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{{short description|Election for Governor of Tokyo}}
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| election_name = 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election
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| turnout = 57.87%
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| party1 = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| popular_vote1 = '''1,664,558'''
| percentage1 = '''30.47%'''
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| popular_vote2 = 851,130
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The '''1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election''' were held on April 11, 1999 as part of the [[1999 Japanese unified local elections|14th unified local elections]]. Incumbent [[Yukio Aoshima]] announced that he would not seek re-election. All major candidates ran as independents but several were supported by major parties. The [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]], led by Secretary General [[Yoshiro Mori]], supported [[Yasushi Akashi]] as a compromise with coalition partner [[New Komeito]], but local LDP legislators divided their support between candidates Ishihara, Masuzoe and Kakizawa.
Author and former Diet member [[Shintaro Ishihara]], who had previously come in second in the [[1975 Tokyo gubernatorial election|1975 gubernatorial election]] against incumbent governor [[Ryokichi Minobe]],<ref>{{cite book|author1-link=Gary Allinson|last=Allinson|first=Gary D.|title=Suburban Tokyo: A Comparative Study in Politics and Social Change|year=1979|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|page=185|isbn=9780520028425|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nc455-BeD80C&q=1975%20tokyo%20election&pg=PA185}}</ref> won the election on a nationalist platform, saying that he would have the United States return [[Yokota Air Base]] to Japan and clarify its position on Japan's ownership of the [[Senkaku Islands]]. Akashi came in fourth, the poorest showing by an LDP-supported candidate in Tokyo history.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kristof|first=Nicholas|title=Nationalist Critical of U.S. Air Base Is Elected Governor of Tokyo|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/12/world/nationalist-critical-of-us-air-base-is-elected-governor-of-tokyo.html|accessdate=8 January 2014|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=12 April 1999}}</ref>
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