高松高裁は「合憲」　参院選１票の格差、７件目判決

　「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に反し違憲だとして、弁護士らのグループが選挙無効を求めた訴訟の判決が３１日、高松高裁であり、浜口浩裁判長は「合憲」と判断し、請求を退けた。
　二つの弁護士グループが全国の高裁・支部に起こした計１６件の訴訟で７件目の判決。これで「違憲状態」４件、「合憲」３件となった。（2022/10/31-16:55）

Takamatsu High Court in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Monday became the third court to find the House of Councillors election in July constitutional in terms of vote-value disparities.
   The ruling was the seventh on a total of 16 lawsuits filed with high courts and high court branches across the country by two groups of lawyers, which claim that the election, in which the maximum vote-value gap stood at 3.03 times, was unconstitutional.
   Four rulings have found that the Upper House poll was held in a state of unconstitutionality.
   At the Takamatsu court, Presiding Judge Hiroshi Hamaguchi pointed out the maximum disparity in the July election was lower than 3.08 times in the 2016 Upper House election, which the Supreme Court found constitutional.
   A disparity of three times or higher was limited to three constituencies, the judge added.