Editing Sendai (section)

== Governance ==
[[File:Sendai City Hall 2023.jpg|thumb|Sendai City Hall|alt=]]
Sendai's political system is similar to other cities in Japan, because the [[Local Autonomy Law]] makes all municipalities uniform in terms of organization and power. However, Sendai is a designated city, so it has the same jurisdiction as [[Prefecture#Japanese sense of prefecture|prefectures]] in some areas.

Sendai has a [[mayor-council]] form of government with a directly elected mayor and a [[unicameral]] city legislature. The [[city council|Sendai City Assembly]] members are elected from 5 elective districts, which correspond to the city's 5 wards. The number of assembly members allocated to each ward is based upon population. As of May 2005, the city has 60 assembly members; 17 from Aoba Ward, 11 from Miyagino, 8 from Wakabayashi, 13 from Taihaku, and 11 from Izumi. The City Assembly elects an Assembly Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. Sendai has two vice mayors, who are not elected by the populace. Miyagi contributes 24 seats to the Miyagi Prefectural legislature. In terms of national politics, the city is divided between the Miyagi 1st district and the Miyagi 2nd district of the [[House of Representatives of Japan|lower house]] of the [[Diet of Japan]].

=== List of mayors of Sendai (1889 to present) ===
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! width="2%"|'''#'''
! width="25%"|'''Name'''
! width="13%"|'''Took office'''
! width="13%"|'''Left office'''
|-
|1-2
|Yoji Endo<br />(遠藤庸治)
|12 April 1889
|7 March 1898
|-
|3
|Yoshiaki Satomi<br />(里見良顕)
|8 April 1898
|13 March 1903
|-
|4
|Tomohiro Hayakawa<br />(早川智寛)
|2 April 1903
|1 July 1907
|-
|5
|Takayoshi Wadachi<br />(和達孚嘉)
|2 July 1907
|2 July 1910
|-
|6
|Yoji Endo<br />
|11 December 1910
|4 November 1914
|-
|7
|Kiichi Yamada<br />(山田揆一)
|25 May 1915
|24 May 1919
|}
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{| class="wikitable"
! width="2%"|'''#'''
! width="25%"|'''Name'''
! width="13%"|'''Took office'''
! width="13%"|'''Left office'''
|-
|8-9
|Takesaburo Kanomata<br />(鹿又武三郎)
|17 July 1919
|26 July 1927
|-
|10
|Ryunosuke Yamaguchi<br />(山口龍之助)
|13 August 1927
|7 June 1930
|-
|11-13
|Tokusaburo Shibuya<br />(渋谷徳三郎)
|31 August 1930
|30 August 1942
|-
|14
|Takeshi Imamura<br />(今村武志)
|23 September 1942
|14 May 1946
|-
|15-18
|Eimatsu Okazaki<br />(岡崎栄松)
|17 June 1946
|17 December 1957
|-
|20-25
|Takeshi Shimano<br />(島野　武)
|2 February 1958
|6 November 1984
|}
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{| class="wikitable"
! width="2%"|'''#'''
! width="25%"|'''Name'''
! width="13%"|'''Took office'''
! width="13%"|'''Left office'''
|-
|26-28
|Toru Ishii<br />(石井亨)
|23 December 1984
|3 July 1993
|-
|29-31
|Hajimu Fujii<br />(藤井黎)
|22 August 1993
|21 August 2005
|-
|32
|Katsuhiko Umehara<br />(梅原克彦)
|22 August 2005
|21 August 2009
|-
|33-34
|Emiko Okuyama<br />(奥山恵美子)
|22 August 2009
|21 August 2017
|-
|35
|Kazuko Kori<br />(郡和子)
|22 August 2017
|present
|}
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