Hokkaido 8th district

Hokkaido 8th District
Hokkaido 8th District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	361,180 (2021)
Current constituency
Created	1996
Seats	One
Party	Constitutional Democratic
Representative	Seiji Osaka
Created from	Hokkaido 3rd district (1947–1993)
Subprefecture	Oshima and Hiyama

Hokkaidō 8th district (北海道[第]8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 of Hokkaidō and consists of Hokkaido's Hiyama and Oshima subprefectures.

History

From 1947 the district was known as the Hokkaido 3rd district and elected three members to the House. Under the 1994 reforms that came into effect at the 1996 general election, the district's boundaries were not changed but it was renamed to the 8th district and had its representation reduced to one. This reduction was offset by the introduction of the multi-member Hokkaido proportional representation block that elects eight members to represent the entire prefecture.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Yoshio Hachiro	DPJ	1996 – 2003	Switched to the Hokkaido 4th district.
Seiichi Kaneta	DPJ	2003 – 2009
Seiji Osaka	DPJ	2009 – 2012
Kazuo Maeda	LDP	2012 – 2014	won a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2014
Seiji Osaka	DPJ	2014 – 2017
Seiji Osaka	CDP	2017 –

Recent results

2024
Party		Candidate
	Constitutional Democratic	Seiji Osaka
	Liberal Democratic	Jun Mukōyama
	Communist	Katsumi Honma
Turnout

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutional Democratic	Seiji Osaka	112,857	52.68	2.7
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuo Maeda	101,379	47.32	2.7
Turnout				60.08	0.33
	Constitutional Democratic hold		Swing	2.7

2017
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutional Democratic	Seiji Osaka^[a]	125,771	55.4	8.1
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuo Maeda	101,243	44.6	0.4
Turnout			227,014	60.41	5.82
	Constitutional Democratic hold		Swing

2014^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Seiji Osaka	97,745	47.3
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuo Maeda [ja]	91,351	44.2
	Communist	Yuko Harada	17,465	8.5
Turnout			206,561	54.59	4.63
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing

2012^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuo Maeda [ja]	107,937	47.5
	Democratic	Seiji Osaka	77,402	34.1
	Tomorrow	Mika Kitade	25,793	11.4
	Communist	Kadai Takahashi	15,953	7.0
Turnout			227,085	59.22
	Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic		Swing

2009^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Seiji Osaka	171,114	62.6
Liberal Democratic	Keishiro Fukushima [ja]	58,046	21.2
Independent	Kenji Sato	40,090	14.7
Happiness Realization	Akira Nishino	4,075	1.5

2005^[6]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Seiichi Kaneta	134,963	49.8
Liberal Democratic	Kenji Sato	114,141	42.1
Communist	Kazuo Maekawa	21,891	8.1

Notes

^ The CDP is the successor party of the DP in this district, therefore the voting figures of the DP incumbent are used as a reference. Besides, Osaka run as an independent candidate because he announced so before the election. But he is able to be counted as a CDP candidate because he has joined CDP and was fielded by CDP after the election.

References

^ "北海道8区". go2senkyo. initial.inc. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
^ 開票速報小選挙区：北海道 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

[3] The CDP is the successor party of the DP in this district, therefore the voting figures of the DP incumbent are used as a reference. Besides, Osaka run as an independent candidate because he announced so before the election. But he is able to be counted as a CDP candidate because he has joined CDP and was fielded by CDP after the election.

[1] "北海道8区". go2senkyo. initial.inc. Retrieved 17 November 2021.

[2] 開票速報小選挙区：北海道 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 17 November 2021.

[4] "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

[5] "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

[6] "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

[7] "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

[1]

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