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{{short description|Election for Governor of Tokyo}}
[[Tokyo]] held a gubernatorial election on April 11, 1999 as part of the [[Japanese unified local elections, 1999|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 Kagisawa.▼
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election
| country = Tokyo
| type = presidential
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| previous_election = 1995 Tokyo gubernatorial election
| previous_year = 1995
| next_election = 2003 Tokyo gubernatorial election
| next_year = 2003
| election_date = April 11, 1999
| turnout = 57.87%
| image_size = x150px
| image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Shintarō Ishihara 2003.jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 150|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| candidate1 = [[Shintarō Ishihara]]
| party1 = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| popular_vote1 = '''1,664,558'''
| percentage1 = '''30.47%'''
| image2 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Kunio Hatoyama 200809.jpg|bSize = 120|cWidth = 120|cHeight = 150|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| candidate2 = [[Kunio Hatoyama]]
| party2 = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| popular_vote2 = 851,130
| percentage2 = 15.58%
| title = Governor
| before_election = [[Yukio Aoshima]]
| before_party = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| after_election = [[Shintarō Ishihara]]
| after_party = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
}}
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Author and former Diet member [[Shintaro Ishihara]], who had previously come in second in the [[Tokyo gubernatorial election, 1975|1975 gubernatorial election]] against incumbent governor [[Ryokichi Minobe]],<ref>{{cite book|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|url=http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=Nc455-BeD80C&lpg=PA185&ots=kt9IvwhlEy&dq=1975%20tokyo%20election&pg=PA185#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</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=http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/12/world/nationalist-critical-of-us-air-base-is-elected-governor-of-tokyo.html|accessdate=8 January 2014|newspaper=[[New York Times]]|date=12 April 1999}}</ref>▼
▲Author and former Diet member [[Shintaro Ishihara]], who had previously come in second in the [[1975 Tokyo gubernatorial election
{{Election box begin | title=Gubernatorial election 1999: [[Tokyo]]}}▼
== Results ==
{{Election box candidate|
|party = [[Independent
|candidate = [[Shintarō Ishihara]]
|votes = 1,664,558
|percentage = 30.47%
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{{Election box candidate|
|party = [[Independent
|candidate = [[Yōichi Masuzoe]]
|votes = 836,104
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{{Election box candidate|
|party = [[Independent
|candidate = [[Koji Kakizawa|Kōji Kakizawa]]
|votes = 632,054
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{{Election box candidate|
|party = [[Independent
|candidate = [[Yoshirō Nakamatsu]]
|votes = 100,123
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[[Category:Tokyo gubernatorial elections]]
[[Category:April 1999 events in Japan|Tokyo gubernatorial election]]
[[Category:1999 in Tokyo|Gubernatorial election]]
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