Last year's House of Councilors election 1-vote disparity proceedings Supreme Court decision on November 18 18:12 on October 28
The Supreme Court has decided to hand down a ruling on November 18 in a case where the one-vote gap in the Upper House election last year is unconstitutional or disputed.
In the Upper House election last July, there was a difference of up to 3.002 times in the number of voters per member depending on the constituency, and two groups of lawyers called for invalidation of the election because it was unconstitutional.
In the high court decisions in each region, there were 14 "constitutional" judgments that did not violate the Constitution and 2 "unconstitutional" judgments, neither of which allowed the election to be invalid.
The En Banc of the Supreme Court decided to hand down these cases on November 18.
In last year's election, the correction to increase the number of re-elected seats in the Saitama constituency by one will reduce the disparity from a maximum of 3.08 times to 3.002 times, and the focus will be on how the Supreme Court will judge the current situation of the disparity and the efforts of the Diet. It becomes.