Hokkaido Government

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• ja.wikipedia.org · checked Oct 12, 2026 Prefectural government and assembly as constituted by the Constitution of Japan Art. 93 and Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947); English names follow the standard usage; seat counts per Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly secretariat, 都道府県議会における議員定数等の状況 (July 2025), read 2026-10-12. For: Hokkaido Government
• pref.hiroshima.lg.jp · checked Oct 12, 2026 Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly secretariat, 都道府県議会における議員定数等の状況 (data at July 2025), read 2026-10-12: assembly seat counts; selection method per Constitution of Japan Art. 93(2) and Local Autonomy Act Arts. 93, 140. Fallback: secondary compilation (not the prefectures' own ordinances), because the 47 ordinances were not individually retrieved; cross-checked against Japanese Wikipedia assembly articles and Wikidata P1342. For: Governor
• ja.wikipedia.org · checked Oct 12, 2026 Japanese Wikipedia, 日本の都道府県知事一覧 (current governors with start and term-expiry dates), read 2026-10-12: current governor and start of continuous tenure. Fallback: Wikipedia/Wikidata, because the National Governors' Association governor database was not retrievable as text; Wikidata head-of-government statements were stale for 6 prefectures (Ishikawa, Fukui, Shizuoka, Kagawa, Nagasaki, Okinawa) and were superseded by the Wikipedia list. For: Naomichi Suzuki as Governor
• nga.gr.jp · checked Oct 12, 2026 National Governors' Association (全国知事会), 都道府県知事ファイル data (search/index.json), read 2026-10-12: current governor term expiry (expire) used as the latest_possible election date; replaces an estimated unified-election date 2027-04-11 or a term-expiry date off by 1-3 days taken from Japanese Wikipedia. For: General election, April 22, 2027
• ja.wikipedia.org · checked Oct 12, 2026 Japanese Wikipedia, 第21回統一地方選挙, read 2026-10-12: 21st unified local elections expected 2027-04-11 and 2027-04-25. Note corrected: no standing statute fixes the "second Sunday of April" (the 2019 prefectural round was on the first Sunday, 2019-04-07); each cycle has its own special-provisions act, which was not found for 2027. Date stays unconfirmed. For: General election, April 22, 2027
• ja.wikipedia.org · checked Oct 12, 2026 Term-expiry date from Japanese Wikipedia, 日本の都道府県知事一覧 (governors) or Japan's four-year terms (Local Autonomy Act Arts. 93, 140), read 2026-10-12; unified-election date derived from the Act on Special Provisions for unified local elections (2nd Sunday of April, 2027-04-11); not yet officially announced. For: General election, April 22, 2027