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. HOKKAIDO PREFECTURE (12 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 143,987 55.4 107,840 45.6 114,131 46.8 100,883 49.0 JCP 25,995 10.0 24,259 10.3 18,537 07.6 20,827 10.1 LDP 89,758 34.5 83,573 35.3 111,252 45.6 83,994 40.8 etc - 18,227 07.7 - - etc - 2,531 01.1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 259,740 236,430 243,920 205,704 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Takahiro Yokomichi (DP) District 2: Wakio Mitsui (DP) District 3: Satoshi Arai (DP) District 4: Yoshio Hachiro (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 120,192 43.7 111,656 39.9 72,508 42.2 106,709 42.2 JCP 25,603 09.3 18,144 06.5 13,617 07.9 15,980 06.3 LDP 129,035 46.9 112,270 40.1 85,585 49.8 74,842 29.6 etc - 37,518 13.4 - 55,400 21.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 274,830 279,588 171,710 252,931 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Nobutaka Machimura (LDP) District 6: Hiroshi Imazu (LDP) District 7: Naoto Kitamura (LDP) District 8: Seiichi Kaneta (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9 District 10 District 11 District 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 141,442 50.0 121,516 49.3 - 82,731 38.0 JCP 22,382 07.9 18,456 07.5 16,235 09.0 16,686 07.7 LDP 118,958 42.1 106,560 43.2 112,210 62.0 118,258 54.3 SDP - - 52,395 29.0 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 282,782 246,532 180,840 217,675 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9: Yukio Hatoyama (DP) District 10: Tadamasa Kodaira (DP) District 11: Shoichi Nakagawa (LDP) District 12: Tsutomu Takebe (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 1,223,595 42.9 +09.8 7 +1 JCP 236,721 08.3 -05.9 - LDP 1,226,295 43.0 -04.3 5 -2 SDP 52,395 01.8 +01.2 - etc 113,676 04.0 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,852,682 12 -1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------