Japan PM Kishida's coalition keeps majority with fewer seats

Kishida's Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito together won 293 seats, according to final but not yet official results. That's well above the majority of 233 in the 465-member lower house, the more powerful of Japan's two-chamber Diet, where they previously had 305 seats.

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