衆院選、１１７０人超が出馬予定　４６５議席懸け―時事通信集計

　時事通信は９日、第５０回衆院選の立候補予定者数を集計した。小選挙区と比例代表の合計は、前回２０２１年に立候補した１０５１人を上回る１１７０人超（うち女性２６０人超）。各党は擁立作業を続けており、候補者数はさらに増える見通しだ。
　衆院選は１５日公示、２７日投開票の日程で行われる。定数は４６５で、過半数は２３３となる。
　小選挙区では定数２８９に対し、１０６０人超が準備を進める。自民党は公明党が候補を出す１１選挙区を除いて調整をほぼ終えていたが、派閥裏金事件に絡んで１２人を公認しないと決定した。一部は出馬を断念。無所属で立候補する場合、党として対抗馬は立てない方針だ。
　立憲民主党は２００人超、共産党は約２１０人の候補を擁立しており、その結果、１４０程度の選挙区で両党が競合する。日本維新の会の候補も約１６０人に上り、与野党の事実上の一騎打ちとなっているのは４０選挙区程度にとどまる。国民民主党は約４０選挙区に立てる予定だ。
　比例代表（重複立候補を除く）は定数１７６に対し、約１１０人が出馬を予定している。（2024/10/09-21:38）

Over 1,170 people are currently planning to run in the Oct. 27 election for Japan's House of Representatives, the all-important lower chamber of the country's parliament, exceeding the 1,051 candidates in the previous Lower House election in 2021, a Jiji Press survey showed Wednesday.
   There may be more contestants for 465 seats up for grab in the snap election, as each political party is still continuing candidate selection work.
   Of the potential candidates at present, more than 1,060 are preparing for battles in 289 single-seat constituencies.
   The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had picked candidates in all but 11 constituencies where its coalition partner, Komeito, intends to fight on its own. But the LDP newly decided not to issue party tickets to 12 of members who got punished for not booking kickbacks from their factions or other shady income in their political funds reports. Some such money scandal-tainted LDP members have abandoned their bids for re-election this time.
   The leading opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Japanese Communist Party are planning to field over 200 and around 210 candidates, respectively. The two parties, which formed an electoral alliance in the previous Lower House election, will likely lock horns with each other in some 140 constituencies.