Hokkaido 3rd district

Hokkaidō 3rd district (北海道[第]3区, Hokkai-dō [dai-]san-ku) 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 three wards (-ku) of the prefectural capital, the city (-shi) of Sapporo: Shiroishi, Toyohira, and Kiyota.

Hokkaidō 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts
Sapporo-area detail
PrefectureHokkaidō
Proportional DistrictHokkaidō
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyCDP
RepresentativeSatoshi Arai
Created fromHokkaidō's 1st "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesSapporo's Shiroishi, Toyohira, and Kiyota Wards

The current representative from the district is Satoshi Arai of the Constitutional 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.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Gaku Ishizaki LDP 1996–2000
Satoshi Arai DPJ 2000–2005 Won in the PR block
Gaku Ishizaki LDP 2005–2009 Also lost in the PR block
Satoshi Arai DPJ 2009–2012 Won in the PR block
Hirohisa Takagi LDP 2012–2017 Also lost in the PR block
Satoshi Arai CDP 2017– Incumbent

Recent results
2017[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Constitutional Democratic Satoshi Arai 141,680 54.36 17.90
Liberal Democratic Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō and NPD) 118,961 45.64 6.17
Majority 22,719 8.72
Turnout 57.12 4.01
Constitutional Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing 5.87
2014[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 92,649 39.47 2.59
Democratic Satoshi Arai (won PR seat) 85,591 36.46 9.50
Communist Hiroko Yoshioka 30,271 12.90 4.68
Innovation Yasufumi Kowada 26,211 11.17 3.82
Turnout 53.11 1.97
2012[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 88,360 36.88
Democratic Satoshi Arai (endorsed by PNP) (won PR seat) 64,599 26.96
Restoration Yasufumi Kowada (endorsed by Your Party) 35,907 14.99 new
New Party Daichi Junko Machikawa (endorsed by TPJ) 31,024 12.95 new
Communist Tsuneto Mori 19,705 8.22 new
Turnout 55.08 15.83
2009[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Satoshi Arai (endorsed by PNP) 186,081 60.9
Liberal Democratic Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 112,844 36.9
Happiness Realization Yoshinori Moriyama 6,723 2.2
Turnout 305,648 70.91 3.26
2005[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō 138,765 48.4
Democratic Satoshi Arai (won PR seat) 125,445 43.7
Communist Ryūji Kawabe 22,581 7.9
Turnout 286,791 67.65
2003[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Satoshi Arai (endorsed by SDP) 114,131 46.8
Liberal Democratic Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by NCP) (won PR seat) 111,252 45.6
Communist Ryūji Kawabe 18,537 7.6
Turnout 243,920 58.48
2000[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Satoshi Arai 96,653 40.5
Liberal Democratic Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by NCP) 90,694 38.0
Communist Kenji Kodama (won PR seat) 41,499 17.4
Liberal League Mitsuhiro Yokoyama 9,909 4.2
Turnout 238,755 59.92
1996[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Gaku Ishizaki 54,275 26.3
Democratic Satoshi Arai (endorsed by NPS) 51,479 25.0
New Frontier Wakio Mitsui 50,902 24.7
Communist Kenji Kodama (won PR seat) 40,623 19.7
New Socialist Tomoka Uchimoto 9,010 4.4

References
  1. 総選挙2017>小選挙区開票速報：北海道（定数12） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  2. 総選挙2014>小選挙区開票速報：北海道（定数12）. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  3. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　北海道. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  4. "Data Sets" (in Japanese). Kokkai Gekijo. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  5. "Data Sets" (in Japanese). Kokkai Gekijo. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
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