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. HIROSHIMA PREFECTURE (7 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 56,072 33.0 81,382 37.5 - 49,784 31.6 JCP 11,463 06.7 9,726 04.5 17,318 09.7 6,636 04.2 LDP 102,318 60.2 48,557 22.3 106,972 60.2 86,275 54.7 SDP - - 53,382 30.0 9,681 06.1 etc - 61,472 28.3 - 5,225 03.3 etc - 16,052 07.4 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 169,853 217,189 177,672 157,601 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Fumio Kishida (LDP) District 2: Daisuke Matsumoto (DP) District 3: Yoshitake Masuhara (LDP) District 4: Hidenao Nakagawa (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 District 7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 48,300 26.9 100,677 43.9 73,252 37.0 JCP 6,896 03.8 10,846 04.7 11,100 05.6 LDP 74,264 41.4 117,659 51.3 90,487 45.7 etc 36,170 20.2 - 23,185 11.7 etc 13,531 07.5 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 179,161 229,182 198,024 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Minoru Terada (LDP) District 6: Shizuka Kamei (LDP) District 7: Yoichi Miyazawa (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 409,467 30.9 +17.8 1 +1 JCP 73,985 05.6 -05.0 - LDP 626,612 47.3 -04.0 6 +2 SDP 63,063 04.8 -00.9 - etc 150,410 11.4 - -2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,323,537 7 +1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------