LDP's Wada wins lower house by-election in Hokkaido

LDP's Wada wins lower house by-election in Hokkaido

Liberal Democratic Party candidate Yoshiaki Wada (R) celebrates in Sapporo on April 24, 2016, with his wife Naoko after winning a House of Representatives by-election in the Hokkaido No. 5 single-seat constituency. Wada holds a portrait of the LDP's Nobutaka Machimura, a former lower house speaker and foreign minister who died in 2015, and who was his father-in-law. The election was held to fill a seat vacated by his death. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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