In the subsequent Kyoto gubernatorial election in 1978, Toshimasa SUGIMURA, the candidate to succeed him was defeated by Yukio HAYASHIDA who was backed by the LDP, and the twenty-eight years of reformist government ended.
その後の1978年京都知事選で、後継の杉村敏正候補が自民推薦の林田悠紀夫に敗れ、28年の革新府政は終わりをむかえた。