Iwate Prefectural Assembly

The Iwate Prefectural Assembly (岩手県議会, Iwate-ken Gikai) is the prefectural parliament of Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Iwate Prefectural Assembly 岩手県議会 Iwate-ken Gikai
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	1878 (1878) 1947 (1947) (current local autonomy law)
Leadership
President (gichō)	Hiroshi Sasaki (佐々木博, Sasaki Hiroshi)[1], Democratic Party since September 2011
Vice President (fuku-gichō)	Iwami Yanagimura (柳村岩見, Yanagimura Iwami)[1], Liberal Democratic Party since September 2011
Seats	48 assembly members
Website
www.pref.iwate.jp/~hp0731/

Its 48 members are elected every four years in 16 districts by single non-transferable vote.

The assembly is responsible for enacting and amending prefectural ordinances, approving the budget and voting on important administrative appointments made by the governor including the vice governors.

Iwate is one of three prefectures whose assemblies are currently led by the DJP majority. The others are the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly and the Mie Prefectural Assembly.

Members

As of 20 September 2019:^[2]

Constituency	Members	Party
Morioka	Junko Chiba	Iwate Kenmin Club
Morioka	Yoshinori Karuishi	Kibō Iwate
Morioka	Masanobu Kobayashi	Komeito
Morioka	Kazuko Konishi	Social Democratic Party
Morioka	Shin Saitō	Japanese Communist Party
Morioka	Kōsuke Takahashi	LDP
Morioka	Tajima Takahashi	Iwate Shinseikai
Morioka	Yasuki Uehara [ja]	Independent
Morioka	Hiromasa Yonai	LDP
Morioka	Keiko Yoshida	Iwate Shinseikai
Miyako	Seishi Itō	Kibō Iwate
Miyako	Yoshihiko Jōnai	LDP
Miyako	Nobukazu Sasaki	LDP
Ōfunato	Sakari Chiba	Iwate Shinseikai
Hanamaki	Shinkō Kawamura	LDP
Hanamaki	Yukihiro Kimura	Social Democratic Party
Hanamaki	Shin Nasukawa	Kibō Iwate
Hanamaki	Jun'ichi Sasaki	Kibō Iwate
Kitakami	Keiko Satō	Kibō Iwate
Kitakami	Toshinobu Sekine	Kibō Iwate
Kitakami	Hajime Takahashi	Kibō Iwate
Kitakami	Yasuyuki Takahashi	LDP
Kuji	Gen Iwaki	Kibō Iwate
Kuji	Hitoshi Nakatai	Iwate Shinseikai
Tōno	Katsuko Kudō	Independent
Ichinoseki	Tadashi Iizawa	Iwate Kenmin Club
Ichinoseki	Makoto Iwabuchi	Kibō Iwate
Ichinoseki	Hiroyuki Kanzaki	LDP
Ichinoseki	Tomokazu Sasaki	Iwate Shinseikai
Ichinoseki	Ichirō Takada	Japanese Communist Party
Rikuzentakata	Shigemitsu Sasaki	LDP
Kamaishi	Tomokazu Iwasaki	LDP
Kamaishi	Kyō Ono	Iwate Shinseikai
Ninohe	Ō Itsukaichi	Kibō Iwate
Ninohe	Fumitomo Matsukura	LDP
Hachimantai	Tsutō Chiba	LDP
Hachimantai	Katsuhiro Kudō	Iwate Kenmin Club
Ōshū	Hideyuki Chiba	Kibō Iwate
Ōshū	Mitsuko Chida	Japanese Communist Party
Ōshū	Hiroshi Gōkon	Kibō Iwate
Ōshū	Hironori Kanno	Kibō Iwate
Ōshū	Tsutomu Sasaki	Iwate Kenmin Club
Takizawa	Huxel Mihoko	Iwate Kenmin Club
Takizawa	Satoru Takeda	LDP
Takizawa	Makoto Yanagimura	Kibō Iwate
Shiwa	Katsunori Tamura	Iwate Shinseikai
Shiwa	Tsutomu Usuzawa	LDP
Kunohe	Daisuke Kudō	Iwate Shinseikai