JAPAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 9 NOVEMBER 2003 ================================================================================ Elections to the Shugi-In (House of Deputies) Source: Asahi Shimbun newspaper Parties -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Minshu-to (Democratic Party, DP) * Nihon Kyosan-to (Japan Communist Party, JCP) * Komei-to (Clean Government Party, Komeito) * Jiyu Minshu-to (Liberal-Democratic Party, LDP) * Shakai Minshu-to (Social-Democratic Party, SDP) The House of Deputies consists of 480 members, 300 elected from single-member constituencies and 180 elected on a proportional basis from eleven multi-member constituencies known as Block constituencies. HOUSE OF DEPUTIES: VOTING BY SINGLE-MEMBER CONSTITUENCY ================================================================================ Votes and seats at prefecture level are compared with those won in the 2000 elections. Because of boundary changes comparisons at the constituency level are not possible. FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE (5 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 72,076 25.4 94,514 44.3 110,606 52.0 - JCP 15,241 05.4 9,968 04.7 7,522 03.5 10,581 05.7 LDP 98,896 34.9 108,838 51.0 94,413 44.4 78,059 42.0 etc 96,954 34.2 - - 97,014 52.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 283,167 213,320 212,541 185,654 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Tatsuo Sato (LDP) District 2: Takumi Nemoto (LDP) District 3: Koichiro Gemba (DP) District 4: Kozo Watanabe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watanabe joined the DP after the election. District 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 84,480 40.4 JCP 16,520 07.9 LDP 100,600 48.1 etc 7,418 03.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 209,018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Goji Sakamoto (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 361,676 32.8 +04.1 1 JCP 59,832 05.4 -01.4 - LDP 480,806 43.6 +00.6 3 etc 201,386 18.2 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,103,700 5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------