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The presidential election of the Liberal Democratic Party took place on September 27, with the voting day for members of parliament and the counting of votes of party members and friends beginning in Miyagi Prefecture. Voter turnout was 69.55%, lower than the previous record level. Reporter: “It’s already 10 o’clock in the morning. The LDP Miyagi Prefectural League has begun counting votes.” Voting in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential elections will take place on the afternoon of September 27. Before that, at the Miyagi Prefectural Federation of the Liberal Democratic Party in Sendai City’s Aoba Ward, prefectural federation officials are working to count votes for party members and friends. In this presidential election, a total of 736 votes were cast, including 368 votes for members of parliament and 368 votes for party members and friends of the party. Votes for party members and friends of the party are counted by party headquarters and distributed among candidates using what is called the D’Hondt Masu method. Miyagi Prefecture had 13,206 party members and friends, and the turnout was 69.55%, down 4.69 percentage points from the previous record. The Federation of Prefectures plans to report the number of votes for each candidate to party headquarters once the counting process is completed.