The House of Representatives election, which has issues such as measures against the new corona and rebuilding the economy, will be voted on the 31st.
After this, voting will begin at 7:00 am at more than 46,000 polling stations nationwide.
The 49th House of Representatives election will be voted on the 31st after the 12-day election campaign.
In this election, 289 small constituencies and 176 proportional representations totaled 465 seats, and 1051 people, the smallest number since 1996, when the election was held under the current single-member district proportional representation system, ran for the election.
Voting will begin at 7:00 am at more than 46,000 polling stations nationwide, with the exception of some areas such as remote islands where early voting was held by the 30th.
And the deadline is 8 pm on the 31st, except for about 17,000 places where the end time is advanced.
For the first time in four years, the House of Representatives election will take 27 days, the shortest period after the war, from the 4th of this month when Prime Minister Kishida took office to the election day. have become.
In this election, how much power can be secured between the ruling party aiming to continue the administration and the opposition party appealing for a change of power, and whether the LDP can secure a single majority that has been maintained since the 2012 lower house election. It will be the focus.
Vote counting will begin at 8:00 pm on the 31st, and it is expected that a large number of votes will be counted by the early hours of November 1st tomorrow.
In addition, the number of people who voted "early" by the 29th was 16.62 million, which is about 980,000 more than the same period of the previous House of Representatives election in 2017.
On the other hand, on the 31st, a "national examination" of judges of the Supreme Court was also held, targeting 11 judges who have been appointed since the last House of Representatives election.
If you write an "x" in the judge's name field on the ballot, you are not confident, and if you do not write anything, you are confident.
Judges with a majority of valid votes "x" will be dismissed, but no judge has been dismissed in past national reviews.
The results of the vote will be published along with the results of the House of Representatives election.
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications "Exercise one valuable vote carefully"
On the election day of the House of Representatives election, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kaneko said, "I urge voters to fully understand the significance of this general election, participate in the voting, and carefully exercise one valuable vote. I announced the discourse.
NHK's breaking news
NHK will broadcast the breaking news of the election of the House of Representatives on the general TV, the first radio broadcast, and the FM broadcast from 7:55 pm on the 31st.
In addition, the results of exit polls for all single-seat constituencies, winners / winners, and the latest ballot counting status will be posted on the special website on the Internet.
Please access the Internet from the NHK homepage.