Jump to content

Main menu Navigation ●Main page ●Contents ●Current events ●Random article ●About Wikipedia ●Contact us ●Donate Contribute ●Help ●Learn to edit ●Community portal ●Recent changes ●Upload file

●Create account ●Log in ●Create account ● Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more ●Contributions ●Talk

(Top) 1 History 2 List of representatives 3 Recent results 4 Notes 5 References

Hokkaido 8th district

●Français ●한국어 ●日本語 ●中文 Edit links ●Article ●Talk ●Read ●Edit ●View history Tools Actions ●Read ●Edit ●View history General ●What links here ●Related changes ●Upload file ●Special pages ●Permanent link ●Page information ●Cite this page ●Get shortened URL ●Download QR code ●Wikidata item Print/export ●Download as PDF ●Printable version Appearance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hokkaido 8th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	361,180 (2021)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1996
Seats	One
Party	Constitutional Democratic
Representative	Seiji Osaka
Created from	Hokkaido 3rd district (1947–1993)
Subprefecture	Oshima and Hiyama

Hokkaidō 8th district (北海道[第]8区) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in the prefecture of Hokkaidō and consists of Hokkaido's Hiyama and Oshima subprefectures.

History

[edit]

From 1947 the district was known as the Hokkaido 3rd district and elected three members to the House. Under the 1994 reforms that came into effect at the 1996 general election, the district's boundaries were not changed but it was renamed to the 8th district and had its representation reduced to one. This reduction was offset by the introduction of the multi-member Hokkaido proportional representation block that elects eight members to represent the entire prefecture.

List of representatives

[edit]

Representative		Dates	Notes
Yoshio Hachiro	DPJ	1996 – 2003	Switched to the Hokkaido 4th district.
Seiichi Kaneta	DPJ	2003 – 2009
Seiji Osaka	DPJ	2009 – 2012
Kazuo Maeda	LDP	2012 – 2014	won a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2014
Seiji Osaka	DPJ	2014 – 2017
Seiji Osaka	CDP	2017 –

Recent results

[edit]

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutional Democratic	Seiji Osaka	112,857	52.68	2.7
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuo Maeda	101,379	47.32	2.7
Turnout				60.08	0.33
	Constitutional Democratic hold		Swing	2.7

2017
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutional Democratic	Seiji Osaka^[a]	125,771	55.4	8.1
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuo Maeda	101,243	44.6	0.4
Turnout			227,014	60.41	5.82
	Constitutional Democratic hold		Swing

2014^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Seiji Osaka	97,745	47.3
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuo Maeda [ja]	91,351	44.2
	Communist	Yuko Harada	17,465	8.5
Turnout			206,561	54.59	4.63
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing

2012^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuo Maeda [ja]	107,937	47.5
	Democratic	Seiji Osaka	77,402	34.1
	Tomorrow	Mika Kitade	25,793	11.4
	Communist	Kadai Takahashi	15,953	7.0
Turnout			227,085	59.22
	Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic		Swing

2009^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Seiji Osaka	171,114	62.6
Liberal Democratic	Keishiro Fukushima [ja]	58,046	21.2
Independent	Kenji Sato	40,090	14.7
Happiness Realization	Akira Nishino	4,075	1.5

2005^[6]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Seiichi Kaneta	134,963	49.8
Liberal Democratic	Kenji Sato	114,141	42.1
Communist	Kazuo Maekawa	21,891	8.1

Notes

[edit]

^ The CDP is the successor party of the DP in this district, therefore the voting figures of the DP incumbent are used as a reference. Besides, Osaka run as an independent candidate because he announced so before the election. But he is able to be counted as a CDP candidate because he has joined CDP and was fielded by CDP after the election.

References

[edit]

^ "北海道8区". go2senkyo. initial.inc. Retrieved 17 November 2021.

^ 開票速報小選挙区：北海道 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 17 November 2021.

^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

Hokkaidō's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12 (13)
PR: Hokkaidō PR block
House of Councillors: At-large (13→12 Representatives (PR block: 9→8), 4→6 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5 (22→23 Representatives, 8→4 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946): 1; 2 (23 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5 (20 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12 (16 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts era (1902–1917), in Hokkaidō FPTP single-member districts: Sapporo city (ku); Hakodate city (ku); Otaru city (ku); subprefectures 1; subprefectures 2; subprefectures 3 (3→6 Representatives)

v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 23 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 32 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 33 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 25 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 19 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 32 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 47 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hokkaido_8th_district&oldid=1184530856" Categories: ●House of Representatives (Japan) districts in Hokkaido ●Constituencies established in 1996 ●1996 establishments in Japan Hidden categories: ●CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja) ●CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja) ●Articles with short description ●Short description matches Wikidata ●Articles containing Japanese-language text ●Hokkaidō Prefecture articles missing geocoordinate data ●All articles needing coordinates ●Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata ●This page was last edited on 11 November 2023, at 00:05 (UTC). ●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. ●Privacy policy ●About Wikipedia ●Disclaimers ●Contact Wikipedia ●Code of Conduct ●Developers ●Statistics ●Cookie statement ●Mobile view