By-elections in the Shizuoka and Yamaguchi constituencies of the House of Councilors, which were the first national elections for the Kishida Cabinet, will be voted on the 24th.
Both the ruling and opposition parties have positioned it as a prelude to the lower house election, which is about to be counted a week later, and the results are expected to affect the lower house election.
The by-elections of the Shizuoka and Yamaguchi constituencies of the House of Councilors, which were the first national elections for the Kishida Cabinet, were due to the resignation of a former member of the Liberal Democratic Party. There was a debate.
Of these, in the Shizuoka constituency, the Komeito recommended the former mayor of Gotemba of the Liberal Democratic Party, while the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Democratic Party for the People recommended unaffiliated former prefectural assembly members, and the Communist Party appointed the party prefectural committee chairman.
A week later, on the 31st of this month, the votes for the House of Representatives election are approaching, so both the ruling and opposition parties have positioned it as an outpost, and at the end of the election campaign, executives have been cheering one after another, and a fierce election campaign has been developed. rice field.
For this reason, the results of these two by-elections are also expected to affect the House of Representatives election.
Voting will begin at 7:00 am and continue until 8:00 pm, with some exceptions, and will be counted the same day.
NHK will keep you informed of the ballot counting status of the two by-elections on the Internet.