Tojima People's Party

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Tojima People's Party東島人民党 Tōjima Jinmin-tō 	Tojima People's Party東島人民党 Tōjima Jinmin-tō
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Leaders 	Ryota KawakamiJames NakataniNobuyuki NakaharaJerome JohnsonDaisuke SugaiIsaac WongHideaki Takanaka
Founded 	17 October 1949
Split from 	United Party
Dissolved 	5 February 1994
Merged with 	Liberal Democrats
Ideology 	Tojiman localismPopulismClassical liberalismLiberal conservatism
Political position 	Centre-right
Colour 	Blue
The Tojima People's Party (TPP, Japanese: 東島人民党, Hepburn: Tōjima Jinmin-tō) was a localist and conservative political party in Tojima, Enderron. It mainly adhered to an ideology of Tojiman localism and defined itself as autonomist regarding Tojima's status in the Enderronian federation. It was also broadly socially conservative and classical liberal.
The TPP was founded by Japanese Enderronian dissidents of the United Party who disapproved of the party's policies regarding Tojima, in particular its cultural assimilationist stance on non-British Enderronians. Rather than join the centre-left Social Democratic Party, the group decided to form a conservative pro-Tojima party. The party first contested the 1950 prefectural election, electing inaugural leader Ryota Kawakami to the Tojima Prefectural Assembly.
It quickly became the favoured party among conservative Japanese Enderronians, and by 1958 it had supplanted the United Party as the main right-of-centre party in Tojiman politics, and the main opponent to the centre-left and federalist Social Democrats. It controlled the Prefectural Assembly from 1966 to 1970 as a majority government under Nobuyuki Nakahara, and again from 1990 to 1994 as a coalition government under Hideaki Takanaka. For most of the intervening period, it formed the Official Opposition in the legislature. The party achieved greater electoral success in gubernatorial elections, winning five consecutive elections and controlling the governor's office continuously from 1958 to 1978.
Although the party was officially multiracial and branded itself as a big tent autonomist and localist party for conservative Tojimans, most of its support throughout its history came from middle-class Japanese Enderronians, and White Tojimans by and large remained with the United Party or the Social Democrats. From the early 1980s onwards, the party became less avowedly localist and shifted towards a catch-all conservative platform, to attract voters away from the United Party.
The TPP merged with the Liberal Democrats prior to the 1994 prefectural election. The conservative wing of the party opposed the merger and later formed the Tojima Citizens Association, which became Tojima First in 1998. The Liberal Democrats themselves later merged into the modern Liberal Party of Tojima in 2000. Autonomist Japanese Enderronians have since mostly moved back to Tojima First, which became a centrist party in the mid-2000s, while the Liberals have become more ardently anti-autonomist.
==Party leaders==
No. 	Name 	Term began 	Term ended 	Time in office
align="centre"	Ryota Kawakami 	17 October 1949	14 July 1954 	
align="centre"	James Nakatani 	14 July 1954 	29 May 1958 	
align="centre"	Nobuyuki Nakahara	29 May 1958 	2 June 1970 	
align="centre"	Jerome Johnson 	2 June 1970 	11 October 1977	
align="centre"	Daisuke Sugai 	11 October 1977	13 March 1979 	
align="centre"	Isaac Wong 	13 March 1979 	24 August 1985 	
align="centre"	Hideaki Takanaka 	24 August 1985 	5 February 1994	
===Deputy party leaders===
#Michael Kimura (1949–1952)
#Ryuji Sakaguchi (1952–1956, 1958–1959)
#Nobuyuki Nakahara (1956–1958)
#Kunio Toma (1959–1964)
#Jerome Johnson (1964–1970)
#Joseph Oshiro (1970–1975)
#Daisuke Sugai (1975–1977)
#Chris Reith (1977–1978)
#Richard Dempster (1978–1979)
#Eiji Anzai (1979–1982)
#Hideaki Takanaka (1982–1985)
#Matthew Lipton (1985–1990)
#Chi Maeda (1990–1994)
==Election results==
===Prefectural Assembly===
Election	Seats won	± 	Total votes	% 	Position	Status 	Leader
1950 	/ 	New	 	8.23% 	4th 	Crossbench 	Ryota Kawakami
1954 	/ 	5 	 	20.55%	3rd 	Crossbench 	Ryota Kawakami
1958 	/ 	7 	 	29.42%	2nd 	Official Opposition 	James Nakatani
1962 	/ 	2 	 	32.47%	2nd 	Official Opposition 	Nobuyuki Nakahara
1966 	/ 	8 	 	39.54%	1st 	Majority government 	Nobuyuki Nakahara
1970 	/ 	11 	 	35.88%	2nd 	Official Opposition 	Nobuyuki Nakahara
1974 	/ 	3 	 	26.68%	3rd 	Coalition government(UP–TPP)	Jerome Johnson
1978 	/ 	3 	 	19.40%	2nd 	Official Opposition 	Daisuke Sugai
1982 	/ 	8 	 	27.13%	2nd 	Official Opposition 	Isaac Wong
1986 	/ 	2 	 	22.59%	2nd 	Official Opposition 	Hideaki Takanaka
1990 	/ 	4 	 	33.14%	1st 	Coalition government(TPP–LD)	Hideaki Takanaka