Hokkaido 12th district

Hokkaidō 12th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Hokkaidō Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Hokkaido
Proportional District	Hokkaido
Electorate	286,186 (2021)[1]
Major settlements	Kitami City, Abashiri, Monbetsu and Wakkanai
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Arata Takebe
Municipalities	Sōya Subprefecture and Okhotsk Subprefecture

Hokkaidō 12th District (北海道第12区) is an electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. The district was established in 1994 and had major boundary changes in 2002 and 2017.

The 12th District is in northern Hokkaido. It covers the areas of Sōya Subprefecture and Okhotsk Subprefecture; this includes the cities of Kitami, Abashiri, Monbetsu, and Wakkanai. It occupies about one-sixth of the area of Hokkaido and is the largest constituency in the House of Representatives (14,740.93 km², the same as Iwate Prefecture).^[2]

In 2002, the Soya Branch Office was transferred to the 7th district of Hokkaido. In 2017, The town of Horonobe was moved from the 10th district to the 12th district.

2021^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Arata Takebe	97,634	58.43	4.29
	CDP	Eisei Kawaharada	55,321	33.11
	JCP	Makoto Sugawara	14,140	8.46	4.86
Majority				25.32	3.70
Turnout				59.82	1.66
	LDP hold		Swing