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Japan's Fukuoka court rules 2014 election "unconstitutional"

Xinhua, March 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Japan's Fukuoka High court ruled Wednesday that last December's lower house election was " unconstitutional" due to gap in vote value between districts, local media reported.

According to government data, the vote value disparity in the election was 2.13-fold between Tokyo's No. 1 district, the country 's most populous single-seat constituency, and Miyagi Prefecture's No. 5 district.

In the ruling, Presiding Judge Takano said that the disparity of vote value runs against the Constitutional call for maintaining the equality of vote value.

Regarding the lower house election last December, two groups of lawyers have filed a total of 17 lawsuits over the vote value disparity with 14 high courts and their branches across the country.

The Supreme Court of Japan is expected to issue its ruling by the end of the year. Endi