Japan enacts law to rebalance lower house electoral districts

Japan's parliament on Friday enacted a bill to bring about the country's largest ever change to the distribution and boundaries of lower house single-seat constituencies to correct a vote-value disparity that the Supreme Court has judged to be constitutionally problematic.The bill, which was passed by the House of Councillors, aims at narrowing the vote disparity below the 2-fold level between densely and sparsely populated districts within the country.The revision to the Public Offices Election Act will add 10 single-seat electoral districts to five prefectures, while cutting one each from…READ FULL ARTICLE