17, 1,040 candidates were set to enter the race.Īmong the 330 candidates fielded by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party, 9.7 percent are women. The law does not contain any punitive measures against parties that fall short of meeting the target.Īs of Oct. 31 election is the first for the Lower House since the law came into force. Women represent less than 20 percent of the expected candidates running in the Lower House election, despite a 2018 law that presses parties to field male and female candidates in comparable numbers.
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