世論 What Japan Thinks

With just a week to go to the election, for the proportional representation vote, 80% of the unaffiliated voters are still to decide, according to the Asahi Shimbun’s poll. First, the basic numbers:

Q: Which party do you want to vote for in the proportional representation vote?

LDP	23%
DPJ	16%
New Komeito	6%
Communists	4%
SDP	3%
People’s New Party, New Party Nippon	0%
Not decided	38%

Q: (For those with no party affiliation only) Which party do you want to vote for in the proportional representation vote?

LDP	7%
DPJ	8%
New Komeito	2%
SDP	1%
Not decided	67%
No answer/don’t know	15%

Still a lot of votes to play for here! On another note, Post Office privatisation has dropped 11% to 39% as being an important topic, perhaps because everyone’s got sick to death hearing about it.