A gubernatorial election was held on 29 July 2012 to elect the next governor of Yamaguchi (山口県, Yamaguchi-ken), a prefecture of Japan in the Chūgoku region of the main island of Honshu.[1]
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| Turnout | 45.32  8.11 | ||
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Sekinari Nii (LDP), who had held office since 1996, did not stand for re-election.
Candidates
edit- Shigetaru Yamamoto, former bureaucrat of the ministry of Transports, endorsed by LDP and New Komeito.
- Tetsunari Iida, engineer, anti-nuclear and pro renewable energy. Backed by the SDP and the JCP.
- Tsutomu Takamura, former member of the House of Representatives for the DPJ.
- Shigeyuki Miwa, physician, former Director of Health Promotion Division of the Yamaguchi Prefecture.
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Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal Democratic | Shigetaru Yamamoto | 252,461 | 47.57 |  23.07
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| Social Democratic | Tetsunari Iida | 185,654 | 34.98 | 5.62
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| Democratic | Tsutomu Takamura | 55,418 | 10.44 | ||
| Shigeyuki Miwa | 37,150 | 7.00 | |||
| Turnout | 537.077 | 45.32 | 8.11
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| Registered electors | 1,185,190 | ||||
| Liberal Democratic hold | Swing | ||||
References
edit- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Yamaguchi-ken" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 1039-1040, p. 1039, at Google Books; "Chūgoku" at p. 127, p. 127, at Google Books.
- ^ "Japan anti-nuclear candidate loses governor race, changes debate". Eco-Business.
- ^ "平成24年7月29日執行 山口県知事選挙 確定開票状況 - 山口県ホームページ". www-pref-yamaguchi-lg-jp.translate.goog.
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