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Although the Liberal Democrats received only 249 of the 256 seats needed for a majority, reischauer said he expects the 21 independents and 17 Liberal Club members elected to cooperate with the larger party. He added that with the additional support, the Liberal Democrats have the 271 seats they need to maintain comfortable control of house committees...
...election's overall movement was toward the center, Reischauer said, adding that Liberal Democrats and the Japanese Communist Party both lost substantially, while less extreme groups such as the Liberal Club, the Japanese Socialist Party and the Komeito, or "clean government" party, all gained...
...Reischauer said although it is unlikely that any of these groups will take over the position of the slipping Liberal Democratic Party, he predicted a breakup of that party within the next five years and its replacement by a center coalition...
Seventeen of 25 Liberal Club candidates were elected, a result Reischauer called "phenomenal...
...general, however, the Lockheed affair had little effect on the election, Reischauer said. Vogel noted that former Prime Minister Tanaka, who was indicted in the Lockheed proceedings, was re-elected by a wide margin in his district, while Osamu Inaba, the chief prosecutor of the hearings, won in his, but by only a very slight margin