi Imazu LDP | Hiroshi Imazu LDP | Hiroshi Imazu LDP | Tsutomu Takebe LDP | Tsutomu Takebe LDP | Tsutomu Takebe LDP | Seiichi Shimizu LDP | Seiichi Shimizu LDP | Seiichi Shimizu LDP | Hiroshi Imazu LDP | Hiroshi Imazu LDP | Hiroshi Imazu LDP | Takako Suzuki LDP | Takako Suzuki LDP | Takako Suzuki LDP | |||||||||
| Rep. Party | Takamori Yoshikawa LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa LDP | Hirofumi Iwakura LDP | Hirofumi Iwakura LDP | Hirofumi Iwakura LDP | Takafumi Yamashita LDP | Takafumi Yamashita LDP | Takafumi Yamashita LDP | Muneo Suzuki NPD | Muneo Suzuki NPD | Muneo Suzuki NPD | Muneo Suzuki NPD | Muneo Suzuki NPD | Takahiro Asano NPD | Tomohiro Ishikawa NPD | Takako Suzuki NPD | Kazuo Maeda LDP | Kazuo Maeda LDP | Kazuo Maeda LDP | Toshimitsu Funahashi LDP | Toshimitsu Funahashi LDP | Toshimitsu Funahashi LDP | ||||||||||
| Rep. Party | Kōkō Satō LDP | Kōkō Satō LDP | Kōkō Satō LDP'' | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished | Seat abolished |
Recent results
2017
- #: List rank assigned by the party
- District column: For double candidates who concurrently ran in a single-member electoral district, the district column contains the electoral district where they stood and the sekihairitsu, the ratio of margin of defeat. It determines the ranking of candidates who are put on the same list rank by their party.
- : Double candidates who are not eligible for election in the proportional block either because they won their district races or were disqualified for having received less than 10% of the vote in the district race
2014
- #: List rank assigned by the party
- District column: For double candidates who concurrently ran in a single-member electoral district, the district column contains the electoral district where they stood and the sekihairitsu, the ratio of margin of defeat. It determines the ranking of candidates who are put on the same list rank by their party.
- : Double candidates who are not eligible for election in the proportional block either because they won their district races or were disqualified for having received less than 10% of the vote in the district race
2012
- #: List rank assigned by the party
- District column: For double candidates who concurrently ran in a single-member electoral district, the district column contains the electoral district where they stood and the sekihairitsu, the ratio of margin of defeat. It determines the ranking of candidates who are put on the same list rank by their party.
- : Double candidates who are not eligible for election in the proportional block either because they won their district races or were disqualified
2009