Political conflicts by country

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm guessing the "moderate" religious cleavage in Japan has to do with SGI and thus Komeito. The only other religious aspect of Japanese voting patterns that I'm aware of is the Christian minority being to the left of the general population, and even that is a comparatively quite mild pattern (there are plenty of right-wing Japanese Christians too, up to and including the outgoing Deputy PM) that can be explained just as well by other factors such as Japanese Christians skewing downscale.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Ticino's politics are completely sui generis. Principally, in recent times, they have been marked by two major factors that are a sense of alienation and neglect from the rest of the country, and tensions around the number of Italian frontalieri who work in the canton and get blamed for lowering wages, unemployment, all the usual basically. In particular this has driven the growth of the the right-populist and regionalist Lega dei Ticinese.

The irony being I'd bet whatever you want that many Italian frontalieri vote Lega (Nord, not dei Ticinesi) and blame immigrants in Italy for all the usual.