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Results early Monday showed that the LDP, which had 198 seats before the election, had won 316 seats, giving it a higher proportion of representatives in the Lower House than any other party in postwar Japan.googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1499653692894-0'); });

Together with its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party (JIP), the bloc had won 352 seats, significantly expanding its majority of 233.

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