Voters are unhappy over an LDP funding scandal and inflation.
Losing the majority in the Lower House would force Mr Shigeru Ishiba, in office for just a month, into power-sharing negotiations with smaller parties.
“He’ll be considerably weakened as a leader, his party will be weakened in the policies that it particularly wants to focus on, because bringing in a coalition partner will cause them to have to make certain compromises with that party, whatever party it may be,” said Mr Jeffrey Hall, an expert on Japanese politics at the Kanda University of International Studies.
The LDP will remain easily the biggest force in parliament, polls indicate, but it could lose many votes to the number two party, the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, which toppled the LDP in 2009, the Asahi said, estimating he CDPJ could win as many as 140 seats.
The DPP calls for halving Japan’s 10 per cent sales tax until real wages rise, a policy not endorsed by the LDP, while the Innovation Party has pledged tougher donation rules to clean up politics.
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