2009 gubernatorial elections in Japan
In 2009 , gubernatorial elections were held in nine prefectures in Japan between January and November .
Note: Most candidates run as non-party in gubernatorial elections; therefore the party affiliations are not listed separately in the election results and only the recommendations and formal support given by the parties are listed. In the following, no distinction is made between support for national parties and prefectural associations.
January 25, 2009
Yamagata
In the first gubernatorial election of the year in Yamagata Prefecture , Mieko Yoshimura, with the support of the center-left parties, narrowly beat the LDP-supported incumbent Hiroshi Saitō with a high turnout.
candidate | Support parties | be right | proportion of | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mieko Yoshimura | DP , KPJ , SDP | 320.324 | 50.85% | |||
Hiroshi Saitō | LDP | 309.612 | 49.15% | |||
total | 629.936 | 100.00% | ||||
invalid votes | 3,403 | 0.54% | ||||
voter turnout | 633.360 | 65.51% |
Gifu
In the prefecture of Gifu , incumbent Hajime Furuta prevailed against only one Communist candidate for a second term. The turnout fell from 43.5 percent in 2005 by five percentage points.
candidate | Support parties | be right | proportion of | ||
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Hajime Furuta | LDP , Kōmeitō | 514.112 | 80.52% | ||
Kazuhiko Kinoshita | KPJ | 124,378 | 19.48% | ||
total | 638.490 | 100.00% | |||
invalid votes | 9.233 | 1.43% | |||
voter turnout | 647.723 | 38.44% |
March 29, 2009: Chiba
In Chiba , Governor Akiko Dōmoto did not run after two terms. Five candidates applied for her successor, including the former actor Kensaku Morita , who had challenged Dōmoto in 2005, Taira Yoshida, who enjoyed the support of the national opposition parties, and the former professor at Kansai University Masumi Shiraishi. The LDP Chiba could not decide whether to support Morita, Yoshida or Shiraishi and did not make a unified recommendation.
With voter turnout up by two percent, Morita prevailed.
candidate | Support parties | be right | proportion of | ||||
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Kensaku Morita | (unofficial / partially: LDP ) | 1,015,978 | 45.54% | ||||
Taira Yoshida | DP , SDP , NVP , NPJ (unofficial / partially: LDP ) | 636.991 | 28.56% | ||||
Masumi Shiraishi | (unofficial / partially: LDP ) | 346.002 | 15.51% | ||||
Fusayuki Hatta | KPJ | 136,551 | 6.12% | ||||
Ken'ichi Nishio | 95,228 | 4.27% | |||||
total | 2,230,750 | 100.00% | |||||
invalid votes | 21,397 | 0.95% | |||||
voter turnout | 2,252,177 | 45.56% |
April 12, 2009: Akita
In Akita Prefecture, four candidates applied to succeed Governor Sukeshiro Terata : Norihisa Satake , the previous mayor of the prefecture capital Akita and chairman of the conference of mayors of independent cities, Hiroshi Kawaguchi , so far mayor of Kosaka , Shōichirō Satō, former mayor of Ugo and already in 2005 Gubernatorial candidate, and the communist Kaneji Fujimoto.
The voter turnout recovered from the low of 2005 (63.0%) and rose to 67.4 percent. Satake, the heir of the former aristocratic family Satake , prevailed with a 55,000 vote lead over Kawaguchi . Kawaguchi became a Member of the House of Commons for Akita 2nd constituency in September 2009.
candidate | Support parties | be right | proportion of | ||
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Norihisa Satake | LDP , SDP | 291.150 | 47.06% | ||
Hiroshi Kawaguchi | DP | 234,340 | 37.88% | ||
Shōichirō Satō | - | 77,178 | 12.48% | ||
Kaneji Fujimoto | KPJ | 15,991 | 2.58% | ||
total | 618,659 | 100.00% | |||
invalid votes etc. | 5,348 | 0.86% | |||
voter turnout | 624.007 | 67.39% |
July 5, 2009
On July 5, a week before the national parliamentary election in Tokyo, gubernatorial elections were held in two prefectures: In Shizuoka , a successor to Yoshinobu Ishikawa , who resigned shortly before the end of his term in office, was elected; Since the two major parties supported different candidates, the election was considered, in addition to the Tokyo prefectural parliamentary election, as a mood test for the election to the national lower house, due before autumn 2009 . In Hyōgo , Toshizō Ido applied as a de facto all-party candidate ( ainori ) against only one Communist challenger for a third term.
Shizuoka
Governor Ishikawa resigned over the late opening of the controversial Shizuoka Airport in May. With the support of the national governing parties , the previous LDP upper house representative for Shizuoka Yukiko Sakamoto , the center-left opposition parties supported Heita Kawakatsu , previously professor at Shizuoka Bunka Geijutsu Daigaku and former government advisor , applied for his successor . In addition, Tōru Unno , former mayor of the prefecture capital Shizuoka and DP upper house deputy for Shizuoka, and the communist Sadayoshi Hirano ran.
With a significant increase in voter turnout (+16.6), Kawakatsu narrowly prevailed.
candidate | Support parties | be right | proportion of | |||
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Heita Kawakatsu | DP , SDP , NVP | 728.706 | 39.58% | |||
Yukiko Sakamoto | LDP , Kōmeitō | 713.657 | 38.76% | |||
Tōru Unno | - | 332,952 | 18.09% | |||
Sadayoshi Hirano | KPJ | 65,669 | 3.57% | |||
total | 1,840,984 | 100.00% | ||||
invalid votes etc. | 13,964 | 0.75% | ||||
voter turnout | 1,854,948 | 61.06% |
Hyogo
With only slightly recovered voter turnout (2005: 33.3%; 2001: 56.2%), Governor Ido's communist challenger Kōtarō Tanaka received almost a third of the votes.
candidate | Support parties | be right | proportion of | |||
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Toshizō Ido | LDP , Kōmeitō , SDP | 1,087,279 | 68.84% | |||
Kōtaro Tanaka | KPJ | 492.140 | 31.16% | |||
total | 1,579,419 | 100.00% | ||||
invalid votes etc. | 33,573 | 2.08% | ||||
voter turnout | 1,612,992 | 36.02% |
August 30, 2009: Ibaraki
In Ibaraki Prefecture , the 2009 gubernatorial election coincided with the national lower house election . Governor Masaru Hashimoto ran for a fifth term. In contrast to his last re-elections, when there was only one CPY-backed opponent candidate, five candidates ran against Hashimoto in 2009, including former MLIT official and State Secretary Masato Obata, who enjoyed the support of the LDP, cyclist Tomohiro Nagatsuka , and Takako Mamiya, who was the Communist candidate for governor in 2005. Nevertheless, Hashimoto won through with a high turnout.
candidate | Support parties | be right | proportion of | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Masaru Hashimoto | - | 743.945 | 47.10% | |
Masato Obata | LDP | 318,605 | 20.17% | |
Tomohiro Nagatsuka | - | 264.150 | 16.73% | |
Takako Mamiya | KPJ | 177,309 | 11.23% | |
Katsuyuki Morikawa | - | 41,494 | 2.63% | |
Takashi Kakihara | - | 33,863 | 2.14% | |
total | 1,579,366 | 100.00% | ||
invalid votes | 55.041 | 3.37% | ||
voter turnout | 1,634,407 | 67.97% |
October 25, 2009: Miyagi
In Miyagi Prefecture , Governor Yoshihiro Murai was challenged by Yasuo Endo, a former member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations who was supported by the now nationally ruling center-left parties. With voter turnout up around six percent, Murai was confirmed in office for another four years by an overwhelming majority.
candidate | Support parties | be right | proportion of | |||
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Yoshihiro Murai | - | 647.734 | 74.09% | |||
Yasuo Endo | DP , SDP , NVP | 174,702 | 19.98% | |||
Miyuki Amashita | KPJ | 51,848 | 5.93% | |||
total | 874.284 | 100.00% | ||||
invalid votes etc. | 5,206 | 0.59% | ||||
voter turnout | 879,490 | 46.57% |
November 8, 2009: Hiroshima
Yūzan Fujita , governor of Hiroshima , had retired after four terms. Five candidates applied for the successor. Hidehiko Yuzaki , a former MITI official, was supported by the largest factions in the prefectural parliament and by Fujita and won with an absolute majority of the votes cast. The best-placed rival candidate was Anri Kawai, member of the prefectural parliament and wife of LDP lower house member Katsuyuki Kawai .
candidate | Support parties | be right | proportion of | |
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Hidehiko Yuzaki | - (unofficial / partially: LDP , DP ) | 395,638 | 52.31% | |
Anri Kawai | - | 195,623 | 25.87% | |
Shōji Murakami | KPJ | 77,515 | 10.25% | |
Yasuhiro Kawamoto | - | 57,846 | 7.65% | |
Michiko Shibasaki | - | 29,646 | 3.92% | |
total | 756.268 | 100.00% | ||
invalid votes etc. | 21,460 | 2.76% | ||
voter turnout | 777.728 | 33.71% |
Web links
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication : gubernatorial election results
- Todōfuken Senkyo Kanri Iiinkai Rengōkai (Japanese for "Association of Prefectural Election Oversight Commissions ", English misleading National Election Administration Committee )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yamagata Prefecture Election Oversight Commission : Turnout and Results
- ↑ Gifu Prefecture Electoral Supervision Commission: Turnout and Results
- ↑ Chiba Prefecture Electoral Supervision Commission: Turnout and Results
- ↑ Akita Prefecture Electoral Supervision Commission: Governor's Election and By-election for the Prefectural Parliament 2009
- ↑ Shizuoka Prefecture Electoral Oversight Commission: 2009 Gubernatorial Election
- ↑ Hyogo Prefecture Electoral Supervision Commission: 2009 Governor Election
- ↑ Ibaraki Prefecture's Election Supervision Commission: House of Commons, Governors, Prefecture Parliament by- elections and referendum on the judges at the Supreme Court 2009 ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Shizuoka Prefecture Electoral Oversight Commission: 2009 Gubernatorial Election