State or region
Member of the Prefectural Assembly
- Japanese: 府議会議員
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Elected
- Exact method
- Elected by the voters of the prefecture from electoral districts set by prefectural ordinance, for a four-year term (Constitution of Japan Art. 93(2); Local Autonomy Act Art. 93; Public Offices Election Act). Number of seats fixed by prefectural ordinance (Local Autonomy Act Art. 90).
- Seats
- 79
Next vote
Sources
- pref.hiroshima.lg.jp · checked 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: Member of the Prefectural Assembly
- ja.wikipedia.org · checked Official Japanese names of prefectures, assemblies and offices (Local Autonomy Act); governors' names as given in Japanese Wikipedia, 日本の都道府県知事一覧, read 2026-10-12. For: Member of the Prefectural Assembly in Japanese
- ja.wikipedia.org · checked 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 11, 2027
- ja.wikipedia.org · checked 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 11, 2027
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