Nippon Ishin no Kai decided Sunday to forgo a leadership election after achieving its goal of increasing the number of its local assembly seats to 600 in last month's unified local elections across the country.
The party's leader, Nobuyuki Baba, won endorsement from a majority of its members at an extraordinary party convention in the city of Osaka on the day.
The unified local elections brought the number of local government heads and assembly members from Nippon Ishin to 775, exceeding the target of 600, according to the party.