Tokyo gubernatorial election, 2016
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Tokyo held an election on 31 July 2016 to elect the successor to Governor Yoichi Masuzoe, who submitted his resignation to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly on 15 June 2016.By-elections in four of Tokyo's cities were held on the same day to fill vacancies in the Assembly.
Former Defense Minister Yuriko Koike won the election by a wide margin. Turnout increased sharply to 59% from 46% in the previous election.
Yoichi Masuzoe, a former national Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare, was elected at the February 2014 election. At the election he was endorsed by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito and received more than 2.11 million votes, more than double his nearest opponent in the seven-candidate race. He replaced Naoki Inose, who had resigned in the second year of his four-year term due a political funds scandal.
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