| Popis: |
This chapter examines the electoral performance of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) in the 2017 general election. The JCP lost about 30% of proportional representation (PR) votes relative to the previous election, and the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) appears to be the main recipient of the voters who left the JCP. The JCP reduced its number of single-seat district (SSD) candidates in this election, but still ran candidates in 71% of SSDs. The presence or absence of a JCP candidate in SSDs, however, does not seem to have substantially influenced the overall results. |
