The LDP achieved significant success, winning 316 out of 465 seats in the lower house of parliament, as reported by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK. At the time of the elections, the party held 198 seats.
The LDP's ally, the Innovation Party, also performed well, securing 36 mandates.
This success allowed the LDP to surpass the two-thirds threshold (310 seats), enabling it to reintroduce bills rejected by the upper house of parliament, where the ruling coalition does not hold a majority, as well as initiate amendments to the Constitution.
The opposition alliance, consisting of the Komeito Party and the Constitutional Democratic Party, significantly reduced its presence in parliament, decreasing its number of seats from 172 to 49.
Sanai Takahichi, commenting on the exit poll results, emphasized that she does not plan to make changes to the government. "The Cabinet was formed just over three months ago. All the ministers are people I trust. They are working actively, so I will not make changes," the EFE agency quotes her as saying.
According to NHK, this is the first time since the end of World War II that a single party has managed to obtain more than two-thirds of the seats in the lower house of Japan's parliament.
