NHK Exit Poll Projects Main Opposition LDP to Win Majority of Seats in Japan Election A boy places his grandmother's vote into a ballot box at a polling station in Tokyo, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Voters cast their ballots Sunday in parliamentary elections which are likely to hand power back to a conservative party that ruled Japan for most of the post-war era. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) Close NHK exit poll projects main opposition LDP to win majority of seats in Japan election.