2021 Tokyo prefectural election

2021 Tokyo prefectural election

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All 127 seats in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly 64 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	42.39% (8.89%)[1]
First party Second party Third party   Leader Ichirō Kamoshita Chiharu Araki Yōsuke Takagi Party Liberal Democratic Tomin First Komeito Last election 23 seats, 22.53% 49 seats, 33.68% 23 seats, 13.13% Seats before 25 46 23 Seats won 33 31 23 Seat change 8 15 Popular vote 1,192,796 1,034,778 630,810 Percentage 25.69% 22.28% 13.58% Swing 3.16% 11.40% 0.58%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   共産 Leader Tanabe Yoshihiko Akira Nagatsuma Hirofumi Yanagase Party Communist CDP Ishin Last election 19 seats, 13.83% New party[a] 1 seat, 0.97% Seats before 18 7 1 Seats won 19 15 1 Seat change 1 8 Popular vote 630,158 573,086 165,850 Percentage 13.57% 12.34% 3.57% Swing 0.26% 5.44% 2.60%   Seventh party   ネット Leader Reiko Yamauchi Party Tokyo Seikatsusha Network Last election 1 seat, 1.25% Seats before 1 Seats won 1 Seat change Popular vote 61,070 Percentage 1.32% Swing 0.07%
Assembly President before election Ryōichi Ishikawa Tomin First Elected Assembly President Shigeki Miyake Liberal Democratic

Prefectural elections for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly (令和3年/2021年東京都議会議員選挙, Reiwa 3-nen/2021-nen Tōkyō togikai giin senkyo, "Reiwa 3/2021 election of members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly") were held on 4 July 2021. The 127 members were elected in forty-two electoral districts, seven returning single members elected by first-past-the-post, and thirty-five returning multiple members under single non-transferable vote.^[2] Two districts had their magnitude adjusted in this election to match population changes.^[3]

The results of the election saw the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) winning the most seats, displacing the regional party Tomin First no Kai to become the largest party in the Assembly. However the coalition of the LDP and their partner Komeito failed to win an outright majority of seats in what was widely described as a poor result for the LDP and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.^[1][4]

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