香川知事に池田氏初当選　共産系新人破る

　任期満了に伴う香川県知事選は２８日投開票され、無所属新人で元国土交通省道路局長の池田豊人氏（６１）＝自民、立憲民主、公明、国民民主推薦＝が、無所属新人で共産党県委員長の中谷浩一氏（６１）＝共産推薦＝を破り、初当選を果たした。投票率は過去最低の２９．０９％。
　池田氏は、３期１２年で退任する現職の浜田恵造知事による県政運営の継承を掲げ、中央省庁での実績を強調。人口減少対策や農林水産業の振興などを主張し、幅広い支持を集めた。
　中谷氏は、子ども医療費無償化の拡充や中小企業支援などを訴えたが、及ばなかった。（2022/08/29-01:17）

Former Japanese government bureaucrat Toyohito Ikeda won his first four-year term as Kagawa governor in Sunday's election in the western Japan prefecture.
   Ikeda, 61, former director-general of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry's Road Bureau, beat his only contender, Koichi Nakatani, 61.
   In the gubernatorial election, Ikeda collected 166,390 votes, against 59,724 votes for Nakatani. Voter turnout stood at 29.09 pct, a record low for gubernatorial elections in Kagawa.
   Running in Sunday's election as an independent candidate, Ikeda was supported by Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its coalition partner, Komeito, the leading opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Democratic Party for the People, also an opposition party.
   Nakatani, head of the Japanese Communist Party's Kagawa prefectural branch, was backed by the JCP in the poll. He also ran as an independent candidate.