2016 Tokyo prefectural by-election

A by-election was held on 31 July 2016 to fill vacancies in four districts of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. The elections were held simultaneously with the gubernatorial election. Nominations for the election were announced on 22 July 2016.http://www.senkyo.metro.tokyo.jp/uploads/H28tochiji_press.pdf 東京都知事選挙及び東京都議会員補欠選挙（新宿区、台東区、大田区及び渋谷区の各選挙区）の選挙期日等の決定について About the determination of the election date for Tokyo gubernatorial election and Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly by-election (Shinjuku, Daito, Ota and Shibuya districts) Japanese Tokyo Electoral Commission 17 June 2016 15 July 2016 5 July 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160705014910/http://www.senkyo.metro.tokyo.jp/uploads/H28tochiji_press.pdf dead Liberal Democratic Party candidates won all four elections.http://www.senkyo.metro.tokyo.jp/uploads/h28togiho_kaihyo_tokuhyo.pdf 東京都議会議員補欠選挙　候補者別得票数（全候補） Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly By-Election: Votes received per candidate (all candidates) Japanese Tokyo Electoral Commission 31 July 2016 1 August 2016 Ota district The Ota district, which corresponds with Ota city, elects eight members to the 127-member assembly. Ken Tanaka, a second-term Democratic Party member who placed 1st in the 2009 electionhttp://www.senkyo.metro.tokyo.jp/election/togikai-all/togikai-sokuhou2009/result/ 都議会議員選挙（平成21年7月12日執行）開票結果 Tokyo prefectural election (12 July 2009) Results Tokyo Electoral Commission 15 July 2016 Japanese and 7th in the 2013 election,http://www.senkyo.metro.tokyo.jp/election/togikai-all/togikai-sokuhou2013/result/ 東京都議会議員選挙（平成25年6月23日）開票結果 Tokyo prefectural election (23 June 2013) Results Tokyo Electoral Commission 15 July 2016 Japanese resigned from his seat in the assembly to contest the next national general election. In the closest contest of the four districts, LDP candidate Hiroyuki Yamamori defeated Democratic Party candidate Ai Mori by 4,141 votes (1.32%). Tokyo prefectural by-election, 2016 (Ota District)http://www.senkyo.metro.tokyo.jp/uploads/h28togiho_kaihyo_uchiwake.pdf 東京都議会議員補欠選挙　開票結果内訳 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly By-Election Breakdown of Results Tokyo Electoral Commission 1 August 2016 Japanesehttp://www.senkyo.metro.tokyo.jp/uploads/h28togiho_touhyo.pdf 東京都議会議員補欠選挙　投票結果 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly By-Election Turnout Tokyo Electoral Commission 1 August 2016 Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Hiroyuki Yamamori 135,233 43.11 Democratic Party (Japan, 2016) Ai Mori 131,092 41.79 Independent (politician) Koichi Mizoguchi 47,400 15.11 313,725 91.85 27,844 8.15 341,569 57.29 +12.79 Shibuya district The Shibuya district, which corresponds with Shibuya city, elects two members to the assembly. Liberal Democrat Hideko Murakami, who was serving her fourth term in the assembly since being first elected in the November 2003 by-election, resigned from the assembly to contest the Shibuya mayoral election that was held on 26 April 2015, in which she placed third.https://www.city.shibuya.tokyo.jp/eac/voting/20150426kai_k.html 平成27年4月26日執行　渋谷区長選挙開票速報 26 April 2015 Shibuya Mayoral Election Results Japanese 15 July 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160728060554/http://www.city.shibuya.tokyo.jp/eac/voting/20150426kai_k.html 28 July 2016 dead Tokyo prefectural by-election, 2016 (Shibuya District) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Kazushige Maeda 45,807 46.30 Democratic Party (Japan, 2016) Hiroki Hamada 35,559 35.94 Japanese Communist Party Yuji Orikasa 17,576 17.76 98,942 92.92 7,540 7.08 106,482 57.17 +21.51 Shinjuku district The Shinjuku district, which corresponds with Shinjuku city, elects four members to the 127-member assembly. Kenichi Yoshizumi resigned from the assembly to contest the November 2014 Shinjuku mayoral election, which he won. Tokyo prefectural by-election, 2016 (Shinjuku District) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Sachie Daimon 55,599 40.06 Democratic Party (Japan, 2016) Masami Inotsume 33,983 24.49 Independent (politician) Tsukasa Moriguchi 24,664 17.77 Japanese Communist Party Takeki Fujiwara 24,529 17.68 138,775 92.47 11,308 7.53 150,083 56.97 +14.74 Taito district The Taito district, which corresponds with Taito city, elects two members to the 127-member assembly. Liberal Democrat Yukuo Hattori, who was serving his third term in the assembly,http://go2senkyo.com/seijika/77042 服部 征夫（ハットリ ユクオ）自由民主党 Yukuo Hattori LDP Japanese go2senkyo.com 15 July 2016 resigned to contest the Taito mayoral election on 1 March 2015, which he won with 47.9% of the vote in a six-candidate contest.http://www.city.taito.tokyo.jp/index/kusei/senkyo/senkyokekka/kucho.files/27kuchokekka.pdf 平成27年3月1日執行 台東区長選挙 1 March 2015 Taito Mayoral Election Japanese 2 Taito Electoral Commission 15 July 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160816231145/http://www.city.taito.tokyo.jp/index/kusei/senkyo/senkyokekka/kucho.files/27kuchokekka.pdf 16 August 2016 dead Tokyo prefectural by-election, 2016 (Taito District) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Hiroshi Izumi 53,920 62.57 Japanese Communist Party Shigeru Koyanagi 32,252 37.43 86,172 92.20 7,290 7.80 93,462 59.43 +16.91 References Category:2016 elections in Japan Category:July 2016 in Japan 2016 Category:2016 in Tokyo