Editing Hokkaido (section)

=== Assembly ===
The [[Hokkaido Legislative Assembly]] has 100 members from 47 electoral districts. {{As of|2015|April|30|df=US}}, the LDP caucus holds a majority with 51 seats, the [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]]-led group has 26 members. Other groups are the ''Hokkaidō Yūshikai'' of [[New Party Daichi]] and independents with twelve seats, [[Kōmeitō]] with eight, and the [[Japanese Communist Party]] with four members.<ref>Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly: [http://www.gikai.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp/_/meibo/grp/senkyoku-kaiha.pdf Members by electoral district and parliamentary group] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809214231/http://www.gikai.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp/_/meibo/grp/senkyoku-kaiha.pdf |date=2014-08-09 }} {{in lang|ja}}</ref> General elections for the Hokkaido assembly are currently held together with gubernatorial elections in the unified local elections (last round: [[2015 Japanese unified local elections|April 2015]]).