Japan’s ruling party, led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, is on course to win Sunday’s snap election by a landslide, the BBC reports.
The coalition led by Takaichi’s Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) has won 352 of 465 seats in Japan’s House of Representatives, figures collated by public broadcaster NHK suggest, with the LDP alone securing a majority of 316.
The country’s first female prime minister had sought a clear public mandate by calling the election just four months after becoming party leader.
Her apparent success is in marked contrast to her two predecessors, under whom the party lost its parliamentary majority due to corruption scandals and rising costs.
