Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...

Since each of the election billboards across Tokyo has 48 squares for candidates to paste their posters, the party is renting out half the slots to anyone who pays, including non-candidates.

Laura DePledge and Kevin Kostelnik, as the top two to receive the most votes in the May 6 primary election, will now compete in the November general election for Eastlake mayor. DePledge received a… ...

Since 1981, the highest voter turnout for a mayoral election was in 1989 when 54% of the city's 73,905 registered voters or 39,590 voters cast a ballot.

From police calls involving harassment complaints or yard signs to attack ads filling up residents’ mailboxes and social media feeds, the election between incumbent Mayor Richard Irvin and Ald ...

A Japanese lower house panel on Tuesday approved a bill regulating the standards for electoral campaign posters, following the chaos caused in last year's Tokyo gubernatorial race over the display of ...

The move comes after a number of posters unrelated to the July 7 Tokyo gubernatorial election were displayed on official election billboards during the election campaign period.

Pets featured on election posters; so, in one case, did pornography. A candidate dressed as the Joker from “Batman” spouted nonsense on national television. Another took off her clothes.

The Tokyo metropolitan government building in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, is seen on June 20. Many unusual elements were seen during the campaign period for Sunday’s Tokyo gubernatorial election. With a ...

Incumbent Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike was reelected in Sunday's gubernatorial election with the effective backing of the ruling party, signaling that voters have positively evaluated her policies centered ...

The Tokyo election was emblematic of Japanese politics, where at the national level the Liberal Democrats have governed for all but four years since 1955. The party has held an iron grip on Japan ...