Hokkaido 2nd district

Hokkaido 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts
Sapporo-area detail
PrefectureHokkaidō
Proportional DistrictHokkaidō
Electorate460,828 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyCDP
RepresentativeKenko Matsuki
Created fromHokkaidō's 1st "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesSapporo's Kita Ward and Higashi Ward

Hokkaidō 2nd district (北海道[第]2区, Hokkai-dō [dai-]ni-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 Sapporo, the prefectural capital of Hokkaido and consists of the Higashi ("East") ward and most of the Kita ("North") ward.

The current Representative is Kenko Matsuki, member of the CDP. He won the seat in a special election in April 2021 and was reelected in the general election later that year. Matsuki was formerly a representative of the Hokkaido 12th district.

The Representative from the district from 2012 to 2020 was Liberal Democrat Takamori Yoshikawa. In 2020 he resigned due to accusations of accepting bribes during his time as Agriculture Minister.[2] Yoshikawa had lost the previous three elections to Democrat Wakio Mitsui. Yoshikawa had been the LDP candidate in the 2nd district since the initial election of 1996, but only won the district in 2000 (he won a Hokkaidō proportional seat on the LDP list in 1996 and 2005). Mitsui had contested the 3rd district for the NFP in 1996, but ranked third behind candidates from LDP and DPJ; in 2000, he ran only as a candidate on the DPJ proportional list and won a seat, before taking over the DPJ candidacy in the 2nd district in 2003.

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
Jun'ichi Osanai NFP 1996–1998 Had represented the pre-reform 1st district for Kōmeitō→NFP since 1993
Kōmeitō 1998-2000 Joined the New Peace Party (Heiwa Shintō) for a short period before it merged into Kōmeitō in 1998
Takamori Yoshikawa LDP 2000–2003 Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2003
Wakio Mitsui DPJ 2003–2012 Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2012
Takamori Yoshikawa LDP 2012–2020 Resigned
Vacant (December 2020 – April 2021)
Kenko Matsuki CDP 2021–

Recent results

2024[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Kenkō Matsuki 94,002 40.0 Decrease4.7
LDP Yūsuke Takahashi 76,835 32.7 Decrease7.2
Ishin Izumi Yamazaki 32,073 13.7 Decrease3.7
JCP Shiori Miyauchi 31,855 13.6
Turnout 52.61 Decrease3.38
CDP hold
2021[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Kenkō Matsuki 105,807 44.71 Increase0.97
LDP Yūsuke Takahashi 89,745 37.93
Ishin Izumi Yamazaki 41,076 17.36 Increase0.89
Majority 6.78 Decrease16.90
Turnout 52.60 Increase22.14
CDP hold
House of Representatives: 2021 Hokkaido 2nd district by-election[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Kenkō Matsuki 59,664 43.74
Independent Yoshiko Tsuruha 27,355 20.06
Ishin Izumi Yamazaki 22,459 16.47
Independent Takanori Nagatomo 15,738 11.54
The Party to Protect the People from NHK Tadayuki Saitō 5,630 4.13
Independent Satoru Kobayashi 5,552 4.07
Majority 23.68
Turnout 30.46 Decrease23.66
CDP gain from LDP Swing
2017[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takamori Yoshikawa 104,824 41.35 Increase4.55
Kibō no Tō Kenkō Matsuki 74,425 29.36 N/A
JCP Masatoshi Kanakura 52,626 20.76 Increase4.86
Ishin Yasufumi Owada 21,643 8.54 N/A
Majority 30,399 11.99 Decrease 2.2
Turnout 57.12
LDP hold Swing
2014[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 88,667 38.8 Increase3.8
Ishin Kenkō Matsuki (endorsed by People's Life Party) (won PR seat) 56,375 24.7 did not run in previous election
Independent Maki Ikeda 46,922 20.6 new
JCP Masatoshi Kanakura 36,277 15.9 new
2012[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 83,575 35.0 Increase4.2
Democratic Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by PNP) 55,520 23.2 Decrease31.0
Restoration Miho Takahashi (won PR seat) 47,139 19.7 new
JCP Hideko Ōta 28,183 11.8 new
Your Ryūji Sawada 24,605 10.3 new
2009[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by PNP) 165,267 54.2 +8.9
LDP Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 93,870 30.8 −14.5
JCP Chiharu Oka 27,580 9.0 new
Social Democratic Yumi Honda 14,311 4.7 new
Happiness Realization Motomi Yamamoto 3,782 1.2 new
2005[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Wakio Mitsui 129,357 45.3
LDP Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) (won PR seat) 127,031 44.5
JCP Masatoshi Kanakura 29,131 10.2
2003[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by SDP) 107,840 45.6
LDP Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by NCP) 83,573 35.3
JCP Ichirō Oda 24,259 10.3
Independent Yukiko Ishida (endorsed by Midori no Kaigi) 18,227 7.7
Independent Mitsunori Hirosaka 2,531 1.1
2000[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by NCP) 76,276 31.2
Democratic Yukiko Ishida 63,965 26.1
JCP Tomoko Kami 60,461 24.7
Independent Shizuhiro Matsuki 19,775 8.1
Social Democratic Takao Asano 15,722 6.4
Liberal League Tsutomu Fujita 8,456 3.5
Turnout 244,655 61.49
1996[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Frontier Jun’ichi Osanai 73,697 34.7
LDP Takamori Yoshikawa 63,524 29.9
JCP Yukishi Yamane 48,273 22.8
Liberal League Shizuhiro Matsuki 20,009 9.4
Youth Liberal Party Ken’ichi Sawada 6,653 3.1
Turnout 212,156 54.60

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