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Okinawa Prefectural Assembly 沖縄県議会 Okinawa-kengikai
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	1909 (1909) in the Empire 1972 (1972) after end of U.S. military rule
Leadership
President (gichō)	Noboru Akamine, Independent
Vice President (fuku-gichō)	Hiraki Nakada, Liberal Democratic Party
Structure
Seats	48
Political groups	Government (20)   Tida Peace Network (8)   Okinawa's New Wind (5)   JCP (4)   Social Mass (3) Neutral (6)   Kōmeitō (4)   Ishin (2) Opposition (22)   LDP (22)
Elections
Last election	16 June 2024
Meeting place
Website
Official website

The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly (Japanese: 沖縄県議会, Hepburn: Okinawa-kengikai) is the prefectural parliament of Okinawa.

Its 48 members are elected every four years in 14 districts by single non-transferable vote (SNTV). 13 electoral districts are multi-member district, one district is a single-member district where SNTV becomes equivalent to First-past-the-post voting.

The assembly is responsible for enacting and amending prefectural ordinances, approving the budget and voting on important administrative appointments made by the governor including the vice-governors.

Unlike most mainland prefectural assemblies (Hokkaidō is another exception) the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly was not in existence continuously since 1878. After the Battle of Okinawa, the United States military governed the prefecture. The civilian branch of the military government was the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands; a Legislature of the Government of the Ryukyu Islands (立法院) was created in 1952. After Okinawa's return to the mainland in 1972, the Prefectural Assembly was restored. Since then, it had been one of three prefectures in the country that do not elect their assemblies in unified local elections (last round: 2011), the other two being Ibaraki and Tokyo (In 2011, another three prefectures hit by the Great East Japan earthquake postponed their elections).

Current composition

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As of 2017, the assembly was composed as follows:

Electoral districts

Most electoral districts in Okinawa correspond to current cities or former counties (the counties, abolished as administrative unit in 1921, had initially by definition served as electoral districts for prefectural assemblies in the Empire).

List of presidents and vice presidents

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Presidents

Vice presidents

References

1. Okinawa Prefectural Assembly: History
2. Assembly members by parliamentary group(in Japanese)
3. Okinawa Prefectural Assembly: Organizational structure and electoral districts

External links

• Okinawa Prefectural Assembly (in Japanese), Resolutions related to the U.S. military presence in English
• Okinawa Prefectural Electoral Commission (in Japanese)

v t e Prefectural assemblies of Japan
Hokkaido	Hokkaido
Tōhoku	Aomori Iwate Miyagi Akita Yamagata Fukushima
Kantō	Ibaraki Tochigi Gunma Saitama Chiba Tokyo Kanagawa
Chūbu	Niigata Toyama Ishikawa Fukui Yamanashi Nagano Gifu Shizuoka Aichi
Kansai	Mie Shiga Kyoto Osaka Hyogo Nara Wakayama
Chūgoku	Tottori Shimane Okayama Hiroshima Yamaguchi
Shikoku	Tokushima Kagawa Ehime Kochi
Kyushu	Fukuoka Saga Nagasaki Kumamoto Oita Miyazaki Kagoshima Okinawa

• Prefectural assemblies of Japan
• Politics of Okinawa