More than 60 percent of the voting public does not support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to dissolve the Lower House for a snap election on Dec. 14, a poll said Thursday.

Roughly a quarter of the respondents said they would vote for Abe's Liberal Democratic Party anyway, according to the Kyodo News survey, which was conducted after he announced his decision Tuesday.

With both houses of the Diet controlled by the LDP-Komeito ruling coalition, a bare 51.4 percent majority of the respondents said they wanted to see a more balanced political landscape emerge between the ruling and opposition camps.