７月参院選は「合憲」　「著しい不平等ではない」―名古屋高裁

　「１票の格差」が最大３．０３倍だった７月の参院選は投票価値の平等を定めた憲法に違反するとして、弁護士グループが選挙無効を求めた訴訟の判決が２５日、名古屋高裁であり、土田昭彦裁判長は「著しい不平等状態にあったとは言えず、憲法に違反しない」と述べ、請求を棄却した。
　二つの弁護士グループが全国１４の高裁・支部に起こした計１６件の訴訟で３件目の判決。大阪、東京両高裁は「違憲状態」としており、合憲判断は初めて。（2022/10/25-19:59）

Nagoya High Court ruled on Tuesday that the House of Councillors election in July was not held in a "state of unconstitutionality" in terms of vote-value disparities.
   Over vote-value gaps in the July election, a total of 16 lawsuits have been filed with 14 high courts and high court branches across the country by two groups of lawyers.
   Tuesday's ruling was the third on the series of lawsuits. The Nagoya court was the first to find the Upper House poll constitutional. Osaka and Tokyo high courts ruled earlier that the election was held in a state of unconstitutionality.
   At the Nagoya court, Presiding Judge Akihiko Tsuchida admitted that the maximum vote-value gap in the July election expanded slightly from the 3.00 times in the previous poll, held in 2019.
   However, the judge pointed out that the maximum vote-value gap, which had stayed around five times for several decades, has remained on a shrinking trend under the 2018 revised public office election law.