2003 Tokyo gubernatorial election

2003 Tokyo gubernatorial election

April 13, 2003
Turnout	44.94% 12.93 pp
Candidate Shintarō Ishihara Keiko Higuchi Party Independent Independent Popular vote 3,087,190 817,146 Percentage 70.2% 18.6%
Governor before election Shintarō Ishihara Independent Elected Governor Shintarō Ishihara Independent

The 2003 Tokyo Gubernatorial elections were held on 13 April 2003. Incumbent governor Shintaro Ishihara was re-elected with the support of the Liberal Democratic Party, which was riding a nationwide wave of popularity under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Opposition parties had billed the election as a referendum regarding Japanese support for the Iraq War. Although endorsed by the LDP, Ishihara's landslide victory was partly owed to the popularity of policies he enacted in opposition to the national government, such as stricter pollution controls.

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Shintarō Ishihara (incumbent)	endorsed by LDP	3,087,190	70.2
Keiko Higuchi	endorsed by DPJ, SDP	817,146	18.6
Yoshiharu Wakabayashi	Japanese Communist Party	364,007	8.3
Yoshiro Nakamatsu (ドクター 中松)		109,091	2.5
Kazutomo Ikeda (池田 一朝)		19,860	0.4
Total (Turnout: 44.94% (-12.93%))		4,397,294

References

• (in Japanese) 平成15年都知事選挙 開票結果
• (in Japanese) ザ・選挙 -選挙情報-