Hokkaido 7th district

Hokkaidō 7th district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaidō. In a 2002 redistricting and reapportionment, Hokkaidō lost one seat and what had been the Hokkaido 13th district in the 1996 and 2000 general elections was renamed the 7th district. The previous 7th district was split up: the largest part merged into the 6th district and the remaining areas merged into the 10th and 12th districts.

Hokkaidō 7th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	253,134 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1996, renamed in 2003
Seats	One
Party	Liberal Democratic
Representative	Yoshitaka Itō (2009-present)
Created from	Hokkaidō 5th district (1947–1993)
Municipalities	Kushiro and Nemuro Subprefectures

Electorate

The 7th district is located in Eastern Hokkaidō and covers the Kushiro and Nemuro subprefectures, in the Japanese viewpoint theoretically including the "Northern Territories (Southern Kuriles) administered by the Russian Federation. As of 2009, 278,402 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[2]

The district has been represented by Liberal Democrat Yoshitaka Itō since 2009. In the 2009 general election, the 7th district was the only district countrywide where a Democratic incumbent lost their seat and the only district in Hokkaidō won by the LDP. In the previous election of 2005 when the LDP won a landslide victory, it was one of few districts where a Democrat could unseat a Liberal Democratic incumbent.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Hokkaidō 13th district
Naoto Kitamura [ja]		NFP	1996–1997	Left NFP in 1997 and returned to the LDP
		LDP	1997–2003
Hokkaidō 7th district
Naoto Kitamura		LDP	2003–2005	Failed reelection in the Hokkaidō PR block[3]
Hiroko Nakano		DPJ	2005–2009	Reelected in the Hokkaidō PR block[4]
Yoshitaka Itō		LDP	2009–	Incumbent

Election results

2024

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takako Suzuki
	CDP	Naoko Shinoda
Turnout

2021^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Itō (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Kōmeitō)	80,797	58.01	8.6
	CDP	Naoko Shinoda	45,563	32.71
	JCP	Akemi Ishikawa	12,913	9.27	24.1
Turnout				56.19	0.02

2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Itō (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Kōmeitō)	95,200	66.6	20.7
	JCP	Akemi Ishikawa	47,740	33.4	25.0
Turnout				56.17	3.74

2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Itō (Endorsed by Kōmeitō)	72,281	45.88	2.3
	Democratic	Takako Suzuki (elected by PR)	72,056	45.73
	JCP	Akemi Ishikawa	13,218	8.39	2.6

2012^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Itō (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Kōmeitō)	72,945	47.2
	NP-Daichi	Takako Suzuki (endorsed by Tomorrow Party)	51,051	33.1
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano (PR block incumbent) (Endorsed by PNP)	21,513	13.9
	JCP	Ryōko Sasaki	8,918	5.8

2009^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Itō (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	100,150	49.7
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano (Incumbent) (Elected to PR block) (Endorsed by PNP)	99,236	49.2
	Happiness Realization	Sachiko Kanenari	2,131	1.1
Turnout			205,413	73.91

2005^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano	95,473	48.3
	LDP	Naoto Kitamura [ja] (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Kōmeitō)	86,924	43.9
	JCP	Kazushige Murakami	15,438	7.8
Turnout			204,442	71.37

2003^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Naoto Kitamura [ja] (Incumbent) (Endorsed by NCP)	85,585	49.8
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano (elected by PR) (Endorsed by SDP)	72,508	42.2
	JCP	Yasuhiko Yagi	13,617	7.9
Turnout			177,431	61.52

2000: Hokkaidō 13th district^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Naoto Kitamura [ja] (Incumbent) (Endorsed by NCP)	86,567	46.9
	Democratic	Hiroko Nakano	55,732	30.2
	Liberal	Toshiyuki Wanibuchi	25,169	13.6
	JCP	Tadashi Shibutani[11]	16,055	8.7
	Others	Shin'ichi Katō	1,071	0.6

1996: Hokkaidō 13th district^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Naoto Kitamura [ja] (Incumbent)	83,490	42.8
	LDP	Muneo Suzuki (elected by PR)	55,491	28.4
	Democratic	Atsushi Okada	41,565	21.3
	JCP	Akemi Ishikawa	14,736	7.5
Turnout			198,436	68.83

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