The projected victory of the ruling coaltion, however, does not necessarily mean that the prime minister or his policies are popular, multiple polls showed.
An opinion poll by Nikkei, a major Japanese financial newspaper, though also projecting that Abe's ruling coalition would win 300 seats, showed that support rate for the prime minister's cabinet was only 37 percent, overtaken by the disapproval rate of 48 percent.
A different poll by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper showed that although Abe is expected to win the election, 51 percent of the respondents did not want Abe to remain as prime minister.
Abe has been under fire for his connection with nationalist private school operator Moritomo Gakuen, which purchased a piece of state-owned land in Osaka for only a fraction of the market price.
He has also been accused of using his influence to make the government choose Kake Educational Institution, run by a close friend of Abe's, to open a new department in a government-designated special economic zone.
Political observers have attested that the timing of the snap election was for the prime minister to avoid being grilled in the Diet over the unconcluded scandals while giving opposition parties little time to fully gear up for the election.
"There are basically two conflicts in this election: the conflict between conservative forces led respectively by Abe and Koike, and the conflict between conservative and non-conservative forces," said Professor Liu Di of Kyorin University in Tokyo.
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