TOKYO: Tokyo voters headed to the polls on Sunday in a day seen as a litmus test ahead of national elections that could give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe an uninterrupted three years without a public vote.

Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, in partnership with the junior New Komeito, are expected to claim a comfortable majority in the 127-seat Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.

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