is a single-member electoral district for the
House of Representatives, the lower house of the
National Diet
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of Japan. It is located in the prefecture ''(-dō)'' of
Hokkaidō
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and consists of three wards ''(-ku)'' of the prefectural capital, the city ''(-shi)'' of
Sapporo:
Shiroishi,
Toyohira, and
Kiyota.
The current representative from the district is
Hirohisa Takagi
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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
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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)