is a single-member electoral district for the
House of Representatives
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, the lower house of the
National Diet
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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 city ...
, the prefectural capital of
Hokkaido
is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel.
The la ...
and consists of the
Higashi ("East") ward and most of the
Kita ("North") ward.
The current Representative is
Kenko Matsuki
is a Japanese politician and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.
Overview
A native of Sapporo, Hokkaidō and graduate of Aoyama Gakuin University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003 aft ...
, member of the
CDP. He won the seat in a special election in April 2021 and was reelected in the
general election
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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
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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 Y ...
. In 2020 he resigned due to accusations of accepting bribes during his time as
Agriculture Minister
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.
Yoshikawa had lost the previous three elections to
Democrat
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Wakio Mitsui
was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Sapporo, Hokkaido and graduate of Showa Pharmaceutical University
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. 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
1st district.
List of representatives
Recent results
References
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Politics of Hokkaido
Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)