is a single-member electoral district for the

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, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous ci ...

, the prefectural capital of

Hokkaido is Japan, Japan's Japanese archipelago, second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost Prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own List of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; th ...

and consists of the Higashi ("East") ward and most of the Kita ("North") ward. The current Representative is Kenko Matsuki, member of the CDP. He won the seat in a special election in April 2021 and was reelected in the

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later that year. Matsuki was formerly a representative of the Hokkaido 12th district. The Representative from the district from 2012 to 2020 was Liberal Democrat

Takamori Yoshikawa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who served as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and as a member of the House of Representatives the Hokkaido 2nd district in the Diet. A native of Tokyo who grew up ...

. In 2020 he resigned due to accusations of accepting bribes during his time as Agriculture Minister. Yoshikawa had lost the previous three elections to Democrat Wakio Mitsui. Yoshikawa had been the LDP candidate in the 2nd district since the initial election of 1996, but only won the district in 2000 (he won a Hokkaidō proportional seat on the LDP list in 1996 and 2005). Mitsui had contested the 3rd district for the NFP in 1996, but ranked third behind candidates from LDP and DPJ; in 2000, he ran only as a candidate on the DPJ proportional list and won a seat, before taking over the DPJ candidacy in the 2nd district in 2003. Before the introduction of the current first-past-the-post/proportional representation parallel electoral system for the House of Representatives in the 1990s, Sapporo city had been part of the SNTV six-member

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