is a single-member electoral district for the
House of Representatives
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, the lower house of the
National Diet of Japan. It is located in the prefecture ''(-dō)'' of
Hokkaidō and consists of three wards ''(-ku)'' of the prefectural capital, the city ''(-shi)'' of
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 cit ...
:
Shiroishi,
Toyohira, and
Kiyota.
The current representative from the district is
Hirohisa Takagi of the
Liberal Democratic Party.
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
1st district.
List of representatives
Recent results
References
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Constituencies established in 1996
Politics of Hokkaido
History of Hokkaido
Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)