Hokkaido's Diet electoral districts

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Hokkaido's House of Representatives districts since 2017^[1]

All seats

Sapporo seats

Hokkaido currently sends 17 elected members to the Diet of Japan, 12 to the House of Representatives and 5 to the House of Councillors. The prefecture will send 6 Councillors starting 2019.

House of Representatives[edit]

The current House of Representatives Hokkaido delegation consists of 9 members of the LDP, 8 CDP, 2 Komeito and 1 DPFP.

District seats[edit]

District	Representative	Party	Incumbency
1st	Daiki Michishita (CD-Nishi-ku, Sapporo)	CDP	1 November 2017 – present
2nd	Takamori Yoshikawa (LD-Kita-ku, Sapporo)	LDP	26 December 2012 – present
3rd	Satoshi Arai (CD-Toyohira-ku, Sapporo)	CDP	1 November 2017 – present
4th	Hiroyuki Nakamura (LD-Otaru)	LDP	26 December 2012 – present
5th	Yoshiaki Wada (LD-Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo)	LDP	27 April 2016 – present
6th	Takahiro Sasaki (CD-Asahikawa)	CDP	15 December 2014 – present
7th	Yoshitaka Itō (LD-Kushiro)	LDP	31 August 2009 – present
8th	Seiji Ōsaka (CD-Hakodate)	CDP	15 December 2014 – present
9th	Manabu Horii (LD-Muroran)	LDP	26 December 2012 – present
10th	Hisashi Inatsu (K-Iwamizawa)	Komeito	31 August 2009 – present
11th	Kaori Ishikawa (CD-Obihiro)	CDP	1 November 2017 – present
12th	Arata Takebe (LD-Kitami)	LDP	26 December 2012 – present

PR seats[edit]

Representative	Party	District contested	Incumbency
Kōichi Watanabe (LD-Iwamizawa)	LDP	None	26 December 2012 – present
Takako Suzuki (LD-Kushiro)		None	3 June 2013 – present
Toshimitsu Funahashi (LD-Chuo-ku, Sapporo)		Hokkaido-1st	1 November 2017 – present
Hiroshi Kamiya (CD-Iwamizawa)	CDP	Hokkaido-10th	1 November 2017 – present
Maki Ikeda (CD-Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo)		Hokkaido-5th	1 November 2017 – present
Hiranao Honda (CD-Otaru)		Hokkaido-4th	1 November 2017 – present
Tatsumaru Yamaoka (D-Tomakomai)	DPFP	Hokkaido-9th	1 November 2017 – present
Hidemichi Satō (K-Chuo-ku, Sapporo)	Komeito	None	26 December 2012 – present

House of Councillors[edit]

The current House of Councillors Hokkaido delegation consists of 2 members of the CDP, 2 LDP and 1 DPFP. The members are elected from the Hokkaido at-large district.

Party	Councillors	Term ends	Incumbency
CDP	Katsuya Ogawa	2019	23 July 1995 – present
CDP	Yoshio Hachiro	2022	26 July 2016 – present
DPFP	Eri Tokunaga	2022	26 July 2010 – present
LDP	Chuichi Date	2019	2001 – present
LDP	Gaku Hasegawa	2022	26 July 2010 – present

References[edit]

^ "北海道ほっかいどう" (PDF). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Retrieved 3 February 2018.

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, 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