Hokkaidō 7th district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaidō. In a 2002 redistricting and reapportionment, Hokkaidō lost one seat and what had been the Hokkaido 13th district in the 1996 and 2000 general elections was renamed the 7th district. The previous 7th district was split up: the largest part merged into the 6th district and the remaining areas merged into the 10th and 12th districts.
Electorate The 7th district is located in Eastern Hokkaidō and covers the Kushiro and Nemuro subprefectures, in the Japanese viewpoint theoretically including the "Northern Territories (Southern Kuriles) administered by the Russian Federation. As of 2009, 278,402 eligible voters were registered in the district.Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成21年9月2日現在における選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数の概要
The district was represented by Liberal Democrat Yoshitaka Itō from 2009 to 2024. In the 2009 general election, the 7th district was the only district countrywide where a Democratic incumbent lost their seat and the only district in Hokkaidō won by the LDP. In the previous election of 2005 when the LDP won a landslide victory, it was one of few districts where a Democrat could unseat a Liberal Democratic incumbent.
List of representatives Representative Party Dates Notes Hokkaidō 13th district NFP 1996 — 1997 Left NFP in 1997 and returned to the LDP LDP 1997 — 2003 Hokkaidō 7th district Naoto Kitamura LDP 2003 — 2005 Failed reelection in the Hokkaidō PR block Hiroko Nakano DPJ 2005 — 2009 Reelected in the Hokkaidō PR block Yoshitaka Itō LDP 2009 — 2024 Takako Suzuki LDP 2024 —
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