Hokkaido 6th district explained

Hokkaido 6th District
Type:Parliamentary
Constituency Link:Hokkaido 6th district
Parl Name:Japanese House of Representatives
District Label:Prefecture
District:Hokkaido
Region Label:Proportional District
Region:Hokkaido
Electorate:415,008 (2021)[1]
Members Label:Representative
Members:Kuniyoshi Azuma
Seats:One
Elects Howmany:One
Party Label:Party
Party:LDP
Blank1 Name:Subprefecture
Blank1 Info:Kamikawa

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

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Hidenori Sasakibgcolor= DPJ1996 – 2003
Hiroshi Imazubgcolor= LDP2003 – 2005
Takahiro Sasakibgcolor= DPJ2005 – 2012
Hiroshi Imazubgcolor= LDP2012 – 2014
Takahiro Sasakibgcolor= DPJ2014 – 2016
bgcolor= DP2016 – 2017
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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 北海道6区 . go2senkyo . initial.inc . 14 November 2021.
  2. News: YAMAGUCHI . MARI . Girl's death in Japan prompts probe of alleged bullying . Associated Press . abc News . 6 May 2021.
  3. News: COVID-19 clusters break out in Japan's coldest city as winter closes in . Reuters) . 10 December 2020.
  4. Web site: 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. 2021-11-14. 2021-08-29. https://archive.today/20210829133719/https://www.daily.co.jp/society/life/2021/08/27/0014628575.shtml. live.