Nara Prefecture - Politics

Politics

• A governor and members of prefectural assembly is elected by citizens in accordance with the Local Autonomy Law.
• As of 2007, there are 44 seats in the Nara Prefectural Assembly, voted through 16 electoral blocks.

• There was a clear tendency seen through the results of Lower House election in 2005, that the younger generation executes its voting right much less compared to the older. Only 48.8% of citizens age 20–29 voted, whereas all older generations (grouped by decades) votes more than its younger, reaching the highest voting rate of 86.3% at ages 60–69. The only exception was the 72.1% voting right executed by citizens of 70 or older. The overall average of the prefecture who voted was yet higher, at 70.3%, than that of nationwide average, 67.5%.