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Hokkaido At-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Hokkaido and is represented by four Councillors electing two at a time every three years by single non-transferable vote for six-year terms. In the election period from 2013 to 2016, Hokkaido's Councillors are: * Katsuya Ogawa (DPJ, Hatoyama group; term ends in 2019), * Chūichi Date (LDP, Machimura faction; term ends in 2019), * Gaku Hasegawa (LDP, Machimura faction; term ends in 2016) and * Eri Tokunaga (DPJ; term ends in 2016). After the House of Councillors had replaced the House of Peers according to the constitution of 1947, Hokkaido was represented by eight Councillors. In the early years of the 1955 System, all four seats went to the two major postwar parties, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Japan Socialist Party (JSP). But smaller parties such as the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) had a chance to pick up seats in Hokkaido as the vote share sufficient to gain a seat was often significantly below 20 percent. The high number of candidates increased the risk of vote splitting for the major parties: In 1974, two incumbent LDP candidates and conservative independent Tatsuo Takahashi ranked 5th, 6th and 7th leaving all four seats to the center-left to left opposition parties Kōmeitō, JSP and JCP. In a major reapportionment in 1994 the number of Councillors from Hokkaido was halved to four. It became effective in the 1995 and 1998 elections. Like most two-member districts Hokkaidō usually splits seats evenly between Democrats and Liberal Democrats. == Elected Councillors == 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hokkaido At-large district」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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