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Hokkaido 6th district

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.

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

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

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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

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2024[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kuniyoshi Azuma 100,694 46.9   8.6
CDP Masahito Nishikawa 94,193 43.9   3.61
JCP Kazuhito Ogyō 19,909 9.3 new
Majority 6,501 3  12.21
Turnout 214,796 55.30   1.56
Registered electors 399,833   3.66
LDP hold
2021[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kuniyoshi Azuma 128,670 55.50  9.99
CDP Masahito Nishikawa 93,403 40.29  14.20
Anti-NHK Tadayuki Saitō 5,630 4.13
Majority 15.21
Turnout 56.86  2.62
LDP gain from CDP Swing 12.1
2017
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Takahiro Sasaki 136,312 54.49  9.19
LDP Hiroshi Imazu 113,851 45.51  1.41
CDP hold Swing  9.19
2014[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 104,595 45.3  16.4
LDP Hiroshi Imazu (won PR seat) 101,748 44.1  1.2
JCP Kazutoshi Ogyu 24,656 10.6  2.7
Democratic gain from LDP Swing  7.6
2012[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hiroshi Imazu 103,064 42.9  5.1
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 69,272 28.9  26.5
Your Takanobu Azumi 48,736 20.3 N/A
JCP Kazutoshi Ogyu 18,915 7.9  2.3
LDP gain from Democratic Swing  15.8
2009[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 175,879 55.4  8.7
LDP Hiroshi Imazu 119,964 37.8  8.0
JCP Kazutoshi Ogyu 17,884 5.6  2.0
Happiness Realization Shinichi Takeda 3.554 1.1 N/A
Democratic hold Swing  8.4
2005[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 143,860 46.7
LDP Hideyuki Kaneda 141,099 45.8
JCP Hachiro Tanabe 23,343 7.6
Democratic gain from LDP Swing
2003[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hiroshi Imazu 112,270 40.16
Democratic Takahiro Sasaki 111,656 39.94
Independent Masahito Nishikawa 37,518 13.42
JCP Yoshinori Nakano 18,144 6.49
LDP gain from Democratic Swing

References

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  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. ^ "北海道6区 - 第50回衆議院議員選挙（衆議院議員総選挙）2024年10月27日投票 ｜ 選挙ドットコム". 選挙ドットコム (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  6. ^ 開票速報 小選挙区：北海道 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  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.
  10. ^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  11. ^ "go2senkyo.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-09-11.

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