The 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
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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
is a regional political party based in Nagoya, Japan and led by the mayor of Nagoya, Takashi Kawamura. The party was formed by Kawamura in April 2010. After briefly holding several seats in the national legislature, the party merged at the nat ...
("Tax cuts Japan") and former Liberal Democrat and Aichi governor
Hideaki Ōmura
is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Aichi Prefecture.
Overviews
He was a former member of the Liberal Democratic Party, also a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Hekinan a ...
'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
, formerly New Komeito and abbreviated NKP, is a conservative political party in Japan founded by lay members of the Buddhist Japanese new religious movement Soka Gakkai in 1964. Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalit ...
won six seats, four seats went to independents. The
Japanese Communist Party
The is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan. With approximately 270,000 members belonging to 18,000 branches, it is one of the largest non-governing Communis ...
has not been represented in the assembly since 2003.
As of March 2014, the assembly is composed as follows:
[Aichi Prefectural Assembly]
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Electoral districts
As in all prefectures, most electoral districts correspond to wards of "major cities designated by government ordinance" (Nagoya City), ordinary cities
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and former counties
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. 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.
References
External links
Aichi Prefectural Assembly
Aichi electoral commission
Political parties
LDP Aichi Prefectural Assembly group, official blog
DPJ Aichi Prefectural Assembly group, official website
Genzei Nippon, official website
Aichi Nippon-ichi no Kai, official website
Kōmeitō Aichi Prefectural Assembly group, official website
* Prefectural federations or regional websites of national parties currently not represented in the Aichi assembly
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Japanese Communist Party, Aichi Committee
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Social Democratic Party, Aichi Prefectural Federation
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Politics of Aichi Prefecture
Prefectural assemblies of Japan
1879 establishments in Japan