2016 Hokkaido 5th district by-election

2016 Hokkaido 5th district by-election
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Hokkaido 5th district
Turnout57.63%
 
Nominee Yoshiaki Wada Maki Ikeda
Party LDP Independent
Alliance Komeito / PJK / NPD Democratic / JCP / SDP / PLP
Popular vote 135,842 123,517
Percentage 52.38% 47.62%
Representative before election

Nobutaka Machimura
LDP

Elected Representative

Yoshiaki Wada
LDP

A by-election for the Hokkaido-5th seat in the Japanese House of Representatives was held on 24 April 2016, coinciding with another by-election in Kyoto. The by-election was triggered by the death of the sitting member, former Speaker of the House and Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura from cerebral infarction in Osaka on 1 June 2015.[1] Machimura, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, was a long-serving representative for the district, holding the seat almost continuously between 1996 and 2015 (except for a brief period between 2009 and 2010). The seat has been considered safe for the LDP, with Machimura retaining it on a 14.1% margin in the 2014 general election.

In a result that has been considered a boost for the LDP ahead of the mid-year House of Councillors election, Machimura's son-in-law Yoshiaki Wada won the election with 52.4% of the vote, retaining the seat for the LDP.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "Former Foreign Minister Machimura dies at 70". Japan Times. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  2. ^ "LDP-backed candidate Wada wins seat in Hokkaido by-election". Japan Times. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  3. ^ "衆院補選 北海道５区は自民 和田義明氏が当選" [House of Representatives - Hokkaido 5th district by-election: LDP's Yoshiaki Wada has been elected] (in Japanese). NHK. 27 April 2016. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  4. ^ Hokkaidō Shimbun, April 24, 2016: 北海道５区補選、自民新人の和田氏勝利　池田氏、猛追及ばず Archived 2016-04-25 at the Wayback Machine