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In the Kyoto gubernatorial election held on April 11, a progressive candidate put up a great fight against the incumbent governor backed by the Democratic, the Liberal Democratic, and the Komei parties. The number of votes cast for Mon Yusuke of the Association for a Democratic Kyoto Government in which the Japanese Communist Party also participated was 307,826 (36.74% of all votes) which was 38,086, or 2.36 percentage points more than the number of votes that the associationfs candidate received in the previous election four years ago. His rival Yamada Keiji obtained 529,927 votes, but this was a decrease of more than 2 percentage points from the previous election. Asked by reporters about the Kyoto gubernatorial election result, JCP Secretarial Head Ichida Tadayoshi on April 12 made the following comment: gIn Kyoto, the DPJ, LDP, and Komei parties formed the gall-are-ruling partiesh bloc in the prefectural assembly. Kyoto is ranked the second-worst in Japan in terms of the rate of decline in the number of businesses. Kyoto residents are experiencing hardships. During the election campaign, Mon promised to guarantee equal opportunity to receive welfare and medical services for all people and to help rebuild peoplefs livelihoods. His promise received a favorable response from a wide range of people.h gAll political parties, except for the JCP, came under severe criticism from voters. The vote cast that Mon scored was 1.57 times more than the vote cast for the JCP in the 2009 House of Representatives proportional representation election. In contrast, the vote cast for Yamada was only 47% of the total number of vote that the DPJ, LDP, Komei, and the Social Democratic Party obtained in the 2009 general election. |
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