Hokkaido 6th district

Hokkaido 6th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaido Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	415,008 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Kuniyoshi Azuma
Created from	Hokkaido's 2nd "medium-sized" district
Subprefecture	Kamikawa

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

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

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