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19th presidential election of the Republic of Japan
← 2016 22 March 2020 2024 →
Turnout 54.73%
  Yukio Edano in SL Square on 2017 - 4 (cropped) Seiko hashimoto Mizuho Fukushima 2010
Nominee Yukio Edano Seiko Hashimoto Mizuho Fukushima
Party Constitutional Democratic Liberal Democratic Social Democratic
Home state Saitama Niigata Miyazaki
Running mate Akira Nagatsuma Noboteru Ishihara Hajime Yoshikawa
Popular vote 29,570,334 27,516,164 4,385,931
Percentage 42.61% 39.65% 6.32%

President before election

Yukio Edano
Constitutional Democratic

Elected President

Yukio Edano
Constitutional Democratic

The 19th presidential election of the Republic of Japan (第19回日本民国大統領選挙, dai-jūkyūkai Nippon Minkoku Daitōryō senkyo) was held on Sunday, 22 March 2020, to elect the President and Vice President of the Republic of Japan. The Constitutional Democratic ticket of President Yukio Edano and Vice President Akira Nagatsuma defeated the Liberal Democratic ticket of Senator Seiko Hashimoto and Assemblyman Noboteru Ishihara. Edano and Nagatsuma were thereby reelected for a second term. The presidential election was held concurrently with the 36th National Assembly and Senate elections.

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