2017 Tokyo prefectural election

Tokyo prefectural election, 2017
All 127 seats in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly; 64 seats needed for a majority
Assembly President before election; Shigeo Kawai; LDP	Elected Assembly President ; Daisuke Ozaki; Tomin First

Prefectural elections for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly (平成29年/2017年東京都議会議員選挙, Heisei 29-nen/2017-nen Tōkyō togikai giin senkyo, "Heisei 29/2017 election of members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly") were held on 2 July 2017. The 127 members were elected in forty-two electoral districts, seven returning single members elected by first-past-the-post, and thirty-five returning multiple members under single non-transferable vote. Four districts had their magnitude adjusted in this election to match population changes.

The results of the election persuaded Shinzo Abe to call a snap election, and led to the resignation of Renho as Democratic Party leader.

Background

LDP leader Shinzo Abe took office as Prime Minister following the 2012 general election and strengthened his position in the 2014 general election. However, Abe's government was subsequently struck by criticism for its handling of the Moritomo Gakuen scandal and controversial remarks by Defense Minister Tomomi Inada.^[1] In the meantime, Yuriko Koike won the 2016 Tokyo gubernatorial election as an independent candidate, and left the LDP in June 2017 to found a new local political party, Tomin First, to challenge the LDP in the prefectural election.^[2] At the time of the election, Koike was widely believed to be eyeing a future bid to replace Abe as prime minister.^[1]^[2]

Candidates

Incumbents (as of June 23) and candidates for the 2017 election^[3]^[4]
Party		Incumbents	Candidates
Party		Incumbents	Incumbents	Previous representatives	New	Total	(Women)
style="background-color:Template:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color;" \|	Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)	57	49	0	11	60	(6)
style="background-color:Template:Komeito/meta/color;" \|	Kōmeitō (Kōmei)	22	19	0	4	23	(3)
style="background-color:Template:Japanese Communist Party/meta/color;" \|	Japanese Communist Party (JCP)	17	11	1	25	37	(17)
style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party (Japan, 2016)/meta/color;" \|	Democratic Party (DP)	7	7	6	10	23	(6)
style="background-color:Template:Tomin First no Kai/meta/color;" \|	Tomin First no Kai (Tomin)	6	6	4	40	50	(17)
style="background-color:Template:Tokyo Seikatsusha Network/meta/color;" \|	Tokyo Seikatsusha Network (Net)	3	2	0	2	4	(4)
style="background-color:Template:Initiatives from Osaka/meta/color;" \|	Nippon Ishin no Kai (Ishin)	1	1	1	2	4	(1)
style="background-color:Template:Social Democratic Party (Japan)/meta/color;" \|	Social Democratic Party (SDP)	0	0	0	1	1	(1)
	Other	0	0	1	16	17	(4)
	Independent	13	11	4	25	40	(6)
Total		126 (1 vacancy)	106	17	136	259	(65)

Results

With counting almost complete, the seat distribution was as follows:^[5]^[6]^[7]

Supporters of Yuriko Koike won 79 seats in total: 49 by Tomin First no Kai, 23 by Kōmeitō, 1 by the Seikatsusha Net, and 6 by independents endorsed by Tomin;
The LDP, previously the largest party, fell to 23 seats, their worst-ever result (their worst scores had previously been 38 seats, in the 1965 and 2009 elections);
The Communist Party won 19 seats, improving further on their strong 2013 result;
The DP was reduced to five seats and the single Ishin no Kai incumbent defended his seat.

Months after the Tokyo prefectural election, Abe called a snap general election for October 2017, and Koike established the new Kibo no To party to challenge the LDP nationally.

Results summary

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Vote Share

Tomin			33.68%
LDP			22.53%
JCP			13.83%
Kōmei			13.13%
DP			6.9%
Net			1.25%
Ishin			0.97%
SDP			0.24%
Others			0.77%
Independents			6.77%

Seat Share

Tomin			38.58%
LDP			18.11%
Kōmei			18.11%
JCP			14.96%
DP			3.94%
Net			0.79%
Ishin			0.79%
Independents			4.72%

Results by district

Winners^[5]^[6]^[7] and candidates^[3] by district and party
District	# of seats	Total candidates	Elected/Candidates^Endorsements
District	# of seats	Total candidates	LDP	Kōmei	JCP	DP	Tomin	Net	Ishin	SDP	Other	Ind.
Chiyoda	1	4	0/1^Kokoro				1/1^Kōmei				0/1	0/1^JCP
Chūō	1	5	0/1^Kokoro				1/1^Kōmei				0/1	0/2^1×JCP
Minato	2	6	1/2^Kokoro		0/1		1/1^Kōmei				0/1	0/1^Tomin
Shinjuku	4	7	1/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	0/1	1/1^Net					0/1
Bunkyō	2	3	1/1^Kokoro		0/1		1/1^Kōmei
Taitō	2	5	0/1^Kokoro		0/1		1/1^Kōmei					1^Kōmei&Tomin/2
Sumida	3	5	1/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	0/1		1/1
Kōtō	4	9	1/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	0/1	1/1				0/1	0/2^1×Tomin
Shinagawa	4	7	0/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	0/1^LP&Net	2/2
Meguro	3	5	0/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1		1/1^Net
Ōta	8	15	2/3^Kokoro	2/2^Tomin	1/2	0/1^LP&Net	2/2		1/1		0/1	0/3
Setagaya	8	18	3/3^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	1/1^LP	2/2	0/1^DP	0/1	0/1^LP	0/2	0/5
Shibuya	2	5	0/1^Kokoro		0/1	0/1^LP	1/1^Kōmei					1/1^Kōmei&Tomin
Nakano	3 (-1)	6	0/1^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	0/1	1/1^LP&Net	1/1				0/1
Suginami	6	12	2/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	0/2^LP	2/2	0/1^DP			0/2	0/1
Toshima	3	5	0/1^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	0/1^LP	1/1
Kita	3 (-1)	5	0/1^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1^LP	0/1^LP	1/1
Arakawa	2	7	0/1^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	0/1						0/1	1^Tomin/3
Itabashi	5	10	0/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	1/1^LP&Net	2/2				0/1	0/2
Nerima	6	10	1/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	1/2^LP	2/2	0/1^DP			0/1
Adachi	6	9	1/2^Kokoro	2/2^Tomin	1/1	0/1^LP	2/2^1×Net		0/1
Katsushika	4	8	1/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	0/1^LP&Net	1/1				0/2
Edogawa	5	6	1/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1		2/2
Hachiōji	5	9	1/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	0/1^LP&Net	2/2				0/1	0/1
Tachikawa	2	4	1/1^Kokoro		0/1		1/1^Kōmei					0/1^Tomin
Musashino	1	3	0/1^Kokoro			0/1^LP&Net	1/1^Kōmei
Mitaka	2	4	0/1^Kokoro		0/1	1/1^LP&Net	1/1^Kōmei
Ōme	1	3	0/1^Kokoro				1/1^Kōmei&Net					0/1^JCP
Fuchū	2	4	0/1^Kokoro		0/1		2/2^{Kōmei&1×Net}
Akishima	1	3	0/1^Kokoro		0/1		1/1^Kōmei&Net
Machida	4 (+1)	8	1/2^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	0/1^LP&Net	1/1		0/1		0/1
Koganei	1	5	0/1^Kokoro				1/1^Kōmei					0/3^1×JCP
Kodaira	2	4	1/1^Kokoro		0/1	0/1^LP&Net	1/1^Kōmei
Hino	2	4	1/1^Kokoro		0/1		1/1^Kōmei&Net					0/1
Nishi-Tōkyō	2	4	0/1^Kokoro		0/1		1/1^Kōmei					1/1^Tomin
Nishi-Tama	2	4	1/1^Kokoro		0/1		1/1^Kōmei&Net					0/1^Tomin&Net
Minami-Tama	2	5	0/1^Kokoro		0/1		1/1^Kōmei&Net					1^Tomin/2
Kita-Tama 1	3	6	0/1^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1	0/1^LP	1/1					0/1
Kita-Tama 2	2	4	0/1^Kokoro			0/1^LP	1/1^Kōmei	1/1^{JCP, DP, Tomin}
Kita-Tama 3	3 (+1)	6	0/1^Kokoro	1/1^Tomin	1/1							1^Tomin&Net/3
Kita-Tama 4	2	4	0/1^Kokoro		1/1		1/1^Kōmei					0/1^Tomin&Net
Islands	1	3	1/1^Kokoro		0/1		0/1^Kōmei
Total	127	259	23/60	23/23	19/37	5/23	49/50	1/4	1/4	0/1	0/17	6^Tomin/40

Most districts are coterminous with a municipality (-ku/-shi/-chō/-son) of the same name. The following districts comprise multiple municipalities:

Nishi-Tama ("West Tama“; follows the original boundaries of the district of the same name, except Ōme): Fussa, Hamura, Akiruno, Hinohara, Hinode, Mizuho, Okutama
Minami-Tama ("South Tama“; follows the boundaries of the former district of the same name): Tama, Inagi
Kita-Tama dai-1 ("North Tama #1“; follows the boundaries of the former Kitatama district): Higashi-Murayama, Higashi-Yamato, Musashi-Murayama
Kita-Tama dai-2 ("North Tama #2“): Kokubunji, Kunitachi
Kita-Tama dai-3 ("North Tama #3“): Chōfu, Komae
Kita-Tama dai-4 ("North Tama #4“): Kiyose, Higashi-Kurume
Islands: Aogashima, Hachijō, Mikurajima, Miyake, Ogasawara, Kōzushima, Niijima, Ōshima, Toshima

Same-day elections

On the same day, the mayoral election in Kokubunji, Tokyo returned incumbent Kunio Izawa, backed by LDP and Komeito, against center-left supported (DP, JCP, LP, SDP, Net) former deputy mayor Michio Higuchi.^[8]^[9]^[10] Another prefectural election on July 2 was the gubernatorial election in Hyōgo.^[11]

References

^ ^a ^b "A local election in Tokyo may have just changed Japanese politics". Los Angeles Times. 2017-07-02. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
^ ^a ^b Rich, Motoko (2017-07-03). "Tokyo Voters' Rebuke Signals Doubt About Shinzo Abe's Future". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
^ ^a ^b 都議選２０１７>党派別立候補者数. Tōkyō Shimbun (in Japanese). 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
^ Yomiuri Shimbun: Togisen 2017 (japanisch)
^ ^a ^b NHK News Web (short-term online availability), Shutoken studio, election coverage: Results Archived 2017-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b Yomiuri Shimbun: Togisen 2017
^ ^a ^b Asahi Shimbun: 2017 togisen
^ Tokyo Metropolitan election commission: 2017 electoral calendar of national, prefectural/Metropolitan and municipal elections in Tokyo
^ Mainichi Shimbun, July 3, 2017: 国分寺市長選　井沢氏再選果たす　待機児童対策訴え　／東京
^ Kokubunji City electoral commission: On the 2 July 2017 elections of Metropolitan assembly members and city mayor, Mayoral election result Template:Ja
^ The Mainichi [English online edition of the Mainichi Shimbun], July 3, 2017: Incumbent Ido secures 5th term as Hyogo governor

External links

Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Secretariat of the election administration commission: Turnout and Results of the 2017 Metropolitan Assembly election (pdf/excel) Template:Ja

[:0-1] "A local election in Tokyo may have just changed Japanese politics". Los Angeles Times. 2017-07-02. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-10-09.

[:1-2] Rich, Motoko (2017-07-03). "Tokyo Voters' Rebuke Signals Doubt About Shinzo Abe's Future". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-10-09.

[Tokyo_shimbun_stats-3] 都議選２０１７>党派別立候補者数. Tōkyō Shimbun (in Japanese). 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2017-06-23.

[4] Yomiuri Shimbun: Togisen 2017 (japanisch)

[NHK_summary-5] NHK News Web (short-term online availability), Shutoken studio, election coverage: Results Archived 2017-07-03 at the Wayback Machine

[Yomiuri_summary-6] Yomiuri Shimbun: Togisen 2017

[Asahi_summary-7] Asahi Shimbun: 2017 togisen

[8] Tokyo Metropolitan election commission: 2017 electoral calendar of national, prefectural/Metropolitan and municipal elections in Tokyo

[9] Mainichi Shimbun, July 3, 2017: 国分寺市長選　井沢氏再選果たす　待機児童対策訴え　／東京

[10] Kokubunji City electoral commission: On the 2 July 2017 elections of Metropolitan assembly members and city mayor, Mayoral election result Template:Ja

[11] The Mainichi [English online edition of the Mainichi Shimbun], July 3, 2017: Incumbent Ido secures 5th term as Hyogo governor

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