Hokkaidō 3rd District | |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Constituency Link: | Hokkaidō 3rd district |
Parl Name: | Japanese House of Representatives |
District Label: | Prefecture |
District: | Hokkaidō |
Region Label: | Proportional District |
Region: | Hokkaidō |
Electorate: | 474,944 (2021)[1] |
Year: | 1994 |
Members Label: | Representative |
Members: | Yutaka Arai |
Seats: | One |
Elects Howmany: | One |
Party Label: | Party |
Party: | CDP |
Blank1 Name: | Municipalities |
Blank1 Info: | Sapporo's Shiroishi, Toyohira, and Kiyota Wards |
is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, and consists of the wards of Toyohira, and Kiyota and most of Shiroishi ward.
The current representative from the district is Hirohisa Takagi of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Before the introduction of the current first-past-the-post/proportional representation parallel electoral system for the House of Representatives in the 1990s, Sapporo city had been part of the SNTV six-member 1st district.
Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |||
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Gaku Ishizaki | bgcolor= | LDP | 1996 – 2000 | |||
Satoshi Arai | bgcolor= | DPJ | 2000 – 2005 | Won in the PR block | ||
Gaku Ishizaki | bgcolor= | LDP | 2005 – 2009 | |||
Satoshi Arai | bgcolor= | DPJ | 2009 – 2012 | Won in the PR block | ||
Hirohisa Takagi | bgcolor= | LDP | 2012 – 2017 | Also lost in the PR block | ||
Satoshi Arai | bgcolor= | CDP | 2017 – 2021 | Retired in 2021 | ||
Hirohisa Takagi | bgcolor= | LDP | 2021 – 2024 | Also lost in the PR block | ||
Yutaka Arai | bgcolor= | CDP | 2024 – |