Iwate Prefectural Assembly

Parliament of Iwate, Japan

Iwate Prefectural Assembly

岩手県議会

Iwate-ken Gikai

Type
Type|

Unicameral

History
Founded| 1878 (1878)
1947 (1947) (current local autonomy law)
Leadership

President (gichō)

Hiroshi Sasaki (佐々木博, Sasaki Hiroshi)[1], Democratic Party
since September 2011

Vice President (fuku-gichō)

Iwami Yanagimura (柳村岩見, Yanagimura Iwami)[1], Liberal Democratic Party
since September 2011

Seats| 48 assembly members
Website
www.pref.iwate.jp/~hp0731/

The Iwate Prefectural Assembly (岩手県議会, Iwate-ken Gikai) is the prefectural parliament of Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Its 48 members are elected every four years in 16 districts by single non-transferable vote.

The assembly is responsible for enacting and amending prefectural ordinances, approving the budget and voting on important administrative appointments made by the governor including the vice governors.

Iwate is one of three prefectures whose assemblies are currently led by the DJP majority. The others are the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly and the Mie Prefectural Assembly.

## Members

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As of 20 September 2019:[2]
Constituency | Members | Party

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Morioka | Junko Chiba | Iwate Kenmin Club
Morioka | Yoshinori Karuishi | Kibō Iwate
Morioka | Masanobu Kobayashi | Komeito
Morioka | Kazuko Konishi | Social Democratic Party
Morioka | Shin Saitō | Japanese Communist Party
Morioka | Kōsuke Takahashi | LDP
Morioka | Tajima Takahashi | Iwate Shinseikai
Morioka | Yasuki Uehara [ja] | Independent
Morioka | Hiromasa Yonai | LDP
Morioka | Keiko Yoshida | Iwate Shinseikai
Miyako | Seishi Itō | Kibō Iwate
Miyako | Yoshihiko Jōnai | LDP
Miyako | Nobukazu Sasaki | LDP
Ōfunato | Sakari Chiba | Iwate Shinseikai
Hanamaki | Shinkō Kawamura | LDP
Hanamaki | Yukihiro Kimura | Social Democratic Party
Hanamaki | Shin Nasukawa | Kibō Iwate
Hanamaki | Jun'ichi Sasaki | Kibō Iwate
Kitakami | Keiko Satō | Kibō Iwate
Kitakami | Toshinobu Sekine | Kibō Iwate
Kitakami | Hajime Takahashi | Kibō Iwate
Kitakami | Yasuyuki Takahashi | LDP
Kuji | Gen Iwaki | Kibō Iwate
Kuji | Hitoshi Nakatai | Iwate Shinseikai
Tōno | Katsuko Kudō | Independent
Ichinoseki | Tadashi Iizawa | Iwate Kenmin Club
Ichinoseki | Makoto Iwabuchi | Kibō Iwate
Ichinoseki | Hiroyuki Kanzaki | LDP
Ichinoseki | Tomokazu Sasaki | Iwate Shinseikai
Ichinoseki | Ichirō Takada | Japanese Communist Party
Rikuzentakata | Shigemitsu Sasaki | LDP
Kamaishi | Tomokazu Iwasaki | LDP
Kamaishi | Kyō Ono | Iwate Shinseikai
Ninohe | Ō Itsukaichi | Kibō Iwate
Ninohe | Fumitomo Matsukura | LDP
Hachimantai | Tsutō Chiba | LDP
Hachimantai | Katsuhiro Kudō | Iwate Kenmin Club
Ōshū | Hideyuki Chiba | Kibō Iwate
Ōshū | Mitsuko Chida | Japanese Communist Party
Ōshū | Hiroshi Gōkon | Kibō Iwate
Ōshū | Hironori Kanno | Kibō Iwate
Ōshū | Tsutomu Sasaki | Iwate Kenmin Club
Takizawa | Huxel Mihoko | Iwate Kenmin Club
Takizawa | Satoru Takeda | LDP
Takizawa | Makoto Yanagimura | Kibō Iwate
Shiwa | Katsunori Tamura | Iwate Shinseikai
Shiwa | Tsutomu Usuzawa | LDP
Kunohe | Daisuke Kudō | Iwate Shinseikai

## References

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1. ^ a b 議員名簿
2. ^ Member List at Official Site

## External links

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Prefectural assemblies of Japan

Hokkaido|

* Hokkaido

Tōhoku|

* Aomori
* Iwate
* Miyagi
* Akita
* Yamagata
* Fukushima

Kantō|

* Ibaraki
* Tochigi
* Gunma
* Saitama
* Chiba
* Tokyo
* Kanagawa

Chūbu|

* Niigata
* Toyama
* Ishikawa
* Fukui
* Yamanashi
* Nagano
* Gifu
* Shizuoka
* Aichi

Kansai|

* Mie
* Shiga
* Kyoto
* Osaka
* Hyogo
* Nara
* Wakayama

Chūgoku|

* Tottori
* Shimane
* Okayama
* Hiroshima
* Yamaguchi

Shikoku|

* Tokushima
* Kagawa
* Ehime
* Kochi

Kyushu|

* Fukuoka
* Saga
* Nagasaki
* Kumamoto
* Oita
* Miyazaki
* Kagoshima
* Okinawa

* v
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* e

Iwate Prefecture

Morioka (capital)

Core city|

* Morioka

Cities|

* Hachimantai
* Hanamaki
* Ichinoseki
* Kamaishi
* Kitakami
* Kuji
* Miyako
* Ninohe
* Ōfunato
* Ōshū
* Rikuzentakata
* Takizawa
* Tōno

Districts|

* Isawa District
* Kanegasaki
* Iwate District
* Iwate
* Kuzumaki
* Shizukuishi
* Kamihei District
* Ōtsuchi
* Kesen District
* Sumita
* Kunohe District
* Hirono
* Karumai
* Kunohe
* Noda
* Ninohe District
* Ichinohe
* Nishiiwai District
* Hiraizumi
* Shimohei District
* Fudai
* Iwaizumi
* Tanohata
* Yamada
* Shiwa District
* Shiwa
* Yahaba
* Waga District
* Nishiwaga

List of mergers in Iwate Prefecture

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Japan

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