Mie Prefectural Assembly
The Mie Prefectural Assembly is the prefectural parliament of Mie.
Its 51 members are elected every four years in 17 districts by single non-transferable vote. 15 electoral districts are multi-member districts, two are 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.Current composition
The last elections were held in the unified local elections in April 2011, at the same time when centre-right supported Eikei Suzuki narrowly beat DPJ-supported Naohisa Matsuda in the Mie gubernatorial election. In the assembly election, the Liberal Democratic Party remained strongest party, but the Democratic-Social Democratic group Shinsei Mie emerged as strongest force. The Japanese Communist Party lost all its seats in 2011.
As of April 30, 2011, the assembly was composed as follows:Electoral districts
As in all prefectures, most electoral districts correspond to current cities and former counties.
