Abbreviation of 県議会議員 or 県会議員. Used in political and news contexts to refer to an elected member of a prefectural assembly.
He plans to run for a seat in the prefectural assembly.
The term of a prefectural assembly member is four years.
He was elected as a prefectural assembly member in last month's election.
My father served as a prefectural assembly member for ten years.
県議会議員 is the full, formal form used in official documents, while 県議 is the everyday abbreviation used in speech and news headlines.
県会議員 is another full, formal way to say the same thing as 県議会議員, while 県議 is the short, common abbreviation.
県議 refers to a member of a prefectural assembly, while 市議 refers to a member of a city assembly, so the two are easily confused despite naming different levels of government.
都議 is a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, whereas 県議 is a member of a prefectural assembly in one of Japan's other prefectures.
Used to count people politely, e.g. prefectural assembly members (県議).
prefectural assembly
Abbreviation of 県議会議員 (prefectural assembly member), formed by combining 県 (prefecture) and 議 (deliberation/council).