Disparity of 1 vote in the Upper House “Does not violate the Constitution” Fukuoka High Court Decision November 8th 17:51
In fact, the Fukuoka High Court violated the Constitution, saying that the disparity of the so-called one vote in the House of Councilors election in July was up to three times, saying that “there was no significant inequality that caused unconstitutional problems”. I told him not to do it.
However, in the House of Councilors election in July, there is a maximum difference of 3.002 times in the number of voters per member of the constituency, and lawyers and other groups disagree with the elections as violating the voting value equality and violating the constitution. An appeal was made throughout the country.
Of these, a ruling on the five constituencies of Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Oita, and Saga was handed down by the Fukuoka High Court on the 8th.
Mr. Kazuto Nishii pointed out that the gap was slightly smaller than last time due to the revision of the Public Office Election Law last year, which can be said to be aimed at further correcting the gap.
After that, he declared that he would not violate the Constitution, saying, “It cannot be said that there was a significant inequality that caused unconstitutional problems with voting value imbalance.”
The number of judgments issued nationwide by the 8th is now 12. There are 10 judgments for “constitutional” that do not violate the constitution and 2 for “unconstitutional”.
The disparity of one vote in the House of Councilors election was 3.08 times at the maximum in the previous election three years ago, but in this election the correction was made to increase the number of elected seats in the Saitama constituency, and the difference was 3.002 times at the maximum. It was.