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• At dissolution, there were also 3 Independent MLAs, 1 Progressive Conservative MLA, and one vacant seat. For legal purposes, the "Progressive Conservatives" and "Wildrose Party" are running 1 candidate each.

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• Three parties are running under 5 candidates: Alberta Communist Party (4), Pro-Life Alberta (1), and the Reform Party (1). Of note, Pro-Life Alberta is the new name of the Alberta Social Credit Party.

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Today is the start of the 12 day campaigning period leading up to the October 31st Lower House election. As Japan’s elections are often overlooked by American commentators, I thought I would do a long effortpost detailing the current state of the nation’s leading conservatives and the prospects for the Japanese Left. So here you go:

With the inauguration of a new prime minister and a date for the fall’s lower house election finally set, Japan will be undergoing an important transition in the coming weeks that carries great implications for the future direction of the nation’s conservative movement and the viability of its political opposition. Though the LDP’s grasp on power is guaranteed, its victory (in a broad sense) is not. The new Kishida administration is tasked with righting the course of a party nearly wrecked upon the shores by his predecessors as he seeks to articulate his moderate vision while juggling the contesting factions and interests undergirding him, many of which are banking on his downfall. Furthermore he will be faced with an opposition movement coherent for the first time in years, anchored by the centre-left Constitutional Democrats and to a smaller extent, a newly relevant JCP.

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2020 was meant to be the great send off for Shinzo Abe. In a country that burns through prime ministers like smokers do cigarettes, Abe’s flame proved uniquely durable, lasting an improbable seven straight years amidst winds of controversy, criticism and scandal. Even if he ultimately failed to deliver on his grandfather’s dream of constitutional revision, Abe took steps to mold Japan into his vision of a “beautiful country” by further institutionalizing the power of the far right in the government and party structures. Vaulted to power in late 2012 following Fukushima and the collapse of the Democratic Party (DPJ), his administration was tasked with navigating a way out of the country’s deflationary crisis and casting off the imprints of the Lost Decades, in addition to confronting collapsing birth rates,a rapidly aging population, and an emergent China led by Xi Jinping.

Just how successful Abe was in meeting these tasks is debatable: while growing his nation’s travel industry and global cultural influence were steps in the right direction, as were the expansions of childcare programs, its hard for outside spectators to see these as anything more than bandaids masking deeper wounds. However the