Overview

• The LDP won just 21 of 127 seats in Sunday’s Tokyo metropolitan assembly vote, its lowest tally on record.
• Tomin First no Kai, founded by Governor Yuriko Koike, secured 31 seats to overtake the ruling party as the assembly’s largest group.
• Voter turnout climbed to 47.6 percent, up from 42.4 percent four years ago, as a record 295 candidates—including 99 women—contested the election.
• Public anger over rising living costs and a funding scandal has driven down approval for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s government.
• The results serve as a barometer for Ishiba’s coalition ahead of the Upper House elections tentatively scheduled for July 20.