Election Name: | 2005 Tokyo prefectural election |
Country: | Tokyo |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2001 Tokyo prefectural election |
Previous Year: | 2001 |
Next Election: | 2009 Tokyo prefectural election |
Next Year: | 2009 |
Seats For Election: | All 127 seats in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 64 |
Turnout: | 43.99%(6.09%) |
Election Date: | 3 July 2005 |
Leader1: | Eita Yashiro |
Party1: | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
Last Election1: | 53 |
Seats Before1: | 53 |
Seats1: | 48 |
Seat Change1: | 5 |
Popular Vote1: | 1,339,548 |
Percentage1: | 30.7% |
Leader2: | Banri Kaieda |
Party2: | Democratic Party (Japan, 1998) |
Last Election2: | 22 |
Seats Before2: | 22 |
Seats2: | 35 |
Seat Change2: | 13 |
Popular Vote2: | 1,070,893 |
Percentage2: | 24.5% |
Leader3: | Natsuo Yamaguchi |
Party3: | Komeito |
Last Election3: | 23 |
Seats Before3: | 22 |
Seats3: | 23 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 786,292 |
Percentage3: | 18.0% |
Image4: | 共産 |
Party4: | Japanese Communist Party |
Leader4: | Yoshiharu Wakabayashi |
Last Election4: | 15 |
Seats Before4: | 15 |
Seats4: | 13 |
Seat Change4: | 2 |
Popular Vote4: | 680,200 |
Percentage4: | 15.6% |
Image5: | ネット |
Leader5: | Mitsuko Nishizaki |
Party5: | Tokyo Seikatsusha Network |
Last Election5: | 6 |
Seats Before5: | 6 |
Seats5: | 3 |
Seat Change5: | 3 |
Popular Vote5: | 181,020 |
Percentage5: | 4.1% |
Assembly President | |
Before Election: | Shigeru Uchida |
Before Party: | Liberal Democratic Party of Japan |
After Election: | Chuuichi Kawashima |
After Party: | Liberal Democratic Party of Japan |
Prefectural elections were held in Tokyo for the city's Metropolitan Assembly on 3 July 2005. The election was a great success for the Democratic Party of Japan which won 16 additional seats, closing in on the Liberal Democratic Party.
|-! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" |Parties! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Candidates! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats|-| style="text-align:left;" |Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (自由民主党, Jiyū Minshutō)| style="text-align:right;" | 57| style="text-align:right;" | 1,339,548| style="text-align:right;" | 30.7| style="text-align:right;" | 48|-| style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Party of Japan (民主党, Minshutō)| style="text-align:right;" | 51| style="text-align:right;" | 1,070,893| style="text-align:right;" | 24.5| style="text-align:right;" | 35|-| style="text-align:left;" |New Komeito party (公明党, Kōmeitō)| style="text-align:right;" | 23| style="text-align:right;" | 786,292| style="text-align:right;" | 18.0| style="text-align:right;" | 23|-| style="text-align:left;" |Japanese Communist Party (日本共産党, Nihon Kyōsan-tō)| style="text-align:right;" | 43| style="text-align:right;" | 680,200| style="text-align:right;" | 15.6| style="text-align:right;" | 13|-| style="text-align:left;" |Social Democratic Party (社民党 Shamin-tō)| style="text-align:right;" | 1| style="text-align:right;" | 10,165| style="text-align:right;" | 0.2| style="text-align:right;" | 0|-| style="text-align:left;" |Tokyo Seikatsusha Network (東京・生活者ネットワーク)| style="text-align:right;" | 10| style="text-align:right;" | 181,020| style="text-align:right;" | 4.1| style="text-align:right;" | 3|-| style="text-align:left;" |Gyokaku 110-ban (行革110番)| style="text-align:right;" | 1| style="text-align:right;" | 24,259| style="text-align:right;" | 0.6| style="text-align:right;" | 1|-| style="text-align:left;" | Others| style="text-align:right;" | 4| style="text-align:right;" | 27,784| style="text-align:right;" | 0.6| style="text-align:right;" | 0|-| style="text-align:left;" | Independents| style="text-align:right;" | 30| style="text-align:right;" | 248,999| style="text-align:right;" | 5.7| style="text-align:right;" | 4|-|style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 43.99%)|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 220|width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 4,435,435|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 100.00|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 127|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan=4 |Sources:Tokyo electoral commission: 投開票結果, JANJAN: 東京都議会議員選挙, Asahi Shimbun: http://www.asahi.com/politics/2005togisen/chart/05070403.html|}NB: Results are incomplete due to lack of sources.