2003 Saga gubernatorial election

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2003 Saga gubernatorial election

← 1999 13 April 2003 2007 →

Nominee Yasushi Furukawa Iwamasa Miyahara Hisatoshi Higuchi Party Independent Independent Independent Popular vote 332,785 147,842 76,520   Nominee Tomoki Kinoshita Koreyuki Fukushima Shigeto Hayashida Party Independent Independent Independent Popular vote 30,149 25,577 19,035

Governor before election Isamu Imoto Independent Elected Governor Yasushi Furukawa Independent

A gubernatorial election was held on 13 April 2003 to elect the Governor of Saga Prefecture. Newcomer Yasushi Furukawa won the election.

Candidates

• Yasushi Furukawa - retired (most recent job: former manager of Nagasaki Prefecture General Affairs Department), age 44^[1]
• Iwamasa Miyahara (宮原岩政, Miyahara Iwamasa) - member of the Saga Prefectural Assembly, age 61^[1]
• Hisatoshi Higuchi [ja] - civil servant at MAFF and later mayor of Kashima, Saga, age 57^[1]
• Tomoki Kinoshita (木下知己, Kinoshita Tomoki) - professor at Nasu University, age 55^[1]
• Koreyuki Fukushima (福島是幸, Fukushima Koreyuki) - former prefectural high school teacher union chairman, age 63^[1]
• Shigeto Hayashida (林田重人, Hayashida Shigeto) - former prefectural superintendent of education, age 66^[1]

Results

References

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