Hokkaido 12th district

Hokkaidō 12th District
Hokkaidō 12th District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture; single-member districts
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	286,186 (2021)
Major settlements	Kitami City, Abashiri, Monbetsu and Wakkanai
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Arata Takebe
Municipalities	Sōya Subprefecture and Okhotsk Subprefecture

Hokkaidō 12th District (北海道第12区) is an electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. The district was established in 1994 and had major boundary changes in 2002 and 2017.

Area

The 12th District is in northern Hokkaido. It covers the areas of Sōya Subprefecture and Okhotsk Subprefecture; this includes the cities of Kitami, Abashiri, Monbetsu, and Wakkanai. It occupies about one-sixth of the area of Hokkaido and is the largest constituency in the House of Representatives (14,740.93 km², the same as Iwate Prefecture).^[2]

In 2002, the Soya Branch Office was transferred to the 7th district of Hokkaido. In 2017, The town of Horonobe was moved from the 10th district to the 12th district.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Tsutomu Takebe	LDP	1996–2009	Former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Kenkō Matsuki	DPJ	2009–2012
Arata Takebe	LDP	2012-	Incumbent

Election results

2024
Party		Candidate
	LDP	Arata Takebe
	CDP	Eisei Kawaharada
Turnout

2021^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Arata Takebe	97,634	58.43	4.29
	CDP	Eisei Kawaharada	55,321	33.11
	JCP	Makoto Sugawara	14,140	8.46	4.86
Majority				25.32	3.70
Turnout				59.82	1.66
	LDP hold		Swing

2017
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Arata Takebe	97,113	54.1
	Kibo	Mika Minakami	58,422	32.6
	JCP	Makoto Sugawara	23,830	13.3
Turnout			179,365	61.48
	LDP hold		Swing

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Arata Takebe	92,357	53.4
	DPJ	Mika Minakami	62,035	35.9
	JCP	Makoto Sugawara	18,451	10.7
Turnout			172,843	58.70
	LDP hold		Swing

2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Arata Takebe	91,208	50.3
	NPD	Kenkō Matsuki	52,976	29.2
	DPJ	Maya Yamazaki	25,501	14.1
	JCP	Makoto Sugawara	11,532	6.4
Turnout			181,217	60.52
	LDP hold		Swing

2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Kenkō Matsuki	127,166	52.4
	LDP	Tsutomu Takebe	112,690	46.4
	HRP	Kasamatsu Nagatoro	2,763	1.1
Turnout			242,619
	Democratic gain from LDP		Swing

2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Tsutomu Takebe	124,465	51.6
	DPJ	Kenkō Matsuki	101,835	42.2
	JCP	Makoto Sugawara	14,882	6.2
Turnout			241,182
	LDP hold		Swing

References

^ "北海道12区". go2senkyo. initial.inc. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
^ 『週刊新潮』 2009年6月18日号（新潮社）
^ 開票速報小選挙区：北海道 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
^ "北海道 - 候補者 - 2014衆院選：朝日新聞デジタル".

[1] "北海道12区". go2senkyo. initial.inc. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

[2] 『週刊新潮』 2009年6月18日号（新潮社）

[3] 開票速報小選挙区：北海道 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

[4] "北海道 - 候補者 - 2014衆院選：朝日新聞デジタル".

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v t e 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, 21 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, 33 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, 36 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, 30 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, 18 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, 33 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, 45 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, 17 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, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 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