Akashian presidential election, 2020

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Akashian presidential election, 2020

← 2015 27 June 2015 (first round)
4 July 2015 (second round)
2025 →
Turnout88,2% (first round)
89,6% (second round)
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Candidate Masako Owada Satoru Katayama
Party MPP SP
Popular vote 5.318.305 3.043.810
Percentage 63,6% 36,4%

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Most voted candidate by province (second round)

President before election

Kyōichi Hirayama
SP

President after election

Masako Owada
MPP

A presidential election was held in Akashi on 27 June and 4 July 2020.

Daunted by his very narrow victories, incumbent Kyōichi Hirayama chose to step down after two terms. With an open race, the competition included a unified centre-right candidate, two left candidates from the Socialist Party and Communist Party, a Future Party candidate, and an independent.

Very early on, it was the Moderate People's Party's Masako Owada who was heavily favoured to win. Masako's cosmopolitan background, fluency in multiple languages, diplomatic career, and elegant image proved greatly attractive to voters, and advantages that the other candidates could not effectively counter.

In the first round, Masako won a plurality of 41%, and established a convincing lead over the second-placed candidate, the SP's Satoru Katayama. This set the stage for Masako's landslide victory in the second round, where she won 63,6% of the vote and majorities in all provinces — only the second president to achieve this after Emi Hanamura. Masako even won convincingly in Kobi, where Satoru was seen as such an uninspiring candidate that even the CP's candidate, Bjarka, declared she would vote for Masako in the second round.

Result

Presidential election, 27 June and 4 July 2020
Candidate Party 1st round 2nd round
Votes % Votes %
Masako Owada Moderate People's Party 3.374.897 41,0% 5.318.305 63,6%
Satoru Katayama Socialist Party 2.000.244 24,3% 3.043.810 36,4%
Tetsu Sasori Future Party 1.152.404 14,0%
Bjarka Communist Party 1.028.932 12,5%
Koto Kirishima Independent 674.979 8,2%
Total 8.231.456 100% 8.362.114 100%
Registered voters and turnout 9.332.717 88,2% 89,6%