Tokyo poll won't impact national politics-LDP quoted

TOKYO, July 12 (Reuters) - Two top officials in Japan's long-ruling party said a projected poor performance by Prime Minister Taro Aso's ruling bloc in a key Tokyo poll on Sunday would not affect national politics, Kyodo news agency reported.

Defeat for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the Tokyo assembly election, seen as a barometer for a general election due by October, would intensify moves to oust the unpopular Aso ahead of a national poll due by October.

Kyodo said Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura and LDP Secretary General Hiroyuki Hosoda spoke after media exit polls showed the main opposition Democratic Party was set to win the biggest number of seats in the Tokyo poll and that the LDP and its junior partner were in danger of losing their majority. (Reporting by Yoko Kubota, editing by Tim Pearce)