Thread by @Nihonpolitics

🇯🇵🗳️🚨The campaign for the 49th Election to the House of Representatives started today in Japan.

13 days left.

This will be the first national election I follow since I became interested in JP politics. Sadly It won't be in Japan, but let's learn & have fun together from afar!

+1000 candidates:
18% women♀️

9 main political parties:
LDP
Komeito
CDP
JCP
DPFP
SDP
Ishin
Reiwa
antiNHK

465 seats:
289 Single-Member Districts
176 Regional Proportional list seats

✅233 seats for a majority

🤔📊Right out of the gate:

First prediction about the election results (19/10/21):

LDP 238
Komeito 32

CDP 131
JCP 20
DPFP 15
SDP 1
Reiwa 1

Ishin 23

What do you think? #JapanPolitics #JapanDecides2021 #JapanElection21

To start the coverage of the election, two essential readings from @TokyoReview:

First, this preview by @CoreyJWallace about the state of the race and how the LDP arrives to the election:
tokyoreview.net/2021/10/japans… #JapanPolitics

@TokyoReview @CoreyJWallace Second, @Seitanical on the unprecedented efforts of the different Opposition parties to unify and coordinate candidates in an election for the House of Representatives.

Just a first step in a long process of going back to power. tokyoreview.net/2021/10/japans…

@TokyoReview @CoreyJWallace @Seitanical To start the campaign, definitely check out this long thread I made in August about the 47 prefectures of Japan and some of the most interesting districts of the country.

What a trip!🗾🛤️

https://twitter.com/Nihonpolitics/status/1432441020025905153

In this thread I will add some of the tweets from politicians around Japan in the campaign trail!

Follow below 👇👇

Maverick Nakamura Kishiro, a former member of the LDP, launchig his campaign in Ibaraki as part of the CDP now.

'People over party' he says, showing his local strength, and a truck full of posters from fellow Opposition politicians today. #茨城7区

https://twitter.com/KishiroNakamura/status/1450761945171202048?t=Lx5yHOPe0Rexkc4OpRWxiw&s=19

Koike Akira, Secretariat of the Japanese Communist Party visited #沖縄１区 Okinawa to support Akamine Seiken, the party's lone incumbent in a district. He has tough race ahead in search of a third term: In the two previous elections, he took only 39%.

https://twitter.com/DoguchiNoriyuki/status/1450406708195430401?t=UUGbC3T8Se7_MKlhOfzxJw&s=19

🚨🇯🇵🗳️🚨Two of the main Japanese newspapers are out today with their first, largely similar, analysis of the election:

The LDP majority of +233 seats is AT RISK in this election for the first time in 20 years. Wow

Yomiuri: yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugi…
Nikkei: nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…