Hokkaido 8th district

Hokkaido 8th District
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	386,038
Current constituency
Seats	One
Party	Constitutional Democratic
Representative	Seiji Osaka
Created from	Hokkaido 3rd district (1947–1993)
Subprefecture	Oshima and Hiyama

Hokkaidō 8th district (北海��[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[]

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.

Recent results[]

2017
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutional Democratic	Seiji Osaka^[2]	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	[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	[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	[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

References[]

^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-19.
^ 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.
^ "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.

[1] "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-19.

[2] 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.

[3] "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

[4] "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

[5] "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

[6] "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

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show v t 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) (23 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 2 (20 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) (16 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts era (1902–1917), in Hokkaidō FPTP single-member districts (3→6 Representatives)

show v t First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori-3rd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Hirotaka Akamatsu, Aichi-5th
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (13 block seats, 23 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5
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 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Minami- (South) Kantō (22 block seats, 33 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1
Tokyo (17 block seats, 25 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 6 7 8 10 17 18 25
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (, 19 district seats)	Niigata 1 5 Toyama Ishikawa 2 Fukui Nagano 3
Tōkai (, 32 district seats)	Gifu 1 Shizuoka 1 Aichi 5 6 7 Mie 3
Kinki (, 47 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 Kyoto 2 3 5 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 19 Hyōgo 1 2 8 11 Nara 1 2 Wakayama 3
Chūgoku (11 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 Shimane Okayama 4 Hiroshima 1 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 Kagawa 2 Ehime Kōchi
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district seats)	Fukuoka 8 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Iwate 4 Kumamoto 5

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	386,038^[1]
Current constituency
Seats	One
Party	Constitutional Democratic
Representative	Seiji Osaka
Created from	Hokkaido 3rd district (1947–1993)
Subprefecture	Oshima and Hiyama