Takaichis Ruling Bloc Projected to Win Large Majority in Japans Lower House: Exit Poll

LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki and other lawmakers put paper roses on a board displaying the names of elected LDP candidates at the LDP headquarters on general election day in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 8, 2026. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool via Getty ImagesJapanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ruling coalition is projected to secure a single-party majority in a critical parliamentary election on Feb. 8, according to exit poll results cited by NHK public television and other major networks.Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and its coalition partner—the Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin—may win as many as 366 of the lower house’s 465 seats, a landslide supermajority that would pave the way for her legislative agenda, NHK projected. In Japan’s two-chamber parliament, the lower house has more power, giving it more control over governing policy.