Voting for the 26th House of Councilors election closes at 8 pm.
In this election, which was launched last fall and the evaluation of the Kishida administration was questioned, former Prime Minister Abe fired at the end of the controversy over measures against rising prices and diplomatic security policies in response to the situation in Ukraine. He died after being shot in, and it was an unusual election contest.
In addition to the status of ballot counting in each region, including information on the predicted seats of each party and the certainty of winning, the reaction of each party will be updated as needed until all seats are confirmed.
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Movement of each party leader
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Izumi, the representative of the Constitutional Democratic Party, entered the party headquarters where the party's ballot counting center is located at 7:00 pm.
The highest number of voters in early voting
In this House of Councilors election, the number of people who voted before the deadline was about 19.61 million, which is more than 18% of all voters, an increase of 2.55 million compared to the previous election three years ago, which is the highest number ever for the House of Councilors election. I did.
Voter turnout as of 16:00 23.01% (0.29P ↑ compared to the previous time)
The national turnout compiled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is 23.01% as of 4:00 pm, 0.29 points higher than the previous election three years ago.