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Hokkaido 8th district 
Summary
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.
| 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 |
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 | Party | 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 | ||
| CDP | 2017 – | |||
Recent results edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDP | Seiji Osaka | 112,857 | 52.68 |  2.7
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| Liberal Democratic | Kazuo Maeda | 101,379 | 47.32 |  2.7
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| Turnout | 60.08 | 0.33
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| CDP hold | Swing | 2.7
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDP | Seiji Osaka[a] | 125,771 | 55.4 | 8.1
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| Liberal Democratic | Kazuo Maeda | 101,243 | 44.6 | 0.4
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| Turnout | 227,014 | 60.41 | 5.82
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| CDP hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Seiji Osaka | 97,745 | 47.3 | ||
| Liberal Democratic | Kazuo Maeda | 91,351 | 44.2 | ||
| Communist | Yuko Harada | 17,465 | 8.5 | ||
| Turnout | 206,561 | 54.59 | 4.63
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| Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Kazuo Maeda | 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 |
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| Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Seiji Osaka | 171,114 | 62.6 | ||
| Liberal Democratic | Keishiro Fukushima | 58,046 | 21.2 | ||
| Independent | Kenji Sato | 40,090 | 14.7 | ||
| Happiness Realization | Akira Nishino | 4,075 | 1.5 | ||
| Party | 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.
- ^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
- ^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
- ^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.