2017 Tokyo prefectural election

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.

2017 Tokyo prefectural election

2 July 2017

All 127 seats in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
64 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Yuriko Koike Hakubun Shimomura
Party Tomin First no Kai Liberal Democratic Komeito
Leader since 31 May 2017
Last election New 59 23
Seats won 49 23 23
Seat change 49 36 0
Popular vote 1,884,029 1,260,101 734,697
Percentage 33.68% 22.53% 13.13%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Jin Matsubara
Party Communist Democratic Tokyo Seikatsusha Network
Last election 17 15 3
Seats won 19 5 1
Seat change 2 10 2
Popular vote 773,722 385,752 69,929
Percentage 13.83% 6.90% 1.25%

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Party Innovation Social Democratic
Last election 2 0
Seats won 1 0
Seat change 1 0
Popular vote 54,016 13,243
Percentage 0.97% 0.24%

Assembly President before election

Shigeo Kawai
Liberal Democratic

Elected Assembly President

Daisuke Ozaki
Tomin First no Kai

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
Incumbents Previous

representatives

New Total (Women)
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 57 49 0 11 60 (6)
Kōmeitō (Kōmei) 22 19 0 4 23 (3)
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 17 11 1 25 37 (17)
Democratic Party (DP) 7 7 6 10 23 (6)
Tomin First no Kai (Tomin) 6 6 4 40 50 (17)
Tokyo Seikatsusha Network (Net) 3 2 0 2 4 (4)
Nippon Ishin no Kai (Ishin) 1 1 1 2 4 (1)
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

 Summary of the 2 July 2017 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election results
Party Candidates Votes % Seats (women)
Tomin First no Kai (都民ファーストの会) 50 1,884,029 33.68 49 (17)
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (自由民主党, Jiyū Minshutō) 60 1,260,101 22.53 23 (1)
New Komeito Party (公明党, Kōmeitō) 23 734,697 13.13 23 (3)
Japanese Communist Party (日本共産党, Nihon Kyōsan-tō) 37 773,722 13.83 19 (13)
Democratic Party of Japan (民進党, Minshutō) 23 385,752 6.90 5 (0)
Tokyo Seikatsusha Network (東京・生活者ネットワーク) 4 69,929 1.25 1 (1)
Nippon Ishin no Kai (日本維新の会) 4 54,016 0.97 1 (0)
Social Democratic Party (社民党 Shamin-tō) 1 13,243 0.24 0
Others 17 43,092 0.77 0
Independents (incl. Tomin endorsements) 40 375,048 6.70 6 (1)
Total (turnout 51.3%) 259 5,593,631 100.00 127 (36)
Source: Tokyo electoral commission
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/CandidatesEndorsements
LDP Kōmei JCP DP Tomin Net Ishin SDP Other Ind.
Chiyoda 1 4 0/1Kokoro 1/1Kōmei 0/1 0/1JCP
Chūō 1 5 0/1Kokoro 1/1Kōmei 0/1 0/21×JCP
Minato 2 6 1/2Kokoro 0/1 1/1Kōmei 0/1 0/1Tomin
Shinjuku 4 7 1/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 0/1 1/1Net 0/1
Bunkyō 2 3 1/1Kokoro 0/1 1/1Kōmei
Taitō 2 5 0/1Kokoro 0/1 1/1Kōmei 1Kōmei&Tomin/2
Sumida 3 5 1/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 0/1 1/1
Kōtō 4 9 1/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 0/1 1/1 0/1 0/21×Tomin
Shinagawa 4 7 0/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 0/1LP&Net 2/2
Meguro 3 5 0/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 1/1Net
Ōta 8 15 2/3Kokoro 2/2Tomin 1/2 0/1LP&Net 2/2 1/1 0/1 0/3
Setagaya 8 18 3/3Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 1/1LP 2/2 0/1DP 0/1 0/1LP 0/2 0/5
Shibuya 2 5 0/1Kokoro 0/1 0/1LP 1/1Kōmei 1/1Kōmei&Tomin
Nakano 3 (-1) 6 0/1Kokoro 1/1Tomin 0/1 1/1LP&Net 1/1 0/1
Suginami 6 12 2/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 0/2LP 2/2 0/1DP 0/2 0/1
Toshima 3 5 0/1Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 0/1LP 1/1
Kita 3 (-1) 5 0/1Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1LP 0/1LP 1/1
Arakawa 2 7 0/1Kokoro 1/1Tomin 0/1 0/1 1Tomin/3
Itabashi 5 10 0/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 1/1LP&Net 2/2 0/1 0/2
Nerima 6 10 1/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 1/2LP 2/2 0/1DP 0/1
Adachi 6 9 1/2Kokoro 2/2Tomin 1/1 0/1LP 2/21×Net 0/1
Katsushika 4 8 1/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 0/1LP&Net 1/1 0/2
Edogawa 5 6 1/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 2/2
Hachiōji 5 9 1/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 0/1LP&Net 2/2 0/1 0/1
Tachikawa 2 4 1/1Kokoro 0/1 1/1Kōmei 0/1Tomin
Musashino 1 3 0/1Kokoro 0/1LP&Net 1/1Kōmei
Mitaka 2 4 0/1Kokoro 0/1 1/1LP&Net 1/1Kōmei
Ōme 1 3 0/1Kokoro 1/1Kōmei&Net 0/1JCP
Fuchū 2 4 0/1Kokoro 0/1 2/2Kōmei&1×Net
Akishima 1 3 0/1Kokoro 0/1 1/1Kōmei&Net
Machida 4 (+1) 8 1/2Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 0/1LP&Net 1/1 0/1 0/1
Koganei 1 5 0/1Kokoro 1/1Kōmei 0/31×JCP
Kodaira 2 4 1/1Kokoro 0/1 0/1LP&Net 1/1Kōmei
Hino 2 4 1/1Kokoro 0/1 1/1Kōmei&Net 0/1
Nishi-Tōkyō 2 4 0/1Kokoro 0/1 1/1Kōmei 1/1Tomin
Nishi-Tama 2 4 1/1Kokoro 0/1 1/1Kōmei&Net 0/1Tomin&Net
Minami-Tama 2 5 0/1Kokoro 0/1 1/1Kōmei&Net 1Tomin/2
Kita-Tama 1 3 6 0/1Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 0/1LP 1/1 0/1
Kita-Tama 2 2 4 0/1Kokoro 0/1LP 1/1Kōmei 1/1JCP, DP, Tomin
Kita-Tama 3 3 (+1) 6 0/1Kokoro 1/1Tomin 1/1 1Tomin&Net/3
Kita-Tama 4 2 4 0/1Kokoro 1/1 1/1Kōmei 0/1Tomin&Net
Islands 1 3 1/1Kokoro 0/1 0/1Kōmei
Total 127 259 23/60 23/23 19/37 5/23 49/50 1/4 1/4 0/1 0/17 6Tomin/40

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

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

  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.
  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.
  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)
  5. NHK News Web (short-term online availability), Shutoken studio, election coverage: Results Archived 2017-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Yomiuri Shimbun: Togisen 2017 Archived 2017-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  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 (in Japanese)
  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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