The first exit polls in Japan’s legislative elections have stripped the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of the parliamentary majority it had enjoyed since 2009.
These first polls worsen the forecasts of the country’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, who entrusted his government partner, Komeito, to preserve the majority. However, polls by the public broadcaster NHK are limited to showing a joint range of between 174 and 254 seats for both parties, which need 233 seats to control the chamber without problems.
The opposition represented in the Constitutional Democratic Party could reach between 128 and 191 seats. At best, more than double the 98 seats which he currently enjoys.
The forecasts are repeated in other exit polls such as the carried out by the newspaper ‘Yomiuri Shimbun’the television conglomerate NTV and the Japanese news agency Kyodo.
Regarding the participation data and in the absence of definitive figures, the Ministry of the Interior and Communications has estimated an attendance of 29.01 percent until 6:00 p.m., local time, two points lower than the 2021 elections by then.
The PLD attended these elections at a time of historic lows in popularity, particularly due to a recent scandal of illegal enrichment at the expense of the contributions of its supporters and Ishiba precisely assumed control of the match last month as a way to break with the scandal that ended up costing his predecessor, Fumio Kishida, his position.
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