1947 Saga gubernatorial election

5 April 1947 1951 →

Nominee Gen'ichi Okimori Ryūzaburō Taku Junji Yanai Party Independent Independent Independent Popular vote 175,095 51,293 48,590   Nominee Morio Tozawa Hironobu Honjō Takuta Ikeda Party Independent Independent Independent Popular vote 45,276 23,322 11,794   Nominee Haruo Shinohara Party Independent Popular vote 4,848

Governor before election Kuniharu Kanayama Independent Elected Governor Gen'ichi Okimori Independent

A gubernatorial election was held on 5 April 1947 to elect the Governor of Saga Prefecture. Former governor Gen'ichi Okimori defeated six other candidates to become the prefecture's first democratically elected governor.

• Gen'ichi Okimori [ja] - former Governor of Saga Prefecture (1945–1946), age 49^[1]
• Baron Ryūzaburō Taku [ja] of the Go-Taku clan [ja] - Member of the House of Peers, age 47^[1]
• Junji Yanai [ja] - former Governor of Taipei (later Member of the House of Representatives), age 51^[1]
• Morio Tozawa [ja] - former Governor of Saga Prefecture (1946–1947), age 47^[1]
• Hironobu Honjō (本城広信, Honjō Hironobu) - author with two works catalogued in the National Diet Library,^[2][3] age 40^[1]
• Takuta Ikeda (池田沢太, Ikeda Takuta), age 53^[1]
• Haruo Shinohara (篠原 春雄, Shinohara Haruo), age 42^[1]