is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in the prefecture of Hokkaidō and consists of Hokkaido's Hiyama and Oshima subprefectures.
History From 1947 the district was known as the Hokkaido 3rd district and elected three members to the House. Under the 1994 reforms that came into effect at the 1996 general election, the district's boundaries were not changed but it was renamed to the 8th district and had its representation reduced to one. This reduction was offset by the introduction of the multi-member Hokkaido proportional representation block that elects eight members to represent the entire prefecture.
List of representatives Representative Party Dates Notes Yoshio Hachiro DPJ 1996 – 2003 Switched to the Hokkaido 4th district. Seiichi Kaneta DPJ 2003 – 2009 Seiji Osaka DPJ 2009 – 2012 Kazuo Maeda LDP 2012 – 2014 won a proportional seat in the Hokkaidō block in 2014 Seiji Osaka DPJ 2014 – 2017 CDP 2017 – 2026Jun Mukoyama LDP 2026 –
Recent results
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