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. IBARAKI PREFECTURE (7 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 77,420 35.4 55,444 29.0 92,306 44.1 - JCP 12,845 05.9 8,631 04.5 14,546 06.9 13,015 08.1 LDP 128,349 58.7 127,364 66.5 102,325 48.9 119,047 74.3 SDP - - - 28,660 17.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 218,614 191,439 209,177 160,722 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Norihiko Akagi (LDP) District 2: Fukushiro Nukaga (LDP) District 3: Yasuhiro Hanashi (LDP) District 4: Hiroshi Kajiyama (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 District 7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 74,407 52,7 74,915 33.6 44,543 29.2 JCP 7,667 05.4 17,471 07.8 9,942 06.5 LDP 59,090 41.8 130,525 58.5 97,642 64.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 141,164 222,911 152,127 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Akihiro Ohata (DP) District 6: Yuya Niwa (LDP) District 7: Yoji Nagaoka (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 419,035 32.3 +10.0 1 JCP 83,757 06.5 -01.9 - LDP 764,338 59.0 +08.2 6 +1 SDP 28,660 02.2 +00.8 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,295,790 7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------