 In the April 2015 unified local elections, two candidates from the Liberal Democratic Party and one each from the Komeito, Communist and Innovation/Democratic (joint endorsement) were elected to the council.Takashi Moriya, an LDP member elected to his sixth term in the council, was subsequently elected by the council's members to serve as the council's chairman.Hyogo has two representatives on the 89-seat Hyogo Prefectural Assembly.