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. GUMMA PREFECTURE (5 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 68,960 32.0 57,331 32.4 67,087 40.3 48,427 30.4 JCP 16,126 07.5 10,847 06.1 8,019 04.8 11,815 07.4 LDP 130,242 60.5 76,779 43.4 91,330 54.9 98,903 62.1 etc - 32,037 18.1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 215,328 176,994 166,436 159,145 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Koji Omi (LDP) District 2: Takashi Sasagawa (LDP) District 3: Yoshio Yatsu (LDP) District 4: Yasuo Fukuda (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP - JCP 15,674 08.3 LDP 144,848 76.9 SDP 27,693 14.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 188,215 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Yuko Obuchi (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 241,805 26.4 +04.3 - JCP 70,481 07.7 -01.8 - LDP 542,102 59.3 +00.7 5 SDP 27,693 03.0 -00.7 - etc 32,037 03.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 914,118 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------