Hokkaido 7th district (1996–2003)

Hokkaido 7th District
Former constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Former constituency
Created	1996
Abolished	2003
Seats	One
Created from	Hokkaido 2nd district (1947–1993)
Replaced by	Hokkaido 6th, 10th, and 12th districts
Subprefectures	Kamikawa, Rumoi and Sōya Subprefectures

The Hokkaidō 7th district (北海道第7区, Hokkaidō Dai Nana-ku) was a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It was located in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaidō and represented the subprefectures of Kamikawa, Rumoi and Sōya. Its only representative was Liberal Democratic Party member Eiko Kaneta, who was elected to the multi-member 2nd district (the predecessor of the 7th district) in 1993

The district was abolished in a 2002 redistricting and reapportionment, with Kamikawa becoming part of the 6th district, Rumoi becoming part of the 10th district, and Sōya becoming part of the 12th district. The then-13th district was renamed to become the current 7th district. As the 6th district was represented by fellow Liberal Democratic member Hiroshi Imazu, Kaneta contested the Hokkaido proportional representation block in the 2003 general election.

List of representatives[edit]

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Hokkaidō 7th district
Eikō Kaneta [ja]		LDP	1996–2003	Re-elected in the Hokkaidō PR block in 2003

Election results[edit]

2000: Hokkaidō 7th district^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democratic	Eikō Kaneta [ja] (Incumbent)	94,290	49.2
Democratic	Yasuki Sakuraba [ja]	85,553	44.6
Communist	Masatada Mashiko	11,889	6.2

1996: Hokkaidō 7th district
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Eikō Kaneta [ja]	65,955	34.4
	Democratic	Yasuki Sakuraba [ja]	62,549	32.6
	New Frontier	Yoshiteru Uekusa [ja]	52,300	27.2
	Communist	Masatada Mashiko	11,149	5.8
Turnout			196,227	71.46

References[edit]

^ "北海道7区選挙結果" [Hokkaidō 7th district election results] (in Japanese). Retrieved 26 May 2016.

v t e Hokkaidō's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13) PR Hokkaidō PR block House of Councillors At-large (13→12 Representatives (PR block: 9→8), 4→6 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 (22→23 Representatives, 8→4 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946) 1 2 (23 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 4 5 (20 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (16 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts era (1902–1917), in Hokkaidō FPTP single-member districts Sapporo city (ku) Hakodate city (ku) Otaru city (ku) subprefectures 1 subprefectures 2 subprefectures 3 (3→6 Representatives)

v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 23 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 32 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 33 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 25 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 19 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 32 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 47 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4