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Japan (Fukuoka City): Voters head to the polls today in Japan's sixth-largest city. This part of the country is usually classic LDP (Conservative) country, but the mainstream opposition has emerged as its own force in this election, for the first time since 2010.
Incumbent Soichiro Takashima (Ind, *), who first won in that year, is officially fully independent, but has the backing of most of the local LDP - no mean feat in Fukuoka's fractious branches - and local Komeito (Centre-right). He faces two challengers.
His chief opponent will likely be former city councillor Shinsuke Tanaka (Ind, *), backed by CDP (Centre-left), DPP (Centre-right), and SDP (Centre-left). JCP (Left) and Reiwa (Left) have not endorsed, although politicians from both have spoken at a rally for Tanaka.
