Abe Set for Victory as Japanese Vote in Election
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Voters in Japan choose a new lower house of parliament today in an election forecast to return Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party to power after a landslide loss in 2009.
The LDP and its coalition partner New Komeito may win more than 300 of the 480 seats in the lower house, according to a Nikkei newspaper poll published Dec. 14. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s Democratic Party of Japan may secure fewer than 70, the least since the party was formed in 1998. The newspaper surveyed 26,231 people in 70 constituencies and gave no margin of error.