# Hokkaido 2nd district

Hokkaidō 2nd district (北海道[第]2区, Hokkai-dō [dai-]ni-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 prefectural capital of Hokkaido and consists of the Higashi ("East") ward and most of the Kita ("North") ward.
The current Representative is Kenko Matsuki, member of the CDP. He won the seat in a special election in April 2021 and was reelected in the general election later that year. Matsuki was formerly a representative of the Hokkaido 12th district.
The Representative from the district from 2012 to 2020 was Liberal Democrat Takamori Yoshikawa. In 2020 he resigned due to accusations of accepting bribes during his time as Agriculture Minister. Yoshikawa had lost the previous three elections to Democrat Wakio Mitsui. Yoshikawa had been the LDP candidate in the 2nd district since the initial election of 1996, but only won the district in 2000 (he won a Hokkaidō proportional seat on the LDP list in 1996 and 2005). Mitsui had contested the 3rd district for the NFP in 1996, but ranked third behind candidates from LDP and DPJ; in 2000, he ran only as a candidate on the DPJ proportional list and won a seat, before taking over the DPJ candidacy in the 2nd district in 2003.
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.

## List of representatives

| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes |
| Jun'ichi Osanai | NFP | 1996–1998 | Had represented the pre-reform 1st district for Kōmeitō→NFP since 1993 |
| Jun'ichi Osanai | Kōmeitō | 1998-2000 | Joined the New Peace Party (Heiwa Shintō) for a short period before it merged into Kōmeitō in 1998 |
| Takamori Yoshikawa | LDP | 2000–2003 | Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2003 |
| Wakio Mitsui | DPJ | 2003–2012 | Failed to win a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2012 |
| Takamori Yoshikawa | LDP | 2012–2020 | Resigned |
| Vacant (December 2020 – April 2021) |||||
| Kenko Matsuki | CDP | 2021– | |

## Recent results

2024 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | CDP | Kenkō Matsuki | 94,002 | 40.0 | 4.7 |
| | LDP | Yūsuke Takahashi | 76,835 | 32.7 | 7.2 |
| | Ishin | Izumi Yamazaki | 32,073 | 13.7 | 3.7 |
| | JCP | Shiori Miyauchi | 31,855 | 13.6 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 52.61 | 3.38 |
| | CDP hold | CDP hold | CDP hold | CDP hold |
2021 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | CDP | Kenkō Matsuki | 105,807 | 44.71 | 0.97 |
| | LDP | Yūsuke Takahashi | 89,745 | 37.93 | |
| | Ishin | Izumi Yamazaki | 41,076 | 17.36 | 0.89 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 6.78 | 16.90 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 52.60 | 22.14 |
| | CDP hold | CDP hold | CDP hold | CDP hold |
House of Representatives: 2021 Hokkaido 2nd district by-election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | CDP | Kenkō Matsuki | 59,664 | 43.74 | |
| | Independent | Yoshiko Tsuruha | 27,355 | 20.06 | |
| | Ishin | Izumi Yamazaki | 22,459 | 16.47 | |
| | Independent | Takanori Nagatomo | 15,738 | 11.54 | |
| | The Party to Protect the People from NHK | Tadayuki Saitō | 5,630 | 4.13 | |
| | Independent | Satoru Kobayashi | 5,552 | 4.07 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 23.68 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 30.46 | 23.66 |
| | CDP gain from LDP | CDP gain from LDP | Swing | | |
2017 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa | 104,824 | 41.35 | 4.55 |
| | Kibō no Tō | Kenkō Matsuki | 74,425 | 29.36 | N/A |
| | JCP | Masatoshi Kanakura | 52,626 | 20.76 | 4.86 |
| | Ishin | Yasufumi Owada | 21,643 | 8.54 | N/A |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 30,399 | 11.99 | 2.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 57.12 | |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | Swing | | |
2014 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 88,667 | 38.8 | 3.8 |
| Ishin | Kenkō Matsuki (endorsed by People's Life Party) (won PR seat) | 56,375 | 24.7 | did not run in previous election |
| Independent | Maki Ikeda | 46,922 | 20.6 | new |
| JCP | Masatoshi Kanakura | 36,277 | 15.9 | new |
2012 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 83,575 | 35.0 | 4.2 |
| Democratic | Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by PNP) | 55,520 | 23.2 | 31.0 |
| Restoration | Miho Takahashi (won PR seat) | 47,139 | 19.7 | new |
| JCP | Hideko Ōta | 28,183 | 11.8 | new |
| Your | Ryūji Sawada | 24,605 | 10.3 | new |
2009 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Democratic | Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by PNP) | 165,267 | 54.2 | +8.9 |
| LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 93,870 | 30.8 | −14.5 |
| JCP | Chiharu Oka | 27,580 | 9.0 | new |
| Social Democratic | Yumi Honda | 14,311 | 4.7 | new |
| Happiness Realization | Motomi Yamamoto | 3,782 | 1.2 | new |
2005 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Democratic | Wakio Mitsui | 129,357 | 45.3 |
| LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by Kōmeitō) (won PR seat) | 127,031 | 44.5 |
| JCP | Masatoshi Kanakura | 29,131 | 10.2 |
2003 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Democratic | Wakio Mitsui (endorsed by SDP) | 107,840 | 45.6 |
| LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by NCP) | 83,573 | 35.3 |
| JCP | Ichirō Oda | 24,259 | 10.3 |
| Independent | Yukiko Ishida (endorsed by Midori no Kaigi) | 18,227 | 7.7 |
| Independent | Mitsunori Hirosaka | 2,531 | 1.1 |
2000 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa (endorsed by NCP) | 76,276 | 31.2 |
| | Democratic | Yukiko Ishida | 63,965 | 26.1 |
| | JCP | Tomoko Kami | 60,461 | 24.7 |
| | Independent | Shizuhiro Matsuki | 19,775 | 8.1 |
| | Social Democratic | Takao Asano | 15,722 | 6.4 |
| | Liberal League | Tsutomu Fujita | 8,456 | 3.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 244,655 | 61.49 |
1996 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | New Frontier | Jun’ichi Osanai | 73,697 | 34.7 |
| | LDP | Takamori Yoshikawa | 63,524 | 29.9 |
| | JCP | Yukishi Yamane | 48,273 | 22.8 |
| | Liberal League | Shizuhiro Matsuki | 20,009 | 9.4 |
| | Youth Liberal Party | Ken’ichi Sawada | 6,653 | 3.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 212,156 | 54.60 |