Education
University of Tokyo.
横路 孝弘
University of Tokyo.
He left the House of Representatives and was elected to be the governor of Hokkaidō, serving for three terms from 1983 to 1995. After resigning 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 of the House of Representatives.
In the 2012 general election Yokomichi lost his single-seat electorate but retained a seat in the diet through the proportional representation system.