Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic party has gone down to a disastrous defeat in elections to the Tokyo assembly as city governor Yuriko Koike’s new party swept to victory.
Forty-nine out of the fifty candidates standing for her Tomin First party won, and with the support of independents and minor parties she will have a comfortable majority in the 127-member assembly.
Prime minister Shinzo Abe’s LDP, previously the largest party in the assembly with 60 seats, held on to just 21 with three constituencies left to declare.
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