2019 Japanese unified local elections
# 2019 Japanese unified local elections

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.

## Results

### Governors

| Prefecture | Turnout (%) | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fukui Prefecture | 58.35 | Independent | Tatsuji Sugimoto | 220,774 | 59.3 |
| Fukui Prefecture | 58.35 | Independent | Issei Nishikawa | 131,098 | 35.2 |
| Fukui Prefecture | 58.35 | Communist Party | Yukie Kanemoto | 20,462 | 5.5 |
| Fukuoka Prefecture | 42.72 | Independent | Hiroshi Ogawa | 1,293,648 | 73.6 |
| Fukuoka Prefecture | 42.72 | Independent | Kazuhisa Takeuchi | 345,085 | 19.6 |
| Fukuoka Prefecture | 42.72 | Independent | Kiyoshi Shinoda | 119,871 | 6.8 |
| Hokkaido | 58.34 | Independent | Naomichi Suzuki | 1,621,171 | 62.7 |
| Hokkaido | 58.34 | Independent | Tomohiro Ishikawa | 963,942 | 37.3 |
| Kanagawa Prefecture | 40.28 | Independent | Yuji Kuroiwa | 2,251,289 | 76.3 |
| Kanagawa Prefecture | 40.28 | Independent | Makiko Kishi | 700,091 | 23.7 |
| Mie Prefecture | 46.68 | Independent | Eikei Suzuki | 615,281 | 89.7 |
| Mie Prefecture | 46.68 | Independent | Kanako Suzuki | 70,657 | 10.3 |
| Nara Prefecture | 48.49 | Independent | Shōgo Arai | 256,451 | 47.5 |
| Nara Prefecture | 48.49 | Independent | Kiyoshige Maekawa | 174,277 | 32.3 |
| Nara Prefecture | 48.49 | Independent | Minoru Kawashima | 108,701 | 20.2 |
| Ōita Prefecture | 47.41 | Independent | Katsusada Hirose | 360,246 | 80.7 |
| Ōita Prefecture | 47.41 | Communist Party | Kai Yamashita | 66,502 | 14.9 |
| Ōita Prefecture | 47.41 | Independent | Yoshiko Shutō | 19,701 | 4.4 |
| Osaka Prefecture | 49.49 | Osaka Restoration Association | Hirofumi Yoshimura | 2,266,103 | 64.4 |
| Osaka Prefecture | 49.49 | Independent | Tadakazu Konishi | 1,254,200 | 35.6 |
| Shimane Prefecture | 62.04 | Independent | Tatsuya Maruyama | 150,338 | 43.6 |
| Shimane Prefecture | 62.04 | Independent | Seiji Ōba | 120,276 | 34.9 |
| Shimane Prefecture | 62.04 | Independent | Jirō Shimada | 40,694 | 11.8 |
| Shimane Prefecture | 62.04 | Independent | Yasuko Yamasaki | 33,699 | 9.8 |
| Tokushima Prefecture | 48.34 | Independent | Kamon Iizumi | 158,972 | 53.0 |
| Tokushima Prefecture | 48.34 | Independent | Taiji Kishimoto | 122,779 | 40.9 |
| Tokushima Prefecture | 48.34 | Communist Party | Atsushi Amou | 18,332 | 6.1 |
| Tottori Prefecture | 53.09 | Independent | Shinji Hirai | 225,883 | 92.3 |
| Tottori Prefecture | 53.09 | Independent | Hideyuki Fukuzumi | 14,056 | 5.7 |
| Tottori Prefecture | 53.09 | Independent | Hiroshi Inoue | 4,905 | 2.0 |
| Source: NHK |||||||

### Prefectural assemblies

| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prefecture | Total seats | LDP | Komeito | CDP | JCP | DPFP | SDP | NIK | LP | Kibō | Others | Ind. |
| Hokkaido | 100 | 51 | 8 | 24 | 3 | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | 14 |
| Aichi Prefecture | 102 | 57 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 8 | – | 0 | – | – | 1 | 23 |
| Akita Prefecture | 43 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 14 |
| Aomori Prefecture | 48 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 11 |
| Chiba Prefecture | 94 | 45 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 21 |
| Ehime Prefecture | 47 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 26 |
| Fukui Prefecture | 37 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9 |
| Fukuoka Prefecture | 87 | 40 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 12 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 17 |
| Gifu Prefecture | 46 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 10 |
| Gunma Prefecture | 50 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 18 |
| Hiroshima Prefecture | 64 | 32 | 6 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 24 |
| Hyōgo Prefecture | 86 | 27 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 1 | – | 9 | – | – | 0 | 27 |
| Ishikawa Prefecture | 43 | 28 | 2 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 9 |
| Kagawa Prefecture | 41 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Kagoshima Prefecture | 51 | 34 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 11 |
| Kanagawa Prefecture | 105 | 47 | 8 | 23 | 5 | 5 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| Kōchi Prefecture | 37 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 9 |
| Kumamoto Prefecture | 49 | 31 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 13 |
| Kyoto Prefecture | 60 | 28 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 5 | – | 2 | – | – | 0 | 6 |
| Mie Prefecture | 51 | 21 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 10 | 17 |
| Miyazaki Prefecture | 39 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Nagano Prefecture | 57 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | – | 26 |
| Nagasaki Prefecture | 46 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Nara Prefecture | 43 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | – | 4 | – | – | 1 | 6 |
| Niigata Prefecture | 53 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | 16 |
| Ōita Prefecture | 43 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 19 |
| Okayama Prefecture | 55 | 32 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 13 |
| Osaka Prefecture | 88 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 51 | 4 |
| Saga Prefecture | 38 | 25 | 2 | – | 2 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| Saitama Prefecture | 93 | 48 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 4 | – | – | – | 0 | 1 | 18 |
| Shiga Prefecture | 44 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | 10 |
| Shimane Prefecture | 37 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 12 |
| Shizuoka Prefecture | 68 | 35 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 23 |
| Tochigi Prefecture | 50 | 31 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 11 |
| Tokushima Prefecture | 38 | 22 | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 10 |
| Tottori Prefecture | 35 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 11 |
| Toyama Prefecture | 40 | 32 | 1 | – | 2 | – | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 |
| Wakayama Prefecture | 42 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 7 |
| Yamagata Prefecture | 43 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 9 |
| Yamaguchi Prefecture | 47 | 29 | 5 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 9 |
| Yamanashi Prefecture | 37 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 16 |
| Total | 2,277 | 1,158 | 166 | 118 | 99 | 83 | 22 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 536 |
| Source: NHK |||||||||||||

### Mayors of designated cities

| Designated city | Turnout (%) | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hamamatsu | 55.75 | Independent | Yasutomo Suzuki | 195,728 | 55.1 |
| Hamamatsu | 55.75 | Independent | Ryotaro Yamamoto | 134,611 | 37.9 |
| Hamamatsu | 55.75 | Independent | Masashi Nozawa | 25,195 | 7.1 |
| Hiroshima | 36.62 | Independent | Kazumi Matsui | 295,038 | 85.4 |
| Hiroshima | 36.62 | Independent | Kazuyuki Sengo | 27,876 | 8.1 |
| Hiroshima | 36.62 | Independent | Kazuhiro Kaneko | 22,365 | 6.5 |
| Osaka | 52.70 | Osaka Restoration Association | Ichirō Matsui | 660,819 | 58.1 |
| Osaka | 52.70 | Independent | Akira Yanagimoto | 476,351 | 41.9 |
| Sagamihara | 48.91 | Independent | Kentarou Motomura | 132,186 | 46.7 |
| Sagamihara | 48.91 | Independent | Toshio Kayama | 74,456 | 26.3 |
| Sagamihara | 48.91 | Independent | Yuichiro Miyazaki | 40,467 | 14.3 |
| Sagamihara | 48.91 | Independent | Daijiro Yagi | 35,753 | 12.6 |
| Sapporo | 56.25 | Independent | Katsuhiro Akimoto | 634,365 | 70.6 |
| Sapporo | 56.25 | Independent | Tatsuo Watanabe | 264,008 | 29.4 |
| Shizuoka | 48.76 | Independent | Nobuhiro Tanabe | 138,454 | 49.6 |
| Shizuoka | 48.76 | Independent | Shingo Amano | 107,407 | 38.5 |
| Shizuoka | 48.76 | Independent | Katsushi Hayashi | 33,322 | 11.9 |
| Source: NHK |||||||

### Designated city assemblies

| Designated city | Total seats | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Designated city | Total seats | 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 |
| Source: NHK ||||||||||||
