2003 Shinjuku local election


Shinjuku, Tokyo held an election to the local ward assembly on April 27, 2003, as part of the 15th unified local elections.

Candidates

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Incumbents

  • Sanae Abe, a 49-year-old woman
  • Tsuyako Akaba, a 47-year-old woman
  • Hiroshi Akita, a 65-year-old man
  • Takehiko Amemiya, a 55-year-old man
  • Teruhisa Asō, a 54-year-old man
  • Tamie Azami, a 33-year-old woman
  • Hidetaka Enoki, a 38-year-old man
  • Isamu Gonnami, a 69-year-old man
  • Masami Inotsume, a 47-year-old woman and later Tokyo Metropolitan Assemblywoman
  • Hideo Kami, a 57-year-old man
  • Tsuyako Kasai, a 55-year-old woman
  • Akihiko Kawade, a 37-year-old man
  • Tatsuo Kawano, a 55-year-old man
  • Masako Komatsu, a 51-year-old woman
  • Natsuko Kondō, a 36-year-old woman
  • Gōsuke Kubo, a 66-year-old man
  • Sumiko Kumagai, a 57-year-old woman
  • Kōhei Kuwabara, a 50-year-old man
  • Masao Matsugaya, a 64-year-old man and later 2010 candidate for Shinjuku mayor.
  • Kimihiro Matsukawa, a 41-year-old man
  • Toshifumi Miyasaka, a 48-year-old man
  • Yoshihiko Nakamura, a 65-year-old man
  • Takeshi Nodzu, a 39-year-old man
  • Fumiaki Noguchi, a 62-year-old man
  • Michio Obata, a 57-year-old man
  • Kimiko Ono, a 66-year-old woman
  • Takeshi Sahara, a 59-year-old man
  • Ayumi Sawada, a 37-year-old woman
  • Yūichirō Shida, a 35-year-old man
  • Masaaki Sometani, a 59-year-old man
  • Yukie Suzuki, a 48-year-old woman
  • Norihide Tanaka, a 50-year-old man
  • Masao Toyoshima, a 55-year-old man
  • Toshiyuki Yamada, a 60-year-old man
  • Iwao Yamazoe, a 59-year-old man

Newcomers

  • Toshirō Arima, a 46-year-old man
  • Toshisada Fukazawa, a 60-year-old man
  • Akihiko Henmi, a 45-year-old man
  • Haruji Ishioka, a 45-year-old man
  • Noriaki Kawamura, a 31-year-old man
  • Kōzō Muramatsu, a 38-year-old man
  • Masayuki Nasu, a 59-year-old man
  • Toshihiko Ogura, a 42-year-old man
  • Shōtarō Ōki, a 57-year-old man
  • Haruo Shimomura, a 50-year-old man
  • Kazuharu Tsubuki, a 41-year-old man
  • Junichi Urushibara, a 64-year-old man and previously Shinjuku mayor candidate in 1999 and 2002.
  • Haruo Yoshizumi, a 30-year-old man
  • Kenichi Yoshizumi, a 31-year-old man, later Tokyo Metropolitan Assemblyman and mayor of Shinjuku
Two of the male candidates, 54-year-old male Jirō Nemoto and 39-year-old male Kenji Yamaguchi, were previously in this office.

Results

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