Kokkai by-elections in Okinawa 1970
In extraordinary by-elections for the Japanese Kokkai in 1970 , the US Ryūkyū Islands elected a delegation to the Japanese National Parliament ( Kokkai ) for the first time since the Second World War on November 15, 1970 , before the return to Japan planned for 1972 as the (restored) 47th Okinawa Prefecture so that Okinawa had elected representation to one of the contracting parties in the final Japan-US negotiations and ratification.
From then on, Okinawa formed a prefecture-wide constituency ( 全 県 区zenken-ku ) with five seats for the lower house ( Shūgiin ), and actually one for the upper house ( Sangiin , elected but weaker successor to Kizokuin , the majority appointed, equal upper house in the Japanese Empire) Single-mandate constituency; However, since in 1970 the seats in both classes of the Chamber, otherwise staggered, were filled at the same time, the Sangiin election in Okinawa was exceptionally carried out as a joint SNTV election for two seats: the candidate with the most votes received a mandate until the regular election in 1974 , the runner-up only until 1971 . In Okinawa / Japan, the national elections in Okinawa in 1970 are also known as 国 政 参加 選 挙kokusei sanka sichyo (about "elections to participate in national politics"); a law of the same name was the basis of the election.
The turnout was 83.64% in the lower house election and 83.63% in the upper house election. The lower house seats of Okinawa won three candidates from the anti-American or at least against the “civil” US military government in Okinawa or an “independence” directed by the US military depending on the US, left opposition and two from the conservative, pro-American Japanese LDP government, which has meanwhile also pushed for the return, albeit while largely maintaining the extensive US military bases and some special rights: The LDP politicians (ex- OLDP ) Junji Nishime (92,596 votes) and Kōshō Kokuba ( 65,104), the Japanese socialist Kōsuke Uehara (73,331), the Okinawa socialist Tsumichiyo Asato (53,998), who later joined the Japanese DSP , and Kamejirō Senaga (76,978) of the communist Okinawa Jinmintō , who later joined the CPJ ; two candidates from Kōmeitō (44,870) and LDP (34,641) lost. The upper house election won the left-backed, independent candidate Shin'ei Kyan (later to the Dainiin Club ) with 212,929 votes before the Liberal Democrat Ichirō Inamine with 194,510 votes; a third, independent candidate was beaten with around 21,000 votes.
Web links
- 佐藤 令 Satō Ryō : 戦 後 の 補 欠 選 挙 ( sengo no hoketsu bekyo , lit. "post-war by-elections"). In: Reference 2005.12. National Parliamentary Library , 2005, accessed July 16, 2019 (Japanese). , P. 91 f.