Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s party could secure a large majority of more than 300 seats in Japan’s lower house in a snap election Sunday, public broadcaster NHK projected based on exit polls.
This would give Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) more than the 233 seats needed to secure a majority, according to NHK.
Overall, the ruling coalition of the LDP and its partner, the Japan Innovation Party, is on track to secure two-thirds of the 465 seats, NHK projected.
Conservative politician Takaichi called the rare snap election just three months into her premiership.