2023 Nara gubernatorial election

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9 April 2023

2027 →

Turnout

54.82%

6.33%


Nominee	Makoto Yamashita	Shou Hiraki	Shōgo Arai
Party	Ishin	Independent	Independent
Popular vote	266,404	196,729	97,033
Percentage	44.41%	32.80%	16.18%

Governor before election

Shōgo Arai
Independent

Elected Governor

Makoto Yamashita
Ishin

The 2023 Nara gubernatorial election was held on 9 April 2023 as part of the 20th unified elections to elect the next governor of Nara Prefecture, Japan. The election was close, with Makoto Yamashita of the Japan Innovation Party winning with a 44.41% minority, defeating incumbent Liberal Democratic Party candidate Shōgo Arai. This marks the first time a member of the Japan Restoration Party was elected outside of Osaka Prefecture.^[1]

References

^ "Nippon Ishin wins Nara governor election, first outside Osaka". ASAHI SHIMBUN. 10 April 2023.

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Prefectural governor	Hokkaido Kanagawa Fukui Osaka Nara Tottori Shimane Tokushima Oita
Prefectural assembly	Hokkaidō Aomori Akita Yamagata Tochigi Gunma Saitama Chiba Kanagawa Niigata Toyama Ishikawa Fukui Nagano Yamanashi Shizuoka Aichi Gifu Mie Shiga Kyōto Ōsaka Hyōgo Nara Wakayama Tottori Shimane Okayama Hiroshima Yamaguchi Tokushima Kagawa Ehime Kōchi Fukuoka Saga Nagasaki Kumamoto Ōita Miyazaki Kagoshima
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