Hokkaido at-large district
{{Short description|Japan House of Councillors constituency}}
{{Infobox constituency
|name=Hokkaido at-large district
|nativename={{no bold|北海道選挙区}}
|type=Parliamentary
|parl_name=House of Councillors
|image=Hokkaido in Japan (claimed hatched).svg
|image_size=250px
|district_label=Prefecture
|district=Hokkaido
|electorate=4,424,026 (as of September 2022){{cite web|url=https://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/meibo/meibo_R04.html|access-date=2023-01-04|title=総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数|language=ja|trans-title=Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022}}
|year=1947
|seats=6
|member_label=Councillors
|member=Class of 2019:
{{ubl
|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}|border=darkgray}} Harumi Takahashi (LDP)
|{{Color box|{{party color|Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan}}|border=darkgray}} Kenji Katsube (CDP)
|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}|border=darkgray}} Tsuyohito Iwamoto (LDP)
}}
Class of 2022:
{{ubl
|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}|border=darkgray}} Gaku Hasegawa (LDP)
|{{Color box|{{party color|Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan}}|border=darkgray}} Eri Tokunaga (CDP)
|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}|border=darkgray}} Toshimi Funabashi (LDP)
}}}}
The Hokkaido at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of the prefecture (dō) of Hokkai[dō] and is represented by six Councillors electing three at a time every three years by single non-transferable vote for six-year terms. In the election period from 2019 to 2022, Hokkaido's Councillors are (party affiliation as of September 2019):
- Gaku Hasegawa (LDP, Hosoda faction; term ends in 2022),
- Eri Tokunaga (DPFP; term ends in 2022),
- Yoshio Hachiro (CDP; term ends in 2022),
- Harumi Takahashi (LDP; term ends in 2025),
- Kenji Katsube (CDP; term ends in 2025) and
- Tsuyohito Iwamoto (LDP; term ends in 2025).
After the House of Councillors had replaced the House of Peers according to the constitution of 1947, Hokkaido was represented by eight Councillors. In the early years of the 1955 System, all four seats went to the two major postwar parties, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Japan Socialist Party (JSP). But smaller parties such as the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) had a chance to pick up seats in Hokkaido as the vote share sufficient to gain a seat was often significantly below 20 percent. The high number of candidates increased the risk of vote splitting for the major parties: In 1974, two incumbent LDP candidates and conservative independent Tatsuo Takahashi ranked 5th, 6th and 7th leaving all four seats to the center-left to left opposition parties Kōmeitō, JSP and JCP.
In a major reapportionment in 1994 the number of Councillors from Hokkaido was halved to four. It became effective in the 1995 and 1998 elections. During the period as two-member district, Hokkaidō usually split seats evenly between opposition and ruling parties like most two-member districts – although the Democrats unsuccessfully aimed for both seats in the 2004, 2007 and 2010 elections. In another 2015 reapportionment, effective in the two classes from the 2016 and 2019 elections, Hokkaidō's representation in the upper house was raised to six.
Elected Councillors
Recent election results
Notes:
- Decimals from anbunhyō ("fractional proportional votes" from ambiguous votes) omitted; note that the rounded whole numbers may still include fractions of numbers >2 of ambiguous votes and do not necessarily represent "whole" voters
- (2016 only) (*): ineligible as runner-up replacement (kuriage-tōsen), lost deposit
{{Election box begin | title=2019}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LDP
|candidate = Harumi Takahashi
|votes = 828,220
|percentage = 34.4
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = CDP
|candidate = Kenji Katsube
|votes = 523,737
|percentage = 21.7
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LDP
|candidate = Tsuyohito Iwamoto
|votes = 454,285
|percentage = 18.8
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = JCP
|candidate = Kazuya Hatayama
|votes = 265,862
|percentage = 11.0
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = DPP
|candidate = Nami Haraya
|votes = 227,174
|percentage = 9.4
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = N-Koku
|candidate = Takahira Yamamoto
|votes = 63,308
|percentage = 2.6
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Meeting to Decide About Euthanasia
|candidate = Osamu Nakamura
|votes = 23,785
|percentage = 1.0
|change = -0.1
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = HRP
|candidate = Yoshinori Moriyama
|votes = 13,724
|percentage = 0.6
|change = -0.2
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = The Worker's Party aiming for liberation of labor
|candidate = Seiji Iwase
|votes = 10,108
|percentage = 0.4
|change = new
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=2016}}
{{Election box candidate
|candidate = Gaku Hasegawa
|votes = 648,269
|percentage = 25.5
|change = -7.8
}}
{{Election box candidate
|candidate = Eri Tokunaga
|votes = 559,996
|percentage = 22.0
|change = -3.6
}}
{{Election box candidate
|candidate = Yoshio Hachiro
|votes = 491,129
|percentage = 19.3
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|candidate = Katsuhiro Kakiki
|votes = 482,688
|percentage = 19.0
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = JCP
|candidate = Tsuneto Mori
|votes = 239,564
|percentage = 9.4
|change = (to 2013) -2.0
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Kokoro
|candidate = Kazuo Satō (*)
|votes = 34,092
|percentage = 1.3
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Support no party
|candidate = Osamu Nakamura (*)
|votes = 29,072
|percentage = 1.1
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Yoshihiro Iida (*)
|votes = 26,686
|percentage = 1.0
|change = new
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = HRP
|candidate = Yoshinori Moriyama (*)
|votes = 21,006
|percentage = 0.8
|change = (to 2013) -0.2
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Kan'yō Mizukoshi (*)
|votes = 12,944
|percentage = 0.5
|change = new
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=2013}}
{{Election box candidate
|candidate = Chūichi Date
|votes = 903,693
|percentage = 37.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Katsuya Ogawa
|votes = 583,995
|percentage = 24.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = NPD
|candidate = Takahiro Asano
|votes = 352,434
|percentage = 14.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = JCP
|candidate = Tsuneto Mori
|votes = 272,102
|percentage = 11.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = YP
|candidate = Takanobu Azumi
|votes = 261,802
|percentage = 10.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = HRP
|candidate = Yoshinori Moriyama
|votes = 23,194
|percentage = 1.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,502,360
|change = (to 2010) -7.48
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=2010}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LDP
|candidate = Gaku Hasegawa
|votes = 948,267
|percentage = 34.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Eri Tokunaga
|votes = 708,523
|percentage = 25.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Masashi Fujikawa
|votes = 567,167
|percentage = 20.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = YP
|candidate = Ken'ichi Nakagawa
|votes = 320,992
|percentage = 11.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = JCP
|candidate = Kazuya Hatayama
|votes = 200,231
|percentage = 7.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = HRP
|candidate = Makoto Ōbayashi
|votes = 22,166
|percentage = 0.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,849,955
|change = (to 2007) -0.51
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=2007}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Katsuya Ogawa
|votes = 1,018,597
|percentage = 36.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LDP (NK)
|candidate = Chūichi Date
|votes = 757,463
|percentage = 26.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent (NPD, DPJ, PNP)
|candidate = Kaori Sahara
|votes = 621,497
|percentage = 22.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = JCP
|candidate = Kazuya Hatayama
|votes = 206,463
|percentage = 7.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Hideyoshi Hashiba
|votes = 103,282
|percentage = 3.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = SDP
|candidate = Takao Asano
|votes = 79,474
|percentage = 2.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Masayuki Arakawa
|votes = 22,154
|percentage = 0.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Ishin
|candidate = Nobuhito Sendai
|votes = 18,234
|percentage = 0.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,907,079
|change = (to 2004) +0.66
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=2004}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LDP
|candidate = Yoshio Nakagawa
|votes = 741,831
|percentage = 26.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Naoki Minezaki
|votes = 618,277
|percentage = 22.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Masahito Nishikawa
|votes = 552,993
|percentage = 19.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Muneo Suzuki
|votes = 485,382
|percentage = 17.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = JCP
|candidate = Chiharu Oka
|votes = 254,338
|percentage = 9.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = SDP
|candidate = Keiko Yamauchi
|votes = 106,631
|percentage = 3.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Ishin
|candidate = Nobuhito Sendai
|votes = 19,020
|percentage = 0.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=2001}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LDP
|candidate = Chūichi Date
|votes = 985,274
|percentage = 39.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Katsuya Ogawa
|votes = 683,704
|percentage = 27.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = JCP
|candidate = Satoshi Miyauchi
|votes = 284,575
|percentage = 11.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LP
|candidate = Masahito Nishikawa
|votes = 196,348
|percentage = 7.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = SDP
|candidate = Yoshiko Sugiyama
|votes = 165,670
|percentage = 6.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = WP
|candidate = Tamiko Matsumura
|votes = 87,597
|percentage = 3.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Mitsuhiro Yokoyama
|votes = 36,119
|percentage = 1.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LL
|candidate = Akifumi Kumagai
|votes = 33,500
|percentage = 1.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = NSP
|candidate = Nobuyuki Saitō
|votes = 25,261
|percentage = 1.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Ishin
|candidate = Nobuhito Sendai
|votes = 11,469
|percentage = 0.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=1998}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Naoki Minezaki
|votes = 804,611
|percentage = 31.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LDP
|candidate = Yoshio Nakagawa
|votes = 723,786
|percentage = 28.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = JCP
|candidate = Tomoko Uchiyama
|votes = 605,119
|percentage = 23.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LP
|candidate = Kentarō Ono
|votes = 161,505
|percentage = 6.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = SDP
|candidate = Shirō Kayano
|votes = 146,159
|percentage = 5.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = NSP
|candidate = Masami Mizuyoshi
|votes = 34,374
|percentage = 1.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = YLP
|candidate = Ken'ichi Sawada
|votes = 33,390
|percentage = 1.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LL
|candidate = Ryōko Matsukawa
|votes = 32,557
|percentage = 1.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Hideo Murata
|votes = 28,480
|percentage = 1.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Ishin
|candidate = Nobuhito Sendai
|votes = 7,249
|percentage = 0.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=1995}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = JSP
|candidate = Hisamitsu Sugano
|votes = 563,029
|percentage = 27.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = NFP
|candidate = Katsuya Ogawa
|votes = 511,139
|percentage = 25.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = LDP
|candidate = Yoshitaka Kimoto
|votes = 488,807
|percentage = 24.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = JCP
|candidate = Yūko Takasaki
|votes = 392,714
|percentage = 19.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = New Era
|candidate = Etsuko Yoshino
|votes = 40,106
|percentage = 2.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Hiroshi Maeya
|votes = 21,716
|percentage = 1.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
References
- House of Councillors: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090902102101/http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/san60/s60_shiryou/giin_a_sa.htm Alphabetical list of former Councillors]
{{reflist}}
{{Diet of Japan Hokkaido electoral districts}}
{{Japan House of Councillors Districts}}
{{coord missing|Hokkaidō Prefecture}}