Talk:Hokkaido proportional representation block

Earlier edit/format change
I didn't have much time and only wanted to fix the party affiliations for Suzuki & Matsuki in passing by. [I accidentally mixed up the reasons in the edit comment; obviously, Suzuki/the NPD defected to the gov. side over the "united front" election strategy in the HR by-election and Matsuki's party merged] and then I saw: Yokomichi? He won back his seat in the direct election in 2014. And I didn't have the time to go through the whole table again to look for other errors. That's why I reverted it, not because of anything else; and if you really find the other format more readable you can reimplement it [but with the correct people elected in the proportional election – you can run for two seats in general lower house elections, but you can only sit on one] or if you prefer I can do it when I have more time in order to also check all of them for party changes between elections. (Although: I had tried to arranged the parties for past mergers/split and high likelihood of switchovers, putting the Communists (who are extremely unlikely to merge or have members defect to/from other parties) in the center sort of makes that impossible, and I find it also confusing policy-wise; but there of course, the whole party system in Japan is a muddle and an attempt to arrange them on one left-right axis is futile [only JCP and SDP are left/left on both security/constitution/US-alliance and economics; Kōmeitō is centre-right/centre-left, LDP is right/centre-left-or-rather-all-over-the-place, NFP was also very broad, but in its platform and leadership more towards right/right, the "new" DPJ after the ex-NFP takeover was left-to-all-over-the-place/right-to-all-over-the-place-plus-tied-to-the-unions, the various "tea parties" (NRP, YP, JIP, IO, etc.) are centre-right to hard-right/right, but are "centrist" in the sense that they were formed by policians from both major parties... How could anyone order that in one left/right-pattern without contradictions?] Therefore I arranged them mainly for membership fluctuation/merger history, with putting JCP left and the LDP right as the only tribute to political orientations. But I do not insist on that at all.) Sorry for the brute-force edit when I only wanted to fix a minor thing, I was in more of a hurry than one should be while clicking an "Edit" button, Asakura Akira (talk) 21:06, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

I totally understand. As you've probably noticed, I updated the table and re-uploaded it, correcting for Yokomichi. I had made the mistake of mixing Yokomichi up with Arai. I had formatted the table in such a way to preserve rough left/right (with the term applied loosely, of course) while also indicating representatives who had served contiguous terms in the district, save Suzuki, whose two terms as a member of the NPD I broke up in order to not place an LDP rep between two DPJ members in the table. Thanks for letting me know why you made the change. Ynot101796 (talk) 01:07, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. For your understanding and your work. (I could swear I had thanked you for the edit via the notification system; but I probably forgot to click the confirmation button or something, anyway: sorry for the late reaction.) --Asakura Akira (talk) 13:20, 20 August 2016 (UTC)