HokkaidÅ 2nd district (北海é“第2区, Hokkai-dÅ dai-ni-ku) was an
SNTV four-member electoral district for the
House of Representatives, the lower house of the
National Diet of Japan, between 1947 and 1996, last used in the lower house election of 1993. Located in the
prefecture(-dÅ) of
HokkaidÅ, it consisted (as of 1993) of the
cities(-shi) of
Asahikawa,
Rumoi,
Wakkanai,
Shibetsu,
Nayoro,
Furano and all other municipalities in the subprefectures (-shichÅ)Kamikawa,
SÅya 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 HokkaidÅ.
List of representatives (incomplete)
YÅichi Kawaguchi, elected 1947, 1949 (Japanese Farmers Party→New Farmers Party→Progressive/Reform Party [KaishintÅ]→Japanese Socialist Party (right wing))
Mitsugu Haga 1952, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1979 (Japanese Socialist Party (left wing)→Japanese Socialist Party Nihon ShakaitÅ, self-chosen name for English-speaking foreigners in the 1990s: Social Democratic Party, not to be confused with the Social Democratic Party (ShakaiminshutÅ) that existed in the 1950s as a small breakaway from the Socialist Party or with the Social Democratic Party (ShakaiminshutÅ), the much smaller successor of the JSP since 1996])