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2013 June 12 - 18 [ELECTION]

All JCP candidates win in Amagasaki city assembly race

All seven Japanese Communist Party candidates on June 16 won assembly seats in Amagasaki City in Hyogo Prefecture, while all political parties concentrated hard on campaigning in the run-up to this summer’s House of Councilors election.

The JCP succeeded in maintaining its pre-election strength of seven seats in the electoral contest with 47 rivals for 42 seats, a decrease of two seats from the previous election.

During the election campaign, the JCP candidates promised to lower the burden of the national health insurance premiums payment, start a school lunch system at public junior high schools, and establish a system subsidizing the cost of renovating homes and shops.

They also called on voters to deliver a severe verdict to pro-constitutional revision forces and to vote for the JCP which has raised the banner of anti-war and peace since its founding.

Even though the voter turnout for the election fell to a record-low of 41.38%, the JCP received 18,433 votes, 1,000 votes more votes than the votes the party received in proportional representation blocs in the 2012 general election.

Meanwhile, the Japan Restoration Party decreased its number of votes obtained to 15,369 from the 62,968 votes the party obtained in the proportional representation blocs in the latest general election. Among the five JRP candidates, one failed a seat. The Your Party achieved only one seat while running three candidates in the election.