Japanese conservatives win landslide supermajority in parliamentary election | Eastern NC Now

Japan's new Prime Minister Takaichi, the country's first female leader and its most conservative since World War II, took over in the middle of a term when her predecessor resigned, and gambled on calling an early election for parliament.  The voters rewarded her with a landslide election for her party and coalition.

Takaichi's  Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),  the country's traditional conservatives despite its name were allied with the populist nationalist right Japan Innovation Party with a majority in the lower house, but lacked a majority in the upper house going into the election.  The election gave them a supermajority in the lower house, which will allow them to override any legislation blocked by the upper house.

The election saw the LDP win 316 of parliament's 485 seats, a gain of 125 seats, while the main opposition Centrist Reform Party won only 49, a loss of 123 seats.  The Japan Innovation Party was third with 34 seats.  The center-left Democrat People's Party was fourth with 28 seats.  The ultra conservative Saracito Party was fifth with 15 seats, a gain of 12, and a new technocratic party, Team Mirai won 11 seats.

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