2019 Kanagawa prefectural election

The 2019 Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly Election (Japanese: 2019年神奈川県議会議員選挙, romanized: 2019-nen Kanagawa-ken Gikaigiin Senkyo) was held on 7 April 2019 to elect the 105 members of the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly.^[1]

2019 Kanagawa prefectural election

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All 105 seats in the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly 53 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	41.16% (0.65%)
First party Second party   Leader Hachiro Okonogi Tomoko Abe Party Liberal Democratic CDP Seats before 44 11 Seats after 47 23 Seat change 3 12 Popular vote 1,051,998 446,843 Percentage 42.80% 18.18%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Isamu Ueda Satoru Tamogami Party Komeito Communist Seats before 10 6 Seats after 8 5 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 118,827 194,986 Percentage 4.83% 7.93%
Post-election composition of the assembly by political party
Governor before election Yūji Kuroiwa Independent Elected Governor Yūji Kuroiwa Independent

Overview

The 105 seats of the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly are up for election every four years.^[2] For the 2019 election, 154 candidates ran for the 105 seats in 48 electoral districts. A total of 13 electoral districts saw no voting as the candidates in these elections face no opposition.^[3]

Results

Election results^[4]

Party		Votes	Percentage	Seats	Change
	Liberal Democratic Party	1,051,998	42.80%	47	3
	Constitutional Democratic Party	446,843	18.18%	23	12
	Komeito	118,827	4.83%	8	2
	Japanese Communist Party	194,986	7.93%	5	1
	Democratic Party For the People	158,849	6.46%	5	3
	Kanagawa Network Movement	42,325	1.72%	1
	Party of Hope	19,094	0.78%	0
	Liberal Party	6,262	0.25%	0
	Other parties	12,099	0.49%	0
	Independent	406,791	16.55%	16	4
Total		2,458,074	100.00%	105