More than half of those elected in Sunday's House of Councilors election support or condone Japan's deployment of troops in Iraq, while almost four in 10 have flawed pension payment records, according to a Kyodo News survey.

The poll results also show that almost 60 percent of those elected believe the nation's various pension schemes should be unified.

The survey was conducted prior to Sunday's voting on all of the candidates who ran in the election. Only the answers of the 121 who were elected were analyzed.