Aichi Prefectural Assembly
| Aichi Prefectural Assembly 愛知県議会 Aichi Kengikai | |
|---|---|
| Type | |
| Type | |
| History | |
| Founded | May 10, 1879[1] |
| Leadership | |
President (gichō)[2] |
Hirofumi Kubota, Liberal Democratic Party |
Vice President (fuku-gichō)[2] |
Tadashi Suzuki, Liberal Democratic Party |
| Seats | 103 |
| Elections | |
| Single non-transferable vote | |
Last election | 2011 |
The Aichi Prefectural Assembly (愛知県議会 Aichi-kengikai) is the legislative assembly of Aichi Prefecture.
Its 103 members are elected in 57 districts by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) to four-year terms.
The assembly is responsible for enacting and amending prefectural ordinances, voting on important administrative appointments made by the governor including the vice-governors and approving the budget – Aichi has been in recent years the only prefecture besides Tokyo with a "fiscal strength index" (zaiseiryoku shisū) above 1, i.e. it is able to cover its calculated expenses with its own revenues.
Current composition
The last elections were held in the unified local elections in April 2011: the Liberal Democratic Party remained strongest party with 49 seats but fell short of a majority without independents, former Democrat and Nagoya City mayor Takashi Kawamura's Genzei Nippon ("Tax cuts Japan") and former Liberal Democrat and Aichi governor Hideaki Ōmura's Nippon-ichi Aichi no Kai ("Aichi First in Japan Association") together won 18 seats. The Democratic Party was reduced to 26 seats – down from 38 in 2007 – in one of its few (relative) strongholds in local politics. Kōmeitō won six seats, four seats went to independents. The Japanese Communist Party has not been represented in the assembly since 2003.
As of March 2014, the assembly is composed as follows:[3]
| Composition of the Aichi Prefectural Assembly | |
|---|---|
| Parliamentary group | Seats |
| LDP Aichi | 47 |
| DPJ Aichi | 23 |
| Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi | 16 |
| Kōmeitō Aichi | 6 |
| Independents | 4 |
| Total | 96 (7 vacant seats) |
Electoral districts
As in all prefectures, most electoral districts correspond to wards of "major cities designated by government ordinance" (Nagoya City), ordinary cities and former counties. 28 districts are single-member districts where the single non-transferable vote becomes equivalent to first-past-the-post voting and a plurality of votes suffices to win 100% of seats. 20 districts are two-member districts where usually – depending on nomination strategy and local strength of third parties – an even seat split between the major two parties is likely (in the absence of third parties and assuming realistic nomination strategies, winning both seats would require at least a two-thirds majority of votes). Nine districts elect three or more assembly members.
| Electoral districts[4] | Incumbents (as of March 2014)[5] | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Municipalities, Nagoya City wards | Magnitude | |
| Nagoya City Chikusa Ward | Chikusa Ward, Nagoya City | 2 | Yūko Higashi (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) |
| vacant | |||
| Nagoya City Higashi ("East") Ward | Higashi Ward, Nagoya City | 1 | Masahiko Andō (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 2nd term) |
| Nagoya City Kita ("North") Ward | Kita Ward, Nagoya City | 3 | Kumeo Arafuka (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) |
| Akiyoshi Inukai (Kōmeitō, 1st term) | |||
| Hisashi Tsukamoto (DPJ, 9th term) | |||
| Nagoya City Nishi ("West") Ward | Nishi Ward, Nagoya City | 2 | vacant |
| Kōji Handa (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) | |||
| Nagoya City Nakamura Ward | Nakamura Ward, Nagoya City | 2 | Mitsumu Teranishi (LDP, 1st term) |
| Noboru Matsuyama (Independent, 7th term) | |||
| Nagoya City Naka ("Central") Ward | Naka Ward, Nagoya City | 1 | Atsushi Satō (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) |
| Nagoya City Shōwa Ward | Shōwa Ward, Nagoya City | 2 | Kikue Katō (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) |
| Tomomi Taniguchi (DPJ, 2nd term) | |||
| Nagoya City Mizuho Ward | Mizuho Ward, Nagoya City | 2 | Ichirō Hirosawa (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) |
| Tarō Kawashima (LDP, 2nd term) | |||
| Nagoya City Atsuta Ward | Atsuta Ward, Nagoya City | 1 | Yoshiaki Kajiyama (DPJ, 3rd term) |
| Nagoya City Nakagawa Ward | Nakagawa Ward, Nagoya City | 3 | Hidekazu Kitō (Kōmeitō, 6th term) |
| Atsushi Nishikawa (DPJ, 3rd term) | |||
| Kazuhito Inamoto (Independent, 1st term) | |||
| Nagoya City Minato Ward | Minato Ward, Nagoya City | 2 | Noboru Hiraiwa (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) |
| Hirobumi Naoe (LDP, 8th term) | |||
| Nagoya City Minami ("South") Ward | Minami Ward, Nagoya City | 2 | Tomoko Akae (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) |
| Tatsuo Itō (LDP, 2nd term) | |||
| Nagoya City Moriyama Ward | Moriyama Ward, Nagoya City | 2 | Katsuhiro Tanabe (LDP, 4th term) |
| Rumi Noda (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) | |||
| Nagoya City Midori Ward | Midori Ward, Nagoya City | 3 | Yoshizumi Miyachi (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) |
| Tomomi Nakamura (DPJ, 7th term) | |||
| Noboru Watanabe (LDP, 2nd term) | |||
| Nagoya City Meitō Ward | Meitō Ward, Nagoya City | 2 | Isao Miyake (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) |
| Takaya Tsutsui (LDP, 10th term) | |||
| Nagoya City Tenpaku Ward | Tenpaku Ward, Nagoya City | 2 | vacant |
| Kan Susaki (LDP, 2nd term) | |||
| Toyohashi City | Toyohashi City | 5 | Akikatsu Watarai (Kōmeitō, 4th term) |
| Mitsuo Kokubo (Independent, 5th term) | |||
| Takamasa Suzuki (LDP, 4th term) | |||
| Yoshitaka Asai (DPJ, 2nd term) | |||
| Mitsuyo Kashiwaguma (DPJ, 7th term) | |||
| Okazaki City | Okazaki City | 4 | Nagashi Nishikubo (DPJ, 1st term) |
| Akio Aoyama (LDP, 6th term) | |||
| Yoshitaka Nakane (LDP, 1st term) | |||
| Masato Suzuki (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) | |||
| Ichinomiya City | Ichinomiya City | 5 | Toshirō Kitō (Kōmeitō, 3rd term) |
| Masako Takahashi (DPJ, 3rd term) | |||
| Shinji Iwamura (LDP, 6th term) | |||
| vacant | |||
| Masato Yoshida (LDP, 3rd term) | |||
| Seto City | Seto City | 2 | Makoto Shimakura (LDP, 1st term) |
| Masanari Nagae (DPJ, 2nd term) | |||
| Handa City | Handa City | 2 | Ryōzō Kondō (DPJ, 6th term) |
| Jun'ichi Horisaki (LDP, 1st term) | |||
| Kasugai City | Kasugai City | 4 | Hiromi Kanbe (LDP, 3rd term) |
| Katsundo Itō (LDP, 3rd term) | |||
| Hideo Ichikawa (Kōmeitō, 1st term) | |||
| Takemasa Hibi (DPJ, 1st term) | |||
| Toyokawa City | Toyokawa City | 3 | Isao Kobayashi (LDP, 5th term) |
| Hiroki Fujiwara (LDP, 1st term) | |||
| Yasushi Nonaka (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) | |||
| Tsushima City | Tsushima City | 1 | Harumi Nakano (LDP, 3rd term) |
| Hekinan City | Hekinan City | 1 | Hideo Kobayashi (LDP, 7th term) |
| Kariya City | Kariya City | 2 | vacant |
| Masahiko Nagai (DPJ, 1st term) | |||
| Toyota City | Toyota City | 5 | Susumu Nakamura (DPJ, 2nd term) |
| Takashi Miura (LDP, 4th term) | |||
| Toshihiko Kurachi (LDP, 11th term) | |||
| Yoshikazu Kotama (DPJ, 1st term) | |||
| Takeyuki Kojima (Kōmeitō, 4th term) | |||
| Anjō City | Anjō City | 2 | Keisuke Naka (DPJ, 3rd term) |
| vacant | |||
| Nishio City | Nishio City w/o former Hazu County | 2 | Man'ichirō Kawakami (LDP, 7th term) |
| Masatoshi Inagaki (DPJ, 1st term) | |||
| Gamagōri City | Gamagōri City | 1 | Tsunetoshi Hida (LDP, 1st term) |
| Inuyama City | Inuyama City | 1 | Yoshinobu Hara (LDP, 2nd term) |
| Tokoname City | Tokoname City | 1 | Marushirō Sawada (LDP, 4th term) |
| Kōnan City | Kōnan City | 1 | Yūji Okumura (LDP, 4th term) |
| Komaki City | Komaki City | 2 | Tomoya Yamashita (LDP, 1st term) |
| vacant | |||
| Inazawa City | Inazawa City | 2 | Hirofumi Kubota (LDP, 5th term) |
| Jun Suzuki (DPJ, 2nd term) | |||
| Shinshiro City and North Shitara County | Shinshiro City Shitara Town Tōei Town Toyone Village | 1 | Osamu Mineno (LDP, 2nd term) |
| Tōkai City | Tōkai City | 2 | Kazunori Saba (DPJ, 1st term) |
| Hakushi Jinno (LDP, 3rd term) | |||
| Ōbu City | Ōbu City | 1 | Katsuhiko Fukaya (LDP, 4th term) |
| Chita City | Chita City | 1 | Kazushi Satō (LDP, 1st term) |
| Chiryū City | Chiryū City | 1 | Takanobu Shibata (Independent, 2nd term) |
| OwariAsahi City | Owariasahi City | 1 | Shūzō Aoyama (LDP, 1st term) |
| Takahama City | Takahama City | 1 | Takashige Sugiura (LDP, 3rd term) |
| Iwakura City | Iwakura City | 1 | Toshinao Takakuwa (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 1st term) |
| Toyoake City | Toyoake City | 1 | Kenji Sakata (LDP, 2nd term) |
| Nisshin City and Aichi County | Nisshin City Tōgō Town | 1 | Hirohito Kondō (LDP, 1st term) |
| Tahara City | Tahara City | 1 | Hiroshi Yamamoto (LDP, 1st term) |
| Aisai City | Aisai City | 1 | Goroku Yokoi (LDP, 4th term) |
| Kiyosu City, Kita-Nagoya City, West Kasugai County | Kiyosu City Kitanagoya City Toyoyama Town | 2 | Tomio Mizuno (LDP, 8th term) |
| Toshiki Andō (DPJ, 2nd term) | |||
| Yatomi City | Yatomi City | 1 | Seimei Andō (LDP, 1st term) |
| Miyoshi City | Miyoshi City | 1 | Tasuku Oyama (DPJ, 2nd term) |
| Nagakute City | Nagakute City | 1 | Yoshiki Ishii (LDP, 2nd term) |
| Niwa County | Ōguchi Town Fusō Town | 1 | Yoshihiro Suzuki (LDP, 2nd term) |
| Ama County | Ama City Ōharu Town Kanie Town Tobishima Village | 2 | Aporo Ishizuka (LDP, 1st term) |
| Setsuo Kurokawa (DPJ, 6th term) | |||
| Chita County 1 | Agui Town Higashiura Town | 1 | Yōsuke Kawai (DPJ, 1st term) |
| Chita County 2 | Minamichita Town Mihama Town Taketoyo Town | 1 | Toshihisa Morishita (LDP, 2nd term) |
| Hazu County | Nishio City: former Isshiki, Kira and Hazu Towns | 1 | Kiyoharu Asai (Genzei Nippon-ichi Aichi, 3rd term) |
| Nukata County | Kōta Town | 1 | Tadashi Suzuki (LDP, 3rd term) |
References
- ↑ Aichi Prefectural Assembly: http://www.pref.aichi.jp/gikai/hiastory/index.html 愛知県議会の歴史
- 1 2 正副議長
- ↑ Aichi Prefectural Assembly: 県議会議員紹介
- ↑ Aichi Prefectural Government: Prefectural electoral districts
- ↑ Assembly members by district
External links
- Aichi Prefectural Assembly (Japanese)
- Aichi electoral commission (Japanese)
Political parties
- LDP Aichi Prefectural Assembly group, official blog (Japanese)
- DPJ Aichi Prefectural Assembly group, official website (Japanese)
- Genzei Nippon, official website (Japanese)
- Aichi Nippon-ichi no Kai, official website (Japanese)
- Kōmeitō Aichi Prefectural Assembly group, official website (Japanese)
- Prefectural federations or regional websites of national parties currently not represented in the Aichi assembly