2024 Nagoya mayoral election

2024 Nagoya mayoral election

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Turnout	39.63% ( 2.49pp)
Candidate Ichiro Hirosawa Kohei Otsuka Keiko Ogata Party Independent Independent Independent Popular vote 392,519 261,425 53,622 Percentage 53.43% 35.58% 7.30% Supported by CPJ, Genzei Nippon LDP, CDP, Komei, DPP JCP, Greens
Election results by wards
Mayor before election Takashi Kawamura Independent Elected mayor Ichiro Hirosawa Independent

The 2024 Nagoya mayoral election was held on 24 November 2024, to elect the mayor of Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan because of the resignation of Takashi Kawamura to run for the 2024 general election.

Ichiro Hirosawa, who is a close aide of Kawamura, was elected for the first time.

Background

Kawamura's resignation

In a press conference on 1 October 2024, incumbent Takashi Kawamura (Leader of the regional party Genzei Nippon, Co-Leader of the CPJ) announced his intention to run for the next general election scheduled for 27 October 2024, and submitted a resignation to the Nagoya City Council on 9 October. However, Nagoya City Council refused. ^{[1] [2]}

Kawamura reported his candidacy in the general election on 15 October. As he retired (automatically lost his job) as mayor of Nagoya pursuant to Article 90 of the Public Offices Election Act, the mayoral election was held about five months earlier than if he served until the expiration of his term of office. ^[3]

Parties' endorsement

LDP

LDP's Aichi Confederation decided to nominate Toshiaki Yokoi, a LDP Nagoya city council member, as its candidate, but gave up Yokoi’s candidacy at the LDP headquarters' request and decided to endorse Kohei Otsuka.

Candidates

A total of 7 candidates registered candidacies for the election. ^[4]

Name	Age	Party	Title
Toshimitsu Ota （太田敏充）	76	Independent	Former office worker
Ichiro Hirosawa （広沢一郎）	60	Independent [a]	Former Deputy Mayor of Nagoya
Noboru Mizutani （水谷昇）	61	Independent	Former travel agency president
Hideki Fuwa （不破英紀）	64	Independent	Former university lecturer
Yoshiaki Suzuki （鈴木慶明）	85	Independent	Former professor of Local Autonomy College
Kohei Otsuka （大塚耕平）	65	Independent [b]	Former member of the House of Councillors
Keiko Ogata （尾形慶子）	67	Independent	Co-leader of Tōkai branch of Greens Japan

Results

As a result of the vote counting, Hirosawa won a landslide victory by about 130,000 votes over Otsuka, the runner-up. The results shocked established political parties and made clear the public's support for the succession of Kawamura’s mayorlty, which Hirosawa had proposed. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Nagoya mayoral election 24 November 2024 ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent [a]	Ichiro Hirosawa	392,519	53.43%	N/A
	Independent [b]	Kohei Otsuka	261,425	35.58%	N/A
	Independent	Keiko Ogata	53,622	7.30%	N/A
	Independent	Noboru Mizutani	12,492	1.70%	N/A
	Independent	Toshimitsu Ota	8,178	1.11%	N/A
	Independent	Yoshiaki Suzuki	3,454	0.47%	N/A
	Independent	Hideki Fuwa	2,973	0.40%	N/A

Notes

1. endorsed by CPJ, Genzei Nippon.
2. endorsed by LDP, CDP, Komei, DPP.

References

1. "名古屋 河村市長 次の衆院選 愛知1区から立候補を表明" (in Japanese). NHK. 1 October 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
2. "河村たかし氏"オワコン"一転　日本保守党で「総理を狙う男アゲイン」" (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 9 October 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
3. "河村たかし名古屋市長が"最後の登庁日"　議会と最後までバトル、"河村節"で振り返った15年" (in Japanese). Nagoya Broadcasting Network. 11 October 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
4. "名古屋市長選挙2024 候補者アンケート" (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 2 July 2025.
5. "Ex-Deputy Mayor Certain to Win Nagoya Mayoral Election". Yomiuri Shimbun. 25 November 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
6. "Nagoya Mayoral Election Results Shock Established Parties; Former Upper House Member Supported by 4 Major Parties Defeated". Yomiuri Shimbun. 26 November 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
7. "Aide overcomes 'hysterectomy' uproar to win Nagoya election". The Asahi Shimbun. 25 November 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
8. "名古屋市長選挙2024" (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 3 July 2025.