Hokkaido 2nd district
{{Short description|Japan House of Representatives constituency}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}
{{Infobox constituency
|name = Hokkaido 2nd District
|type = Parliamentary
|constituency_link = Hokkaidō 2nd district
|parl_name = Japanese House of Representatives
|image = 衆議院小選挙区_北海道拡大枠.svg
|caption = Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts
|image2 = 衆議院小選挙区_北海道石狩振興局.svg
|caption2 = Sapporo-area detail
|district_label = Prefecture
|district = Hokkaidō
|region_label = Proportional District
|region = Hokkaidō
|electorate = 460,828 (2021){{cite web |title=北海道2区 |url=https://go2senkyo.com/shugiin/19607/senkyoku/38781 |website=go2senkyo |publisher=initial.inc |access-date=11 November 2021}}
|year = 1994
|members_label = Representative
|members = Kenko Matsuki
|seats = One
|elects_howmany = One
|party_label = Party
|party = CDP
|previous = {{Ill|Hokkaido's 1st medium sized district|ja|北海道第1区 (中選挙区)}}
|blank1_name = Municipalities
|blank1_info = Sapporo's Kita Ward and Higashi Ward
}}
{{Nihongo|Hokkaidō 2nd district|北海道[第]2区|Hokkai-dō [dai-]ni-ku}} is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Sapporo, the prefectural capital of Hokkaido 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 general election 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. In 2020 he resigned due to accusations of accepting bribes during his time as Agriculture Minister.{{cite news |title=Ex-farm minister Yoshikawa resigns as lawmaker in wake of scandal |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/21/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-farm-minister-yoshikawa-resigns-lawmaker-wake-scandal/ |access-date=21 December 2020 |work=The Japan Times |agency=Kyodo |date=21 December 2020}} 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 1st district.
List of representatives
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! Representative ! colspan="2" | Party ! Dates ! Notes | |
| rowspan= 2 | Jun'ichi Osanai
| bgcolor={{party color|New Frontier Party (Japan)}} | | NFP
| 1996–1998 | Had represented the pre-reform 1st district for Kōmeitō→NFP since 1993 |
| bgcolor = {{party color|Komeito}} | | Kōmeitō
| 1998-2000 | Joined the New Peace Party (Heiwa Shintō) for a short period before it merged into Kōmeitō in 1998 |
| Takamori Yoshikawa
| bgcolor={{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}} | | LDP
| 2000–2003 | Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2003 |
| Wakio Mitsui
| bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)}}| | DPJ
| 2003–2012 | Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2012 |
| Takamori Yoshikawa
| bgcolor={{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}} | | LDP
| 2012–2020 | Resigned |
| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center| Vacant (December 2020 – April 2021) | |
| Kenko Matsuki
| bgcolor={{party color|Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan}} | | CDP
| 2021– | |
Recent results
{{Election box begin | title=2024{{cite web|url=https://www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/database/shugiin/01/|script-title=ja: 小選挙区 北海道|access-date=28 October 2024|publisher=NHK|language=ja}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
|candidate = Kenkō Matsuki
|votes = 94,002
|percentage = 40.0
|change = {{decrease}}4.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Yūsuke Takahashi
|votes = 76,835
|percentage = 32.7
|change = {{decrease}}7.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nippon Ishin no Kai
|candidate = Izumi Yamazaki
|votes = 32,073
|percentage = 13.7
|change = {{decrease}}3.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japanese Communist Party
|candidate = Shiori Miyauchi
|votes = 31,855
|percentage = 13.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes=
|percentage = 52.61
|change = {{decrease}}3.38
}}
{{Election box hold with party link without swing|
|winner = Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2021{{cite web|url=https://www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/database/shugiin/2021/01/|script-title=ja: 開票速報 小選挙区：北海道 - 2021衆議|access-date=14 November 2021|publisher=NHK|language=ja}}
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
|candidate = Kenkō Matsuki
|votes = 105,807
|percentage = 44.71
|change = {{increase}}0.97
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Yūsuke Takahashi
|votes = 89,745
|percentage = 37.93
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nippon Ishin no Kai
|candidate = Izumi Yamazaki
|votes = 41,076
|percentage = 17.36
|change = {{increase}}0.89
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes =
|percentage = 6.78
|change = {{decrease}}16.90
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 52.60
|change = {{increase}}22.14
}}
{{Election box hold with party link without swing|
|winner = Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|
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|title=House of Representatives: 2021 Hokkaido 2nd district by-election{{cite web|url=https://www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/database/local/sapporo/17291/skh49948.html|script-title=ja:衆院 北海道２区補選|access-date=14 November 2021|publisher=NHK|language=ja}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
|candidate = Kenkō Matsuki
|votes = 59,664
|percentage = 43.74
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Yoshiko Tsuruha
|votes = 27,355
|percentage = 20.06
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nippon Ishin no Kai
|candidate = Izumi Yamazaki
|votes = 22,459
|percentage = 16.47
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Takanori Nagatomo
|votes = 15,738
|percentage = 11.54
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = The Party to Protect the People from NHK
|candidate = Tadayuki Saitō
|votes = 5,630
|percentage = 4.13
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Satoru Kobayashi
|votes = 5,552
|percentage = 4.07
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes =
|percentage = 23.68
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 30.46
|change = {{decrease}}23.66
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
|loser = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2017{{cite web |script-title=ja:北海道-開票速報-2017衆議院選挙（衆院選）：朝日新聞デジタル |url=https://www.asahi.com/senkyo/senkyo2017/kaihyo/A01.html#Area002 |website=asahi.com |access-date=16 October 2021 |publisher=Asahi Shimbun|language=ja}}}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Takamori Yoshikawa
|votes = 104,824
|percentage = 41.35
|change = {{increase}}4.55
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Kibō no Tō
|candidate = Kenkō Matsuki
|votes = 74,425
|percentage = 29.36
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japanese Communist Party
|candidate = Masatoshi Kanakura
|votes = 52,626
|percentage = 20.76
|change = {{increase}}4.86
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nippon Ishin no Kai
|candidate = Yasufumi Owada
|votes = 21,643
|percentage = 8.54
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 30,399
|percentage = 11.99
|change = {{decrease}} 2.2
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 57.12
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link| |
|winner = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2014{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugiin/2014/kaihyou/ya01.html|script-title=ja:総選挙2014>開票結果 小選挙区 北海道|work=Yomiuri Shimbun|access-date=2016-07-08|language=ja|archive-date=17 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317102109/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugiin/2014/kaihyou/ya01.html|url-status=dead}}}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō)
|votes = 88,667
|percentage = 38.8
|change = {{increase}}3.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japan Innovation Party
|candidate = Kenkō Matsuki (endorsed by People's Life Party) (won PR seat)
|votes = 56,375
|percentage = 24.7
|change = did not run in previous election
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Maki Ikeda
|votes = 46,922
|percentage = 20.6
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japanese Communist Party
|candidate = Masatoshi Kanakura
|votes = 36,277
|percentage = 15.9
|change = new
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=2012{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugiin/2012/kaihyou/ya01.htm#k002|script-title=ja:総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 北海道|work=Yomiuri Shimbun|access-date=2014-08-23|language=ja|archive-date=30 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130234740/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugiin/2012/kaihyou/ya01.htm#k002|url-status=dead}}}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō)
|votes = 83,575
|percentage = 35.0
|change = {{increase}}4.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)
|candidate = Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by PNP)
|votes = 55,520
|percentage = 23.2
|change = {{decrease}}31.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japan Restoration Party
|candidate = Miho Takahashi (won PR seat)
|votes = 47,139
|percentage = 19.7
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japanese Communist Party
|candidate = Hideko Ōta
|votes = 28,183
|percentage = 11.8
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Your Party
|candidate = Ryūji Sawada
|votes = 24,605
|percentage = 10.3
|change = new
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=2009{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugiin2009/kaihyou/ya01.htm#k002|script-title=ja:総選挙2009>開票結果 小選挙区 北海道|work=Yomiuri Shimbun|access-date=2014-08-23|language=ja}}}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)
|candidate = Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by PNP)
|votes = 165,267
|percentage = 54.2
|change = +8.9
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō)
|votes = 93,870
|percentage = 30.8
|change = -14.5
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japanese Communist Party
|candidate = Chiharu Oka
|votes = 27,580
|percentage = 9.0
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Social Democratic Party of Japan
|candidate = Yumi Honda
|votes = 14,311
|percentage = 4.7
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Happiness Realization Party
|candidate = Motomi Yamamoto
|votes = 3,782
|percentage = 1.2
|change = new
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=2005{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election2005/kaihyou/ya01.htm#k02|script-title=ja:総選挙2005>開票結果 小選挙区 北海道|work=Yomiuri Shimbun|access-date=2014-08-23|language=ja}}}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)
|candidate = Wakio Mitsui
|votes = 129,357
|percentage = 45.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) (won PR seat)
|votes = 127,031
|percentage = 44.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japanese Communist Party
|candidate = Masatoshi Kanakura
|votes = 29,131
|percentage = 10.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=2003{{cite web|url=http://go2senkyo.com/shugiin/43/senkyoku/650|script-title=ja:第43回衆議院議員選挙|work=Go2Senkyo|access-date=2016-07-08|language=ja}}}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)
|candidate = Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by SDP)
|votes = 107,840
|percentage = 45.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by NCP)
|votes = 83,573
|percentage = 35.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japanese Communist Party
|candidate = Ichirō Oda
|votes = 24,259
|percentage = 10.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Yukiko Ishida (endorsed by Midori no Kaigi)
|votes = 18,227
|percentage = 7.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Mitsunori Hirosaka
|votes = 2,531
|percentage = 1.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2000{{cite web|url=http://go2senkyo.com/shugiin/42/senkyoku/350|script-title=ja:第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 北海道2区|access-date=2016-11-04|publisher=K.K. VoiceJapan|language=ja}}}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by NCP)
|votes = 76,276
|percentage = 31.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)
|candidate = Yukiko Ishida
|votes = 63,965
|percentage = 26.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japanese Communist Party
|candidate = Tomoko Kami
|votes = 60,461
|percentage = 24.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Shizuhiro Matsuki
|votes = 19,775
|percentage = 8.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Social Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Takao Asano
|votes = 15,722
|percentage = 6.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal League (Japan)
|candidate = Tsutomu Fujita
|votes = 8,456
|percentage = 3.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 244,655
|percentage = 61.49
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=1996{{cite web|url=http://www.fps.chuo-u.ac.jp/~sreed/DataPage.html|title=Data Sets|access-date=2016-11-04|publisher=Steven R. Reed|language=en}}}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = New Frontier Party (Japan)
|candidate = Jun’ichi Osanai
|votes = 73,697
|percentage = 34.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Takamori Yoshikawa
|votes = 63,524
|percentage = 29.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japanese Communist Party
|candidate = Yukishi Yamane
|votes = 48,273
|percentage = 22.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal League (Japan)
|candidate = Shizuhiro Matsuki
|votes = 20,009
|percentage = 9.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = Youth Liberal Party
|candidate = Ken’ichi Sawada
|votes = 6,653
|percentage = 3.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 212,156
|percentage = 54.60
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
References
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{{Diet of Japan Hokkaido electoral districts}}
{{Japan House of Representatives Districts}}
{{coord missing|Hokkaidō Prefecture}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hokkaido 02nd district}}
Category:House of Representatives (Japan) districts in Hokkaido
Category:Constituencies established in 1994