Hokkaidō 7th district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan.
It is located in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaidō.
The 7th district is located in Eastern Hokkaidō and covers the Kushiro and Nemuro subprefectures, in the Japanese viewpoint theoretically including the "Northern Territories (Southern Kuriles) administered by the Russian Federation.
[2] The district has been represented by Liberal Democrat Yoshitaka Itō since 2009.
In the previous election of 2005 when the LDP won a landslide victory, it was one of few districts where a Democrat could unseat a Liberal Democratic incumbent.