A gubernatorial election was held on 21 February 2010 to elect the next governor of , a

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in northwestern area of the island of

Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surroun ...

Candidates

Genjiro Kaneko was the 65-year-old incumbent. He was first elected in 1998, but decided to retire and supported his vice-governor

Hōdō Nakamura is a Japanese politician and a former governor of Nagasaki Prefecture located in the Kyushu region of Japan. He was re-elected for another four-year term as governor in both 2014 and 2018. Nakamura ran for a fourth term in 2022, but lost the elec ...

. The candidates were: *

, vice-governor, endorsed by LDP and Komeito. *Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, endorsed by DPJ, PNP and SDP. * Atsushi Ōnita, 52, professional wrestler, former member of the House of Councillors for the LDP. *Reiko Oshibuchi. *Takao Fukamachi, supported by the

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. *

Masahiko Yamada is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Fukue, Nagasaki, a Roman Catholic, and graduate of Waseda University , abbreviated as , is a pri ...

, dissident of DPJ. *Mitsuyuki Matsushita.

Results

References

2010 elections in Japan Nagasaki gubernatorial elections {{Japan-election-stub