 In that election, Komei redirected 10.34 percent of the SMD vote it could have won to the LDP, allowing for overwhelming vote differential between DPJ and the LDP to emerge.If the Komei's vote had gone to the DPJ, the LDP and DPJ gap in share of the vote in the SMD tier would not have been significant.Although the significance of Koenkai had diminished as compared to pre-reform, the Koenkai withstood the electoral reform fairly well.