About electoral list

If you are not registered in the electoral list, you will not be able to vote.
When you move, let's send it right away.

It is registered in the electoral list four times a year (March, June, September and 1st) in the ward where you live. In addition, when there is an election, it will be registered temporarily.
In addition, no special procedures are required to register in the electoral list if the following requirements are met.
1.Having a Address in the area of the municipality where you live.
2.Being a Japanese citizen who is at least 18 years old.
3.Must be recorded in the Basic Resident Register of the municipality for at least three months from the date on which resident certificate was created or the date of notification of transfer (if you moved out of the city before being registered in the electoral list, If you are within 4 months after moving out, you will be registered in the electoral list of the municipality before moving out.) In addition, when we move in Yokohama-shi, period of three months is counted.
→Number of electoral list registrants

Be careful! Registration of the electoral list is based on the Basic Resident Register. Therefore, notification of the relocation of Address must be made within 14 days from that date.