Hokkaido 3rd district

Hokkaidō 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts
Sapporo-area detail
PrefectureHokkaidō
Proportional DistrictHokkaidō
Electorate474,944 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyLDP
RepresentativeHirohisa Takagi
Created fromHokkaidō's 1st "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesSapporo's Shiroishi, Toyohira, and Kiyota Wards

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 Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, and consists of the wards of Toyohira, and Kiyota and most of Shiroishi ward.

The current representative from the district is Hirohisa Takagi of the Liberal Democratic Party.

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.

  1. ^ "北海道2区". go2senkyo. initial.inc. Retrieved 25 May 2023.