Hokkaido 3rd district

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
Electorate474,944 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyCDP
RepresentativeYutaka Arai
Created fromHokkaidō's 1st "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesSapporo's Shiroishi, Toyohira, and Kiyota Wards

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 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.

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 – 2021 Retired in 2021
Hirohisa Takagi LDP 2021 – 2024 Also lost in the PR block
Yutaka Arai CDP 2024 –

Recent results

2024[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Yutaka Arai 100,136 41.7 Decrease 3.0
LDP Hirohisa Takagi 83,089 34.6 Decrease 8.4
JCP Richiko Itō 22,915 9.6 new
Ishin Yoshitaka Torikoshi 21,802 9.1 Decrease 3.2
Independent Kenji Masuda 11,972 5.0 new
Turnout 53.62 Decrease2.62
CDP gain from LDP
2021[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 116,917 44,66 Decrease0.98
CDP Yutaka Arai (won PR seat) 112,535 42.99 Decrease11.37
Ishin Yasufumi Kowada 32,340 12.35
Turnout 56.24 Decrease0.88
LDP gain from CDP Swing Increase5.25
2017[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Satoshi Arai 141,680 54.36 Increase17.90
LDP Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō and NPD) 118,961 45.64 Increase6.17
Majority 22,719 8.72
Turnout 57.12 Increase4.01
CDP gain from LDP Swing Increase5.87
2014[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 92,649 39.47 Increase2.59
Democratic Satoshi Arai (won PR seat) 85,591 36.46 Increase9.50
JCP Hiroko Yoshioka 30,271 12.90 Increase4.68
Ishin Yasufumi Kowada 26,211 11.17 Decrease3.82
Turnout 53.11 Decrease1.97
2012[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP 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
NP-Daichi Junko Machikawa (endorsed by TPJ) 31,024 12.95 new
JCP Tsuneto Mori 19,705 8.22 new
Turnout 55.08 Decrease15.83
2009[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Satoshi Arai (endorsed by PNP) 186,081 60.9
LDP Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 112,844 36.9
Happiness Realization Yoshinori Moriyama 6,723 2.2
Turnout 305,648 70.91 Increase3.26
2005[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō 138,765 48.4
Democratic Satoshi Arai (won PR seat) 125,445 43.7
JCP Ryūji Kawabe 22,581 7.9
Turnout 286,791 67.65
2003[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Satoshi Arai (endorsed by SDP) 114,131 46.8
LDP Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by NCP) (won PR seat) 111,252 45.6
JCP Ryūji Kawabe 18,537 7.6
Turnout 243,920 58.48
2000[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Satoshi Arai 96,653 40.5
LDP Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by NCP) 90,694 38.0
JCP Kenji Kodama (won PR seat) 41,499 17.4
Liberal League Mitsuhiro Yokoyama 9,909 4.2
Turnout 238,755 59.92
1996[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Gaku Ishizaki 54,275 26.3
Democratic Satoshi Arai (endorsed by NPS) 51,479 25.0
New Frontier Wakio Mitsui 50,902 24.7
JCP Kenji Kodama (won PR seat) 40,623 19.7
New Socialist Tomoka Uchimoto 9,010 4.4

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