自民広島県連が岸田氏に3票投じる方針　総裁選の予備選実施　地元の「面目保つ」

LDP Hiroshima Prefectural Federation Casts 3 votes for Mr. Kishida

Regarding the local votes of the LDP presidential election (voting on the 14th) to decide the successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it has been revealed that the LDP Hiroshima Prefectural Federation will cast all three votes to Fumio Kishida, the chairman of the House of Representatives Hiroshima 1st district. Prefectural officials have revealed that the primary elections, which consisted of party members and friends in the prefecture, were being counted in Hiroshima City on the 13th, and Mr. Kishida's votes were the majority.

In addition to Mr. Kishida, Secretary-General Yoshihide Suga and former Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba will run for the presidential election and will be contested by a parliamentary vote (394 votes) and a local vote with 3 votes assigned to 47 prefectures.

The Hiroshima Prefectural Federation conducts a primary election using the "D'Hondt method," which distributes three local votes according to the votes of each candidate. He called on party members and friends living in the prefecture to vote by noon on the 13th by mail. According to the prefectural executives, Mr. Kishida, who was selected locally in the primary election, got more than three times as many votes as the runner-up, so he got all three local votes based on the D'Hondt method. The number of voters was 27,443, and the turnout was 70.49%.

The presidential election was reportedly led by Mr. Suga, who received support from five of the seven factions in the party, and another Hiroshima prefectural executive said, "I kept the face of Hiroshima. I can also face Mr. Kishida with all my might proudly."

Source: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20200913/k00/00m/010/219000c