Polls predict big win for Japan's Liberal Democrats

Despite the weather, voters made their way to polling stations in Japan on Sunday to cast their ballots for another general election.

The latest surveys indicated a landslide win in the lower house for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

The opposition, despite the formation of a new centrist alliance and a rising far-right, is seen as too splintered to be a real challenger.

Takaichi is betting that her LDP party, together with its new partner, the Japan Innovation Party, will secure a majority in the 465-seat lower house, the more powerful of Japan's two-chamber parliament.

Recent surveys by major Japanese newspapers show a possibility that Takaichi's party could win a simple majority on its own, while her coalition could win as many as 300 seats - a big jump from a thin majority it held since a 2024 election loss.