Hokkaidō 5th district () is a constituency of the
House of Representatives in the
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. It consists of
Atsubetsu ward and a portion of
Shiroishi ward in
Hokkaido's city of
Sapporo and
Ishikari Subprefecture excluding Sapporo and
Ishikari
is a city located in Ishikari Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
As of April 30, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 58,755, with 27,434 households, and a density of 81 persons per km2. The total area is .
On October 1, 2005, the vill ...
city. As of 2009, 453,752 eligible voters were registered in the district.
The district was created in the 1994 electoral reform from parts of the previous
1st district
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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
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challenger Chiyomi Kobayashi in subsequent elections. However, the Democratic Party won the general election of 2009 handily, and Kobayashi defeated Machimura by 30,000 votes. In response to a political funds scandal, she resigned in June 2010. 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.
In the
24 April 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).
Hokkaidō Shimbun
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See also
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, 24 April 2016
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List of representatives
Election results
References
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Politics of Hokkaido
Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)
Constituencies established in 1994
1994 establishments in Japan
Districts in Hokkaido