Created 1994 Representative Hirohisa Takagi | Proportional District Hokkaido Seats One | |
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Created from Hokkaido's 1st "medium-sized" district Region Hokkaido proportional representation block | ||
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 the prefecture (-dō) of Hokkaidō and consists of three wards (-ku) of the prefectural capital, the city (-shi) of Sapporo: Shiroishi, Toyohira, and Kiyota.
The current Representative from the district since 2012 is Liberal Democrat Hirohisa Takagi.
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.
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