 Local television showed supporters of one of the LDP candidates cheering loudly when the governor's son was edged out for the fifth seat by a Komeito candidate.The LDP's factions can loosely be grouped into two main currents.They developed in the years following the "conservative merger" ("hoshu gōdō") of 1955 when Shigeru Yoshida's Liberal Party and Ichirō Hatoyama's Japan Democratic Party united to form the LDP.