In the 2024 Japanese general election, LDP had to form a coalition with Komeito, and it still lost their parliamentary majority in the lower house for the first time in 15 years, with the LDP suffering its second-worst result in its history, securing only 191 seats.

Less than a year and a half later, LDP went from a minority coalition party, dropped Komieto, and won an outright two-thirds supermajority and regaining its majority status in the chamber. The LDP’s total of at least 316 seats is the most ever won by a party in Japanese electoral history.

I do NOT like Takaichi. But she undeniably turned LDP around in a historic way. LDP was majorly suffering in 2024, and nobody could’ve foreseen this much of a comeback.