Hokkaido 3rd district

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.

Hokkaidō 3rd District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts
Sapporo-area detail
Prefecture	Hokkaidō
Proportional District	Hokkaidō
Electorate	474,944 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	CDP
Representative	Yutaka Arai
Created from	Hokkaido's 1st medium sized district [ja]
Municipalities	Sapporo's Shiroishi, Toyohira, and Kiyota Wards

The current representative from the district is Yutaka Arai of the Constitutional 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.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Gaku Ishizaki		LDP	1996 – 2000
Satoshi Arai		DPJ	2000 – 2005	Won in the PR block
Gaku Ishizaki		LDP	2005 – 2009	Also lost in the PR block
Satoshi Arai		DPJ	2009 – 2012	Won in the PR block
Hirohisa Takagi		LDP	2012 – 2017	Also lost in the PR block
Satoshi Arai		CDP	2017 – 2021	Retired in 2021
Hirohisa Takagi		LDP	2021 – 2024	Also lost in the PR block
Yutaka Arai		CDP	2024 –

Recent results

2024^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Yutaka Arai	100,136	41.7	3.0
	LDP	Hirohisa Takagi	83,089	34.6	8.4
	JCP	Richiko Itō	22,915	9.6	new
	Ishin	Yoshitaka Torikoshi	21,802	9.1	3.2
	Independent	Kenji Masuda	11,972	5.0	new
Turnout				53.62	2.62
	CDP gain from LDP

2021^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	116,917	44,66	0.98
	CDP	Yutaka Arai (won PR seat)	112,535	42.99	11.37
	Ishin	Yasufumi Kowada	32,340	12.35
Turnout				56.24	0.88
	LDP gain from CDP		Swing	5.25

2017^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Satoshi Arai	141,680	54.36	17.90
	LDP	Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō and NPD)	118,961	45.64	6.17
Majority			22,719	8.72
Turnout				57.12	4.01
	CDP gain from LDP		Swing	5.87

2014^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	92,649	39.47	2.59
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (won PR seat)	85,591	36.46	9.50
	JCP	Hiroko Yoshioka	30,271	12.90	4.68
	Ishin	Yasufumi Kowada	26,211	11.17	3.82
Turnout				53.11	1.97

2012^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hirohisa Takagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	88,360	36.88
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (endorsed by PNP) (won PR seat)	64,599	26.96
	Restoration	Yasufumi Kowada (endorsed by Your Party)	35,907	14.99	new
	NP-Daichi	Junko Machikawa (endorsed by TPJ)	31,024	12.95	new
	JCP	Tsuneto Mori	19,705	8.22	new
Turnout				55.08	15.83

2009^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (endorsed by PNP)	186,081	60.9
	LDP	Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	112,844	36.9
	Happiness Realization	Yoshinori Moriyama	6,723	2.2
Turnout			305,648	70.91	3.26

2005^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō	138,765	48.4
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (won PR seat)	125,445	43.7
	JCP	Ryūji Kawabe	22,581	7.9
Turnout			286,791	67.65

2003^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (endorsed by SDP)	114,131	46.8
	LDP	Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by NCP) (won PR seat)	111,252	45.6
	JCP	Ryūji Kawabe	18,537	7.6
Turnout			243,920	58.48

2000^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai	96,653	40.5
	LDP	Gaku Ishizaki (endorsed by NCP)	90,694	38.0
	JCP	Kenji Kodama (won PR seat)	41,499	17.4
	Liberal League	Mitsuhiro Yokoyama	9,909	4.2
Turnout			238,755	59.92

1996^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Gaku Ishizaki	54,275	26.3
	Democratic	Satoshi Arai (endorsed by NPS)	51,479	25.0
	New Frontier	Wakio Mitsui	50,902	24.7
	JCP	Kenji Kodama (won PR seat)	40,623	19.7
	New Socialist	Tomoka Uchimoto	9,010	4.4