Sunday's Lower House election brought mixed results to politicians attempting to emerge from scandals.

Shiori Yamao kept her seat despite an alleged extramarital affair that forced her to quit the opposition Democratic Party.

The former prosecutor, 43, ran as an independent instead and won a third term after winning a neck-and-neck race against the Liberal Democratic Party's Junji Suzuki in the No. 7 single-seat constituency in Aichi Prefecture.