2016 Hokkaido 5th district by-election
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A <entity_2> for the Hokkaido-5th seat in the Japanese House of Representatives was held on <entity_1>, coinciding with another <entity_2> in Kyoto. After Machimura's death, the <entity_2> in the 5th district was initially planned for October 2015; but as a Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the 2014 House of Representatives election (see Elections in <entity_3>#malapportionment) was pending, the scheduling of the <entity_2> was suspended. By September 2015, it was clear that the Supreme Court decision would not come in time to schedule the Hokkaido <entity_2> for October, so it was postponed to <entity_1> and eventually scheduled for <entity_1>. In February 2016, DPJ Hokkaido proportional <entity_0> Takako Suzuki (the daughter of NPD founder Muneo Suzuki) applied to leave the Democratic Party over the party's cooperation with the Communist Party in the 5th district <entity_2>.
['by-election']