- ELECTIONS
Japan’s Ruling Party Wins 1 But Loses 1 in Sunday’s Diet By-Elections

Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi speaks to reporters in LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday.
1:00 JST, October 23, 2023
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party won one by-election but lost one of the two races for both chambers of the Diet being held on Sunday.
In the House of Representatives’ Nagasaki No. 4 Constituency, LDP candidate Yozo Kaneko defeated Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan candidate Seiichi Suetsugu.
In the Tokushima-Kochi Constituency of the House of Councillors, Hajime Hirota, an opposition-backed independent candidate, defeated LDP candidate Ken Nishiuchi.

Oppsition-backed independent Hajime Hirota holds up a sea bream to celebrate his projected victory in the by-election for the Tokushima-Kochi Constituency in Kochi on Sunday.
The by-elections were viewed as a litmus test of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s strength in general elections.
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