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The 2023 Osaka City Council election was held following the expiration of the council's four-year term on 9 April 2023, marking the first half of the 20th national unified elections. There were 128 candidates running for 81 seats in the city's 24 wards (each Osaka city ward is one electoral district).
The mayoral election was held on 9 April, 2023 and was won by Yokoyama Hideyuki of the Osaka Ishin (Restoration) Party. 2,214,966 Osaka City residents turned out to vote which included 1,059,525 male voters, and 1,155,441 female voters. Voter turnout was 48.33%, which was a drop from 52.7% in the previous 2019 election.
Osaka City Hall (2016) The Osaka City Council (大阪市会, Ōsaka-shi kai) is the legislature of Osaka City.It is responsible for the "enactment, amendment and repeal of ordinances, budgetary decisions, approval of account settlements, matters of financial importances including acquisition and disposal of city assets, and others."
The 2023 Osaka Prefecture Gubernatorial election is scheduled to be held on 9 April 2023 as part of the 20th unified local elections. [1] Incumbent Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura won re-election to a second term, defeating Taniguchi Mayumi who was supported by the Liberal Democratic Party, Constitutional Democratic Party and several minor candidates.
As one of Japan's three most important cities (the "three capitals", santo: Tokyo City, Osaka City and Kyoto City), wards (ku) as subdivisions of the city were set up in 1878 and are thereby older than the city as a modern administrative unit itself, and when (albeit limited) local autonomy was introduced for other municipalities in the 1880s, autonomy rights in Tokyo City, Osaka City and ...
At age 29, he lost a run for the San Dimas City Council. The year after that, he ran unsuccessfully for L.A. County sheriff, pledging to fix a department whose morale had hit rock bottom.
Though the Ames City Council and school board races are uncontested, the candidates had plenty to say ahead of Election Day. We asked the Ames school board and city council candidates questions ...
"Osaka renewal assembly") of former governor and current Osaka city mayor Tōru Hashimoto; by 2012, the party controls the governorship, a majority in the Osaka assembly, and several municipal institutions including the Osaka city mayor and Osaka city assembly. Osaka is one of the most urbanized and economically developed prefectures; with a ...