Overview

• The Liberal Democratic Party secured just 21 seats in Tokyo’s 127-member assembly, marking its lowest result on record.
• Tomin First no Kai, founded by Governor Yuriko Koike, won 31 seats to become the assembly’s largest party.
• Voter turnout climbed to 47.6%, up from 42.4% four years earlier, and the number of women assembly members increased to 45 from 41.
• The party’s appeal was undermined by surging inflation, including rice prices doubling over the past year, and fallout from a political funding scandal.
• Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has offered 20,000 yen per citizen to ease cost-of-living pressures before the July 20 Upper House elections.