"Incumbent Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike...secured a third consecutive four-year term, defeating Shinji Ishimaru, a 41-year-old social media-savvy former mayor [of Akitakata city in] Hiroshima Prefecture"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240707/p2g/00m/0na/039000c
🔸Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese) said an LDP member reckoned "anti-Koike" votes (especially amongst younger voters) flowed to Ishimaru thus pushing Renhō into 3rd place
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20240708/spp/sp0/006/025000c
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