2023 Japanese unified local elections

The 2023 Japanese unified local elections were held across the country on 9 and 23 April 2023. In total 15,047 candidates were elected in 1,008 races with a high of 1,685 in Hokkaido and a low of 1 in Okinawa.

41 Prefectural Assembly elections
9 April 2023 (2023-04-09)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Fumio Kishida Kenta Izumi Natsuo Yamaguchi
Party LDP CDP Komeito
Leader since 29 September 2021 30 November 2021 8 September 2009
Last election 1158 seats Did not exist 166 seats
Seats won 1,153 185 169
Seat change 5 New 3
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Nobuyuki Baba Kazuo Shii Yuichiro Tamaki
Party Ishin JCP DPP
Leader since 27 August 2022 24 November 2000 11 September 2020
Last election 67 seats 99 seats Did not exist
Seats won 124 75 9
Seat change 57 24 New
  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Manabu Matsuda Mizuho Fukushima
Party Sanseitō Social Democratic
Leader since 15 July 2022 23 February 2020
Last election Did not exist 22 seats
Seats won 4 3
Seat change New 19

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) scored a comfortable victory. Six LDP (and Komei) endorsed candidates won the governorship. The LDP also managed to win more than half of all the prefectural assembly seats in the prefecture that held elections.

Major victories were also won by Nippon Ishin no Kai. In addition to winning in its home base of Osaka, Ishin also won the contest for governor of Nara and increased the number of seats it now holds in neighboring prefectures. The party secured majorities in the Osaka prefectural and municipal assemblies for the first time ever, and they even took home six seats in the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly.

Turnouts this month were at record lows for all elections with the exception of the Hakodate mayoral contest and mayoral and assembly races in Tokyo wards which were higher than the last election but still did not top 50%.

This maintains a pattern in Japan, where fewer and fewer people are casting ballots ever since the LDP took back control in 2012.

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