Takahiro Yokomichi

Takahiro Yokomichi
横路 孝弘
Yokomichi in 2012
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office 16 September 2009 – 16 November 2012
Monarch	Akihito
Deputy	Seishirō Etō
Preceded by	Yōhei Kōno
Succeeded by	Bunmei Ibuki
Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office 21 September 2005 – 21 July 2009
Monarch	Akihito
Speaker	Yōhei Kōno
Preceded by	Kansei Nakano
Succeeded by	Seishirō Etō
Governor of Hokkaido
In office 23 April 1983 – 22 April 1995
Preceded by	Naohiro Dōgakinai
Succeeded by	Tatsuya Hori
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 7 November 1996 – 28 September 2017
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Daiki Michishita
Constituency	Hokkaido 1st (1996–2012; 2014–2017) Hokkaido PR (2012–2014)
In office 27 December 1969 – 23 April 1983
Constituency	Former Hokkaido 1st
Personal details
Born	(1941-01-03)3 January 1941 Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Died	2 February 2023(2023-02-02) (aged 82) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	CDP (2017–2023)
Other political affiliations	JSP (1969–1983) Independent (1983–1996) DP 1996 (1996–1998) DPJ (1998–2016) DP 2016 (2016–2017)
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Website	Official website

Takahiro Yokomichi (横路 孝弘, Yokomichi Takahiro, 3 January 1941 – 2 February 2023)^[1] was a Japanese politician who belonged to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and was a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Sapporo, Hokkaidō, and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was elected to the first of his five terms in the House of Representatives in 1969 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party in the electoral district of his late father Setsuo. He left the House of Representatives and was elected to be the governor of Hokkaidō. He served for three terms from 1983 to 1995. After finishing his term as governor, he left the Socialist Party, joining the DPJ. In 1996 he was re-elected to the House of Representatives. He is the leader of the most left-leaning faction in the DPJ. After the victory of 2009 elections, then-DPJ President Yukio Hatoyama named him as the next house speaker.

In the 2012 general election Yokomichi lost his single-seat electorate but retained a seat in the Diet through the proportional representation system.^[2] He managed to regain his seat in the 2014 election and held it until he retired in 2017.

• Official website in Japanese.

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