2007 Tokyo gubernatorial election

2007 Tokyo gubernatorial election

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Turnout54.35%
 
Shintarō Ishihara 2003.jpg
Candidate Shintarō Ishihara Shirō Asano
Party Independent Independent
Popular vote 2,811,486 1,693,323
Percentage 50.52% 30.43%

Governor before election

Shintarō Ishihara
Independent

Elected Governor

Shintarō Ishihara
Independent

The 2007 Tokyo Gubernatorial elections were held on April 8, 2007 as part of the 16th unified local elections. There were fourteen candidates, among them the incumbent governor Shintaro Ishihara. Most candidates, with the exception of Kurokawa and Yamaguchi, ran as independents,[1] but some were supported by various parties.

  1. ^ Results from Tokyo Metropolitan Election Commission Archived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)