「１０増１０減」閣議決定　公選法改正案、今国会成立へ

　政府は２１日の閣議で、衆院小選挙区を「１０増１０減」する公職選挙法改正案を決定した。「地方の声が届かなくなる」として自民党内で法案への反対論が根強かったが、１４日の党総務会で了承を得た。今国会で成立する見通しだ。
　衆院選の「１票の格差」をめぐり、最高裁は「違憲状態」と重ねて判断。これを受け、２０１６年に「アダムズ方式」という新たな議席配分方法の導入が決まり、格差を２倍未満に収めた。宮城、福島、新潟、滋賀、和歌山、岡山、広島、山口、愛媛、長崎の１０県で定数が１減る一方、東京都で５増、神奈川県で２増、埼玉、千葉、愛知各県が１増となる。（2022/10/21-11:25）

The Japanese government Friday adopted a bill to reduce vote-value disparities by redrawing single-seat constituency boundaries for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Japan's parliament.
   The bill to revise the public offices election law was approved by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's General Council on Oct. 14 despite internal opposition. It is expected to be enacted during the current parliamentary session running until December.
   Following Supreme Court rulings that found past elections to be in a state of unconstitutionality due to vote-value gaps, Japan decided in 2016 to rezone constituencies under the so-called Adams method.
   The planned redrawing will eliminate one seat each in 10 prefectures--Miyagi, Fukushima, Niigata, Shiga, Wakayama, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Ehime and Nagasaki--while five seats will be distributed to Tokyo, two to Kanagawa Prefecture and one each to Saitama, Chiba and Aichi prefectures. The move will reduce the maximum vote-value gap to under 2.0 times.
   Some LDP members had opposed the bill, arguing that it would lead to voices from regional areas not reaching parliament.