Talk:Elections in Japan

Assessment

Thank you for providing the results of recent elections in such a clean format... I wonder (and I could be mistaken) if there is not more to be said about how elections are handled in general? Take a look at the length and comprehensiveness of United States Electoral College; admittedly, much of that concerns the controversy over it. But nevertheless, Japan's had enough changes to its governmental structure, electoral districts, and presumably electoral procedures to warrant a much longer article. No? LordAmeth 23:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Participation in votes

I have heard a lot about how Japan has an ultra-low participation in elections (in the 30-40% range!), but I wanted to find some proof regarding this as I'm writing a little something in time for the 2009 election. Unfortunately, the Japanese wiki page for general elections nor this page have anything whatsoever written regarding participation %'ages. Presuming this is accurate (30-40% range), this would definitely be a noteworthy thing, I'd say. To compare, Sweden has a 80-90% participation rate. 124.38.64.230 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:24, 21 August 2009 (UTC).

Election Results

Pardon me for raising this issue, but I believe that the election results have been subject to some tampering on here. The inclusion of decimal votes and at least one case of a misplaced comma bring the results into question. I don't know if the results are correct, but I'm going to try and strip out the decimal votes for now.Tyrenon (talk) 00:47, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

You are free to add an explanation of how ambunhyō/fractional votes (also non-decimal votes can be fractional votes) work. They are briefly mentioned in Elections in Japan#Ballots, voting machines and early voting --Asakura Akira (talk) 08:48, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Malapportionment debate

Apparently the courts are not that shy any more and the Upper House election is in part nullified because of voting weight disparity [1]--Bancki (talk) 09:28, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Malapportionment

The article currently states:

In 2016, a panel of experts proposed to introduce the [John Quincy] Adams apportionment method (method of smallest divisors) for apportioning House of Representatives seats to prefectures.

– and yet the page internally linked to contains no mention of either John Quincy Adams or of his apportionment method. -- Picapica (talk) 20:48, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

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