Yūko Satō (politician)

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Yūko Satō ( Japanese 佐藤 夕子 , Satō Yūko ; born January 6, 1963 in Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician. From 2009 to 2012 she was a member of the lower house for the 1st constituency of Aichi .

Satō, a graduate of the short university of Kinjō Gakuin Daigaku , first worked in a kindergarten in Nagoya after completing her degree in education in 1983. In 1992 she switched to the private sector. In 2007 she was elected to the Aichi Prefectural Parliament for the Higashi-ku constituency. She gave up her mandate for the 2009 general election and ran for the national lower house to succeed her mentor Takashi Kawamura , now mayor of Nagoya. The first constituency of Aichi, a democratic stronghold, she was able to win for the Democratic Party against Yosuke Shinoda ( LDP ) and three other candidates.

In 2011, Satō left the party and joined Takashi Kawamura's Genzei Nippon . In 2012 she became a member of the Han-TPP, then the Future Party . For this she lost the 1st constituency of Aichi by around 17,000 votes to Hiromichi Kumada (LDP) in the 2012 Shūgiin election . With this constituency result she was second on the list of the future party in Tōkai, but the party only won a proportional representation there.

In the city parliament election in Nagoya 2015, part of the unified elections in April , Satō in the constituency of Higashi-ku ("East District"; two seats) was elected as the candidate of Genzei Nippon with the second highest percentage of votes in the city parliament.

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  1. ↑ Nagoya City, Parliament, MPs by constituency: Higashi-ku
  2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun , Results of unified local elections 2015, Aichi Prefecture, parliamentary elections in designated cities [Aichi is only Nagoya], Nagoya-shi Higashi-ku
personal data
SURNAME Satō, Yūko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 佐藤 夕子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture