issues Co., Ltd.
74.6% of residents improved their political participation awareness through online interaction with lawmakers! Implemented a survey on information to be used as a reference in selecting voters for the policy realization platform “issues”
64.3% answered that they would refer to posts by lawmakers on SNS, blogs, YouTube, etc.
Issues Co., Ltd. (Representative Director: Tatsunobu Hirota, Headquarters: Ota-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter referred to as our company) is the operator of the policy realization platform “issues”
(hereinafter referred to as “issues”) that allows anyone to consult with local legislators about their problems. ) carried out a survey on information to refer to when selecting voters in city council elections.
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Online information is key to voter selection
This time, we conducted a survey of 168 issues users, and 92.9% answered that they refer to online interactions on issues when selecting voters.
In addition, 64.3% of respondents said that following the paper election bulletin, they would refer to members’ posts on SNS, blogs, YouTube, etc. when selecting voters. This shows that online
interactions and information play a major role in voter selection. In recent years, an increasing number of legislators have begun disseminating information not only through traditional methods such as street speeches and paper media, but also online. It is expected that this kind of information dissemination and exchange will hold the key to the unified local elections in April.
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* Conducted for issues users in their teens to 70s
*Survey period: 2022/10/14-2022/11/16
*Number of valid responses: 168
74.6% of users improved their political participation awareness through the use of issues
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Of the 110 users who answered, “Before I started using issues, I thought that the voices of ordinary citizens like myself would not reach legislators,” 74.6% said, I have come to feel that there are legislators who will listen to me.”
Through issues, the voices of the general public reach lawmakers, and they feel that they will take action to solve problems, and you can see that their awareness of participating in politics is changing.
What is an issue
“Issues ～Solutions for living problems together～” is a policy realization platform that connects residents and legislators. Resident users can easily consult local councilors about their problems. Members of parliamentary users can grasp the policy needs of local residents and report that they have made efforts to solve problems, leading to increased support. More than 90% of resident users refer to the exchanges on issues when choosing who to vote for in the next election.
So far, it has been used by more than 30,000 people, mainly
nonpartisan people in their 20s to 40s living in Tokyo, and 300 city councils and prefectural councils belonging to various political parties (Liberal Democratic Party, Komei, Constitutional, National, Ishin, Communist, independent, etc.) There are more than one person registered.
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For city and prefectural assembly members who want to be used as member users Please register from the link below or contact us by email at politicalian-contact@the-issues.jp.
https://the-issues.jp/seijika.html?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=officialUpdate&utm_campaign=2302touhyousakisentei
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