Hokkaido 6th district

Hokkaido 6th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	430,198^[1]
Current constituency
Seats	One
Party	DP
Representative	Takahiro Sasaki (2005-2012,2014–)
Created from	Hokkaido's 2nd "medium-sized" district
Subprefecture	Kamikawa

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.

List of Representatives

Representative		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
Takahiro Sasaki	DP	2016 –	Incumbent

Recent results

2014^[2]
	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]
	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]
	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]
	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

↑ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
↑ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
↑ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
↑ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
↑ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

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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