Hokkaido 1st district

Hokkaidō 1st district (北海道[第]1区, Hokkaidō-[dai-]ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in Sapporo, the prefectural capital of Hokkaido. In 2017, its border were redrawn and it now consists of Sapporo's Chūō ("Centre") and Minami ("South") wards, a portion of Nishi ("West") ward as well as a small part of Kita ("North") ward.

Hokkaidō 1st District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts
Sapporo-area detail
Prefecture	Hokkaidō
Proportional District	Hokkaidō
Electorate	450,946 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Constitutional Democratic Party
Representative	Daiki Michishita
Created from	Hokkaidō's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Sapporo's Chūō Ward, Minami Ward, and portions of other wards

Since 2017, the district has been represented by Daiki Michishita of the CDP. This seat was almost continuously held by former Hokkaidō governor Takahiro Yokomichi between 1996 and 2017, except for a brief period from 2012 to 2014. Yokomichi was the leader of the ex-Socialist faction within the Democratic Party and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2009 to 2012. Before the 1994 House of Representatives electoral reform, Sapporo city had been part of the six-member 1st district that covered Ishikari and Shiribetsu subprefectures. Yokomichi and previously his father Setsuo had represented the pre-reform multi-member 1st district for the Socialists from 1952 until the 1983 gubernatorial election, interrupted by two years after Setsuo Yokomichi's death in 1967. In the 2009 general election, Yokomichi's main challenger was LDP's Gaku Hasegawa, who lost the race and also failed to win a proportional seat, but went on to become Councillor for Hokkaidō in 2010. In 2005, Muneo Suzuki's regionalist New Party Daichi nominated ski jumper Masahiro Akimoto in the district. In 2000, former Olympic weightlifter and current Hokkaidō assemblyman Nobuyuki Hatta ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for Ichirō Ozawa's Liberal Party. In 2012, Olympic speed skater Hiroyasu Shimizu ran for the district as a member of the New Party Daichi – True Democrats. Yokomichi lost the seat in the 2012 election to Toshimitsu Funahashi [ja] of the LDP but regained it in 2014. He stepped down in 2017.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Takahiro Yokomichi		DPJ	1996 – 2012
Toshimitsu Funahashi [ja]		LDP	2012 – 2014
Takahiro Yokomichi		DPJ	2014 – 2016
		DP	2016 – 2017
Daiki Michishita		CDP	2017 –	Incumbent

Election results

2024^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Daiki Michishita	108,394	43.3	2.0
	LDP	Takahiro Katō	80,133	32.0	9.0
	JCP	Naoko Chiba	21,451	8.6	New
	Sanseitō	Yoshihito Tanaka	20,097	8.0	New
	Ishin	Satoru Kobayashi	20,000	8.0	5.7
Turnout				56.48	2.65
	CDP hold

2021^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Daiki Michishita	118,286	45.33	8.15
	LDP	Toshimitsu Funahashi	106,985	41.00	5.52
	Ishin	Satoru Kobayashi	35,652	13.66
Majority				4.33	2.64
Turnout				59.13	1.14
	CDP hold		Swing	1.34

2017^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Daiki Michishita[note 1]	139,110	53.48	10.01
	LDP	Toshimitsu Funahashi (endorsed by Kōmeitō and NPD)	120,987	46.52	6.97
Majority			18,123	6.96	2.74
Turnout				60.27	4.04
	CDP hold		Swing	1.52

2014^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi	116,398	43.47	14.58
	LDP	Toshimitsu Funahashi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	105,918	39.55	8.88
	JCP	Hiroyuki Norota	32,031	11.96	4.98
	Independent	Yoshihiro Īda	13,444	5.02	N/A
Majority			10,480	3.92	1.74
Turnout				56.23	2.48
	Democratic gain from LDP		Swing	2.85

2012^[6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Toshimitsu Funahashi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	86,034	31.07
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi (endorsed by PNP) (elected by PR)	79,994	28.89
	Restoration	Tomokazu Ōtake (endorsed by Your Party)	46,681	16.86
	NP-Daichi	Hiroyasu Shimizu (endorsed by TPJ)	44,845	16.20
	JCP	Hiroyuki Norota	19,340	6.98

2009^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi (endorsed by PNP)	183,216	51.9
	LDP	Gaku Hasegawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	124,343	36.8
	JCP	Hideaki Matsui	25,803	7.6
	Happiness Realization	Kazue Takamoto	4,083	1.2
Turnout			342,870	72.1

2005^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi	143,564	45.7
	LDP	Takayuki Mishina	128,166	40.8
	JCP	Hiroko Yokoyama	25,481	8.1
	NP-Daichi	Masahiro Akimoto	16,698	5.3
Turnout			319,360	69.3

2003^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi (endorsed by SDP)	143,907	55.4
	LDP	Takayuki Mishina	89,758	34.6
	JCP	Hiroko Yokoyama	25,995	10.0
Turnout			266,485	59.1

2000^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi	132,514	50.7
	LDP	Yoshitaka Kimoto (endorsed by NCP)	76,047	29.1
	JCP	Teizō Komura	32,267	12.3
	Liberal	Nobuyuki Hatta	20,554	7.9

1996^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takahiro Yokomichi	102,577	45.9
	LDP	Eiichi Masugi	56,265	25.2
	JCP	Teizō Komura	32,703	14.6
	Independent	Gaku Hasegawa	32,019	14.3
Turnout			233,995	56.7

Footnotes

1. The CDP is the successor party of the DP in this district, therefore the voting figures of the DP incumbent are used as a reference.

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