Hokkaido 6th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureHokkaido
Proportional DistrictHokkaido
Electorate415,008 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
SeatsOne
PartyLDP
RepresentativeKuniyoshi Azuma
Created fromHokkaido's 2nd "medium-sized" district
SubprefectureKamikawa

Hokkaidō 6th district (北海道[第]6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 (-dō) of Hokkaidō and consists of Hokkaido's Kamikawa Subprefecture.

The CDP lost the seat in the 2021 elections by large margins. The CDP candidate was Masahito Nishikawa the former mayor of Asahikawa, by far the biggest city in the constituency. After the death of a young girl caused by bullying[2] and the city being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic[3] Nishikawa's decision to go into national politics faced heavy criticism and he was seen as avoiding responsibility.[4]

List of representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Hidenori Sasaki DPJ 1996 – 2003
Hiroshi Imazu LDP 2003 – 2005
Takahiro Sasaki DPJ 2005 – 2012
Hiroshi Imazu LDP 2012 – 2014
Takahiro Sasaki DPJ 2014 – 2016
DP 2016 – 2017
CDP 2017 – 2021
Kuniyoshi Azuma LDP 2021 –

Recent results

2021[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Kuniyoshi Azuma 128,670 55.50 Increase9.99
CDP Masahito Nishikawa 93,403 40.29 Decrease14.20
Anti-NHK Tadayuki Saitō 5,630 4.13
Majority 15.21
Turnout 56.86 Decrease2.62
Liberal Democratic gain from CDP Swing 12.1
2017
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Takahiro Sasaki 136,312 54.49 Increase9.19
Liberal Democratic Hiroshi Imazu 113,851 45.51 Increase1.41
CDP hold Swing Increase9.19
2014[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 104,595 45.3 Increase16.4
Liberal Democratic Hiroshi Imazu (won PR seat) 101,748 44.1 Increase1.2
Communist Kazutoshi Ogyu 24,656 10.6 Increase2.7
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing Increase7.6
2012[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Hiroshi Imazu 103,064 42.9 Increase5.1
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 69,272 28.9 Decrease26.5
Your Takanobu Azumi 48,736 20.3 N/A
Communist Kazutoshi Ogyu 18,915 7.9 Increase2.3
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic Swing Increase15.8
2009[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 175,879 55.4 Increase8.7
Liberal Democratic Hiroshi Imazu 119,964 37.8 Decrease8.0
Communist Kazutoshi Ogyu 17,884 5.6 Decrease2.0
Happiness Realization Shinichi Takeda 3.554 1.1 N/A
Democratic hold Swing Increase8.4
2005[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 143,860 46.7
Liberal Democratic Hideyuki Kaneda 141,099 45.8
Communist Hachiro Tanabe 23,343 7.6
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing

References

  1. ↑ "北海道6区". go2senkyo. initial.inc. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. ↑ YAMAGUCHI, MARI (6 May 2021). "Girl's death in Japan prompts probe of alleged bullying". abc News. Associated Press.
  3. ↑ "COVID-19 clusters break out in Japan's coldest city as winter closes in". Reuters). 10 December 2020.
  4. ↑ "旭川女子中学生凍死事件 衆院選出馬表明の旭川市長に対し、小川泰平氏が「責任放棄」と苦言/ライフ/社会総合/デイリースポーツ online". archive.md. 2021-08-29. Archived from the original on 2021-08-29. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
  5. ↑ 開票速報 小選挙区：北海道 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  7. ↑ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  8. ↑ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  9. ↑ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.

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