2019 Japanese unified local elections
(Learn how and when to remove this message) The first stage of the 19th unified local elections (第19回統一地方選挙, dai-jūkyū-kai tōitsu chihō senkyo) in Japan took place on April 7, 2019 with the second following on 21 April 2019.[1]
Results
Governors
Prefecture | Turnout (%) | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
Fukui Prefecture | 58.35 | | Independent | Tatsuji Sugimoto | 220,774 | 59.3 |
| Independent | Issei Nishikawa | 131,098 | 35.2 |
| Communist Party | Yukie Kanemoto | 20,462 | 5.5 |
Fukuoka Prefecture | 42.72 | | Independent | Hiroshi Ogawa | 1,293,648 | 73.6 |
| Independent | Kazuhisa Takeuchi | 345,085 | 19.6 |
| Independent | Kiyoshi Shinoda | 119,871 | 6.8 |
Hokkaido | 58.34 | | Independent | Naomichi Suzuki | 1,621,171 | 62.7 |
| Independent | Tomohiro Ishikawa | 963,942 | 37.3 |
Kanagawa Prefecture | 40.28 | | Independent | Yuji Kuroiwa | 2,251,289 | 76.3 |
| Independent | Makiko Kishi | 700,091 | 23.7 |
Mie Prefecture | 46.68 | | Independent | Eikei Suzuki | 615,281 | 89.7 |
| Independent | Kanako Suzuki | 70,657 | 10.3 |
Nara Prefecture | 48.49 | | Independent | Shōgo Arai | 256,451 | 47.5 |
| Independent | Kiyoshige Maekawa | 174,277 | 32.3 |
| Independent | Minoru Kawashima | 108,701 | 20.2 |
Ōita Prefecture | 47.41 | | Independent | Katsusada Hirose | 360,246 | 80.7 |
| Communist Party | Kai Yamashita | 66,502 | 14.9 |
| Independent | Yoshiko Shutō | 19,701 | 4.4 |
Osaka Prefecture | 49.49 | | Osaka Restoration Association | Hirofumi Yoshimura | 2,266,103 | 64.4 |
| Independent | Tadakazu Konishi | 1,254,200 | 35.6 |
Shimane Prefecture | 62.04 | | Independent | Tatsuya Maruyama | 150,338 | 43.6 |
| Independent | Seiji Ōba | 120,276 | 34.9 |
| Independent | Jirō Shimada | 40,694 | 11.8 |
| Independent | Yasuko Yamasaki | 33,699 | 9.8 |
Tokushima Prefecture | 48.34 | | Independent | Kamon Iizumi | 158,972 | 53.0 |
| Independent | Taiji Kishimoto | 122,779 | 40.9 |
| Communist Party | Atsushi Amou | 18,332 | 6.1 |
Tottori Prefecture | 53.09 | | Independent | Shinji Hirai | 225,883 | 92.3 |
| Independent | Hideyuki Fukuzumi | 14,056 | 5.7 |
| Independent | Hiroshi Inoue | 4,905 | 2.0 |
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Source: NHK |
Prefectural assemblies
Mayors of designated cities
Designated city | Turnout (%) | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
Hamamatsu | 55.75 | | Independent | Yasutomo Suzuki | 195,728 | 55.1 |
| Independent | Ryotaro Yamamoto | 134,611 | 37.9 |
| Independent | Masashi Nozawa | 25,195 | 7.1 |
Hiroshima | 36.62 | | Independent | Kazumi Matsui | 295,038 | 85.4 |
| Independent | Kazuyuki Sengo | 27,876 | 8.1 |
| Independent | Kazuhiro Kaneko | 22,365 | 6.5 |
Osaka | 52.70 | | Osaka Restoration Association | Ichirō Matsui | 660,819 | 58.1 |
| Independent | Akira Yanagimoto | 476,351 | 41.9 |
Sagamihara | 48.91 | | Independent | Kentarou Motomura | 132,186 | 46.7 |
| Independent | Toshio Kayama | 74,456 | 26.3 |
| Independent | Yuichiro Miyazaki | 40,467 | 14.3 |
| Independent | Daijiro Yagi | 35,753 | 12.6 |
Sapporo | 56.25 | | Independent | Katsuhiro Akimoto | 634,365 | 70.6 |
| Independent | Tatsuo Watanabe | 264,008 | 29.4 |
Shizuoka | 48.76 | | Independent | Nobuhiro Tanabe | 138,454 | 49.6 |
| Independent | Shingo Amano | 107,407 | 38.5 |
| Independent | Katsushi Hayashi | 33,322 | 11.9 |
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Source: NHK |
Designated city assemblies
Designated city | Total seats | Seats won |
LDP | Komeito | JCP | CDP | DPFP | NIK | SDP | Kibō | Others | Ind. |
| | | | | | | | | |
Chiba | 50 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | 2 | 6 |
Fukuoka | 62 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | – | 5 | 8 |
Hamamatsu | 46 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 28 |
Hiroshima | 54 | 26 | 8 | 5 | – | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
Kawasaki | 60 | 19 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 0 | – | 0 | 1 | 8 |
Kobe | 69 | 20 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 10 | – | – | 3 | 6 |
Kumamoto | 48 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 23 |
Kyoto | 67 | 21 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 4 | – | – | 5 | 2 |
Nagoya | 68 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 6 | – | – | – | 14 | 0 |
Niigata | 51 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 17 |
Okayama | 46 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 13 |
Osaka | 83 | 17 | 18 | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 40 | 4 |
Sagamihara | 46 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 4 | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Saitama | 60 | 23 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | – | 0 | 4 |
Sakai | 48 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 18 | 5 |
Sapporo | 68 | 26 | 10 | 10 | 19 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 1 |
Yokohama | 86 | 33 | 16 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 9 |
Total | 1,012 | 327 | 171 | 115 | 99 | 33 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 91 | 156 |
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Source: NHK |
See also
References
- ^ "Voter turnout in Japan's unified local elections marks record lows in cities". Mainichi Daily News. 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
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