{"id":466587,"date":"2026-02-08T14:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:39:13","slug":"japan-election-japans-ldp-set-for-landslide-victory-securing-sole-majority-expected-to-win-over-300-seats-with-jip-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466587\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Election: Japan\u2019s LDP Set for Landslide Victory, Securing Sole Majority; Expected to Win Over 300 Seats with JIP (UPDATE 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">The Yomiuri Shimbun<\/p>\n<p class=\"postdate\">20:00 JST,\u2002February 8, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Democratic Party is set to win over 233 seats to gain a majority on its own in Sunday\u2019s House of Representatives election, according to exit polls by The Yomiuri Shimbun and others.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling coalition of the LDP and the Japan Innovation Party is expected to win over 300 seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single_selectArticleWrapper_title\">You may also like to read<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"single_selectArticleWrapper_link\" href=\"https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/politics\/election\/20260208-309906\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan\u2019s Opposition CRA Set to Lose Seats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yomiuri Shimbun 20:00 JST,\u2002February 8, 2026 The Liberal Democratic Party is set to win over 233 seats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-466587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}