The is a former constituency for the House of Representatives between the 1947 and 1993 elections. It was abolished following the 1994 electoral reform when Japan moved from single non-transferable vote to a parallel system.
Located in the prefecture (-dō) of Hokkaidō, prior to its dissolution, it consisted of the cities (-shi) of Asahikawa, Rumoi, Wakkanai, Shibetsu, Nayoro, Furano and all other municipalities in the subprefectures (-shichō) Kamikawa, Sōya and Rumoi. With the return to single-member districts in the 1990s electoral reform, the district became the 7th district. In 2003 the 7th district was abolished and the area that was once the 2nd district was divided amongst the 6th, 10th and 12th districts of Hokkaidō.
List of representatives
Election Elected 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 1947 Yōichi Kawaguchi (JFP) Toshiaki Wada (JSP) Hideyo Sasaki (DP) Kōtarō Bandō (LP) 1949 Shinichi Tamaki (DLP) Rokutarō Matsumoto (JFP) Hideyo Sasaki (DLP) 1952 Shūtarō Matsūra (RP) Hideyo Sasaki (LP) Mitsugu Haga (LSP) rowspan="2" Shinichi Tamaki (LP) 1953 Mitsugu Haga (LSP) Shūtarō Matsūra (RP) Shinosuke Takeda (LP) 1955 Shūtarō Matsūra (DP), (LDP) Mitsugu Haga (LSP), (JSP) Hideyo Sasaki (DP) Tadayoshi Hayashi (DP), (LDP) 1958 Yoshinori Yasui (JSP) 1960 rowspan="2" Hideyo Sasaki (LDP) rowspan="2" Shūtarō Matsūra (LDP) rowspan="2" Mitsugu Haga (JSP) rowspan="2" Yoshinori Yasui (JSP) 1963 1967 rowspan="2" Shūtarō Matsūra (LDP) rowspan="2" Hideyo Sasaki (LDP) rowspan="4" Yoshinori Yasui (JSP) rowspan="2" Mitsugu Haga (JSP) 1969 1972 Hideyo Sasaki (LDP) rowspan="2" Mitsugu Haga (JSP) Shūtarō Matsūra (LDP) 1976 Masanori Kawata (LDP) Shikedoshi Murakami (LDP) 1979 Yoshiteru Uekusa (LDP) Yoshinori Yasui (JSP) Shikedoshi Murakami (LDP) Mitsugu Haga (JSP) 1980 Masanori Kawata (LDP) Kōzō Igarashi (JSP) Yoshiteru Uekusa (LDP) Yoshinori Yasui (JSP) 1983 Shikedoshi Murakami (LDP) Yoshinori Yasui (JSP) Kōzō Igarashi (JSP) rowspan="3" Yoshiteru Uekusa (LDP) 1986 Masanori Kawata (LDP) rowspan="3" Kōzō Igarashi (JSP) Yoshinori Yasui (JSP) 1990 Hidenori Sasaki (JSP) Hiroshi Imazu (LDP) 1993 Hiroshi Imazu (LDP) Hidenori Sasaki (JSP) Eikō Kaneta (LDP)
Election results (incomplete)
Elections in the 1990s
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |Party total seats ! style="text-align:center;" | Won ! style="text-align:center;" | Total ! style="text-align:center;" | Change |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Socialist |align=right|2 |align=right|4 |align=right| |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Liberal Democratic |align=right|2 |align=right|4 |align=right|
Elections in the 1980s
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |Party total seats ! style="text-align:center;" | Won ! style="text-align:center;" | Total ! style="text-align:center;" | Change |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Liberal Democratic |align=right|2 |align=right|4 |align=right| |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Socialist |align=right|2 |align=right|4 |align=right|
1980 Japanese general election Kozo Igarashi, Social Democratic Party, 100,311 votes Japanese Communist Party, 15,378 votes 1979 Japanese general election Japanese Communist Party, 21,693 votes 1976 Japanese general election Japanese Communist Party, 31,223 votes independent, 1,572 votes 1972 Japanese general election independent, 26,983 votes Japanese Communist Party, 24,964 votes 1969 Japanese general election Japanese Communist Party, 25,256 votes 1967 Japanese general election Japanese Communist Party, 22,322 votes 1963 Japanese general election Japanese Communist Party, 6,976 votes 1960 Japanese general election Japanese Communist Party, 5,534 votes 1958 Japanese general election Japanese Communist Party, 6,675 votes 1955 Japanese general election Japanese Communist Party, 7,685 votes 1953 Japanese general election independent, 26,228 votes Japanese Communist Party, 5,543 votes 1952 Japanese general election independent, 27,466 votes Japanese Communist Party, 6,139 votes 1949 Japanese general election Japanese Communist Party, 11,063 votes 1947 Japanese general election Japanese Communist Party, 3,271 votes independent, 3,012 votes
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