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. HYOGO PREFECTURE (12 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 70,792 38.3 80,061 41.5 88,767 51.1 81,909 35.6 JCP 21,083 11.4 29,510 15.3 23,690 13.6 20,649 09.0 Kt - 83,379 43.2 - - LDP 71,587 38.7 - 61,263 35.3 - etc 21,423 11.6 - - 127,330 55.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 184,885 192,950 173,629 229,888 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Keisuke Sunada (LDP) District 2: Kazuyoshi Akaba (Kt) District 3: Ryuichi Doi (DP) District 4: Kiichi Inoue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inoue joined the LDP after the elections. District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 108,851 46.0 109,320 42.7 - 79,492 37.1 JCP 15,124 06.4 18,351 07.2 28,526 12.1 22,328 10.4 Kt - - - 94,406 44.1 LDP 112,437 47.5 96,410 37.6 111,216 47.1 - SDP - 32,078 12.5 96,404 40.8 17,850 08.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 236,412 256,159 236,146 214,076 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Koichi Tani (LDP) District 6: Koichiro Ichimura (DP) District 7: Shigeo Omae (LDP) District 8: Tetsuzo Fuyushiba (Kt) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9 District 10 District 11 District 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 47,406 22.3 77,009 40.7 112,898 52.6 - JCP 12,694 06.0 15,112 08.0 12,494 05.8 8,468 03.8 LDP 65,374 30.8 97,196 51.3 89,159 41.5 108,479 49.1 etc 86,631 40.8 - - 103,848 47.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 212,105 189,317 214,551 220,795 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9: Yasutoshi Nishimura District 10: Kisaburo Tokai (LDP) District 11: Takeaki Matsumoto (DP) District 12: Saburo Komoto (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 856,505 33.4 +13.8 3 JCP 228,029 08.9 -05.8 - Kt 177,785 06.9 +00.8 2 LDP 813,121 31.7 +09.5 5 +2 SDP 146,332 05.7 -03.5 - -1 etc 339,232 13.2 2 -1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,561,004 12 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------