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Hokkaido 3rd district
Japan House of Representatives constituency / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Hokkaidō 3rd District | |
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Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives | |
![]() Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts | |
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Prefecture | Hokkaidō |
Proportional District | Hokkaidō |
Electorate | 474,944 (2021)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1994 |
Seats | One |
Party | LDP |
Representative | Hirohisa Takagi |
Created from | Hokkaidō's 1st "medium-sized" district |
Municipalities | Sapporo's Shiroishi, Toyohira, and Kiyota Wards |
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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.