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Sanae Takaichi is on track to secure a crushing victory in Japan’s snap general election as voting closes on Sunday.
Exit polls project that the prime minister’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, could win a combined total of 366 seats.
That margin would give Takaichi and the coalition overwhelming control of Japan’s 465-seat lower house of parliament.
The LDP’s success comes at the expense of the newly formed Centrist Reform Alliance bloc, which is projected to have lost about half the seats its members held before Sunday’s election.
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