In Japan, voting is underway for elections to the lower house. Of the 465 seats up for grabs in the country’s 50th House of Representatives election, 289 will go to directly elected lawmakers from single-seat constituencies nationwide, while another 176 winners will come through a proportional representation system that divides the country into 11 constituencies.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who heads the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), has set a modest goal of retaining at least 233 seats for the ruling coalition, enough to maintain a majority in the powerful lower chamber of Parliament.
Since the 2012 election, when the LDP returned to power, it has won a majority in the 465-seat lower house on its own in four consecutive elections.
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