The results of a recent public opinion survey in Japan show that 40% of the Japanese people are dissatisfied with the results of the current House of Representatives election and hope that the opposition parties will get more seats.
On the 8th local time, according to the results of a poll released by the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) TV station, 41% of the survey respondents agreed with the election results of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party with more than half of the seats, while 40% hoped that the opposition parties would get more. Among the seats, 10% hope that the Liberal Democratic Party will have more seats.
The Liberal Democratic Party won 261 of the 465 seats in the election, more than half, but 15 seats less than before the election. The pre-election polls showed that the prospect of a single majority of the Liberal Democratic Party seats is not optimistic, and the party’s president and prime minister Fumio Kishida only set the goal for a combined majority, that is, the Liberal Democratic Party and its ruling partner, the Komeito Party, have won more than half of the seats. In the end, the ruling coalition won 293 seats.
The voter turnout in the current House of Representatives election was about 56%, the third lowest since the end of World War II. According to the NHK poll, 30% of the respondents believe that the low turnout rate is due to the fact that voters do not care about politics; 25% believe that the reason is that the people have low trust in politics.
The survey results show that the support rate for the Kishida cabinet is 53%, up 5 percentage points from a week ago and the highest since he formed the cabinet in early October. Among those who supported the Kishida cabinet, 41% reasoned that it “seems to be better than other cabinets,” and 26% were out of support for political parties.
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