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A gubernatorial election was held on 29 July 2012 to elect the next governor of Yamaguchi (山口県, Yamaguchi-ken), a prefecture of Japan in the Chūgoku region of the main island of Honshu.[1]
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| Turnout | 45.32  8.11 | ||
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Sekinari Nii (LDP), who had held office since 1996, did not stand for re-election.
- Shigetaru Yamamoto, former bureaucrat of the ministry of Transports, endorsed by LDP and New Komeito.
- Tetsunari Iida, engineer, anti-nuclear and pro renewable energy. Backed by the SDP and the JCP.
- Tsutomu Takamura, former member of the House of Representatives for the DPJ.
- Shigeyuki Miwa, physician, former Director of Health Promotion Division of the Yamaguchi Prefecture.
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| LDP | Shigetaru Yamamoto | 252,461 | 47.57 |  23.07 | |
| Social Democratic | Tetsunari Iida | 185,654 | 34.98 | 5.62 | |
| Democratic | Tsutomu Takamura | 55,418 | 10.44 | ||
| Shigeyuki Miwa | 37,150 | 7.00 | |||
| Turnout | 537.077 | 45.32 | 8.11 | ||
| Registered electors | 1,185,190 | ||||
| LDP hold | Swing | ||||
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