Hokkaido 6th district

Hokkaido 6th District
Hokkaido 6th District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	415,008 (2021)
Current constituency
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Kuniyoshi Azuma
Created from	Hokkaido's 2nd "medium-sized" district
Subprefecture	Kamikawa

Hokkaidō 6th district (北海道[第]6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 (-dō) of Hokkaidō and consists of Hokkaido's Kamikawa Subprefecture.

The CDP lost the seat in the 2021 elections by large margins. The CDP candidate was Masahito Nishikawa the former mayor of Asahikawa, by far the biggest city in the constituency. After the death of a young girl caused by bullying^[2] and the city being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic^[3] Nishikawa's decision to go into national politics faced heavy criticism and he was seen as avoiding responsibility.^[4]

List of representatives

Representative		Dates
Hidenori Sasaki	DPJ	1996 – 2003
Hiroshi Imazu	LDP	2003 – 2005
Takahiro Sasaki	DPJ	2005 – 2012
Hiroshi Imazu	LDP	2012 – 2014
Takahiro Sasaki	DPJ	2014 – 2016
	DP	2016 – 2017
	CDP	2017 – 2021
Kuniyoshi Azuma	LDP	2021 –

Recent results

2024^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kuniyoshi Azuma	100,694	46.9	8.6
	CDP	Masahito Nishikawa	94,193	43.9	3.61
	JCP	Kazuhito Ogyō	19,909	9.3	new
Majority			6,501	3	12.21
Turnout			214,796	55.30	1.56
Registered electors			399,833		3.66
	LDP hold

2021^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kuniyoshi Azuma	128,670	55.50	9.99
	CDP	Masahito Nishikawa	93,403	40.29	14.20
	Anti-NHK	Tadayuki Saitō	5,630	4.13
Majority				15.21
Turnout				56.86	2.62
	LDP gain from CDP		Swing	12.1

2017
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
CDP	Takahiro Sasaki	136,312	54.49	9.19
LDP	Hiroshi Imazu	113,851	45.51	1.41
CDP hold		Swing	9.19

2014^[7]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Democratic	Takahiro Sasaki	104,595	45.3	16.4
LDP	Hiroshi Imazu (won PR seat)	101,748	44.1	1.2
JCP	Kazutoshi Ogyu	24,656	10.6	2.7
Democratic gain from LDP		Swing	7.6

2012^[8]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
LDP	Hiroshi Imazu	103,064	42.9	5.1
Democratic	Takahiro Sasaki	69,272	28.9	26.5
Your	Takanobu Azumi	48,736	20.3	N/A
JCP	Kazutoshi Ogyu	18,915	7.9	2.3
LDP gain from Democratic		Swing	15.8

2009^[9]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Democratic	Takahiro Sasaki	175,879	55.4	8.7
LDP	Hiroshi Imazu	119,964	37.8	8.0
JCP	Kazutoshi Ogyu	17,884	5.6	2.0
Happiness Realization	Shinichi Takeda	3.554	1.1	N/A
Democratic hold		Swing	8.4

2005^[10]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Takahiro Sasaki	143,860	46.7
LDP	Hideyuki Kaneda	141,099	45.8
JCP	Hachiro Tanabe	23,343	7.6
Democratic gain from LDP		Swing

2003^[11]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Hiroshi Imazu	112,270	40.16
Democratic	Takahiro Sasaki	111,656	39.94
Independent	Masahito Nishikawa	37,518	13.42
JCP	Yoshinori Nakano	18,144	6.49
LDP gain from Democratic		Swing

References

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^ YAMAGUCHI, MARI (6 May 2021). "Girl's death in Japan prompts probe of alleged bullying". abc News. Associated Press.
^ "COVID-19 clusters break out in Japan's coldest city as winter closes in". Reuters). 10 December 2020.
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[2] YAMAGUCHI, MARI (6 May 2021). "Girl's death in Japan prompts probe of alleged bullying". abc News. Associated Press.

[3] "COVID-19 clusters break out in Japan's coldest city as winter closes in". Reuters). 10 December 2020.

[4] "旭川女子中学生凍死事件衆院選出馬表明の旭川市長に対し、小川泰平氏が「責任放棄」と苦言/ライフ/社会総合/デイリースポーツ online". archive.md. 2021-08-29. Archived from the original on 2021-08-29. Retrieved 2021-11-14.

[5] "北海道6区 - 第50回衆議院議員選挙（衆議院議員総選挙）2024年10月27日投票｜選挙ドットコム". 選挙ドットコム (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-11-02.

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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