Teiko National Elections, 1997

The Teiko national elections of 1997 was the second sextennial national elections in the Federal Kingdom of Teiko since 1986. It was held Thursday, November 27, 1997. Voting took place in all representatives constituencies of Teiko including proportional blocks, in order to elect the next Premier and Deputy Premier of Teiko and all the district and sectoral representatives of the Teiko Royal Council through a plurality voting system via single constituency voting and proportional block system.

The incumbent premier, Kisuke Urahara did not seek re-election due to corruption allegations and mismanagements of the economy during the 1997 Asian Financial Crises. The 1997 elections was among the most expensive and heated as the Teikonian economy enters the period of recession called Black Decade. The ruling National Party initially nominated former Minister for Trade and Industry Yamazaki Utemaro but outcry among factions within the party led to the nomination of a compromised candidate, Kuroto Hourai. The Democratic Party nomination was won by Tsuge Kanzaburo and the Liberal Party was represented by former Shadow Minister for Interior and District Government Sakuma Hidehira.

Results showed that Kuroto Hourai from the Teiko National Party won by a plurality majority, the first time in the country's electoral history.

Results
!rowspan="2" style="width: 15em" |Candidate !rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="width: 15em" |Party ! style="width: 14em" colspan="2" |Results ! style="width: 9em" |Votes ! style="width: 5em" |%
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 * style="text-align:left;" |Kisuke Urahara


 * style="text-align:right;" | 4,897,066
 * style="text-align:right;" | 44.66%
 * style="text-align:left;" |Kanzaburo Tsuge
 * style="text-align:left;" |Kanzaburo Tsuge


 * style="text-align:right;" | 4,234,768
 * style="text-align:right;" | 38.62%
 * style="text-align:left;" |Hidehira Sakuma
 * style="text-align:left;" |Hidehira Sakuma


 * style="text-align:right;" | 1,323,502
 * style="text-align:right;" | 12.07%
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 * colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Total valid votes
 * style="text-align:right;" | 10,455,336
 * style="text-align:right;" | 95.35%
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 * colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Total invalid votes
 * style="text-align:right;" | 509,883
 * style="text-align:right;" | 4.65%
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 * colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Total turnout
 * style="text-align:right;" | 10,965,219
 * style="text-align:right;" | 91.26%
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 * colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Registered voters
 * style="text-align:right;" | 12,015,362
 * style="text-align:right;" | 100.00%
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 * style="text-align:right;" | 100.00%
 * }