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. ISHIKAWA PREFECTURE (3 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 99,868 48.1 82,069 39.8 66,240 37.4 JCP 10,567 05.1 9,342 04.5 7,972 04.5 LDP 97,075 46.8 114,541 55.6 102,864 58.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 207,510 205,952 177,076 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Ken Okuda (DP) District 2: Yoshiro Mori (LDP) District 3: Tsutomu Kawara (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 248,177 42.0 +19.9 1 +1 JCP 27,881 04.7 -01.4 - LDP 314,480 53.2 -07.4 2 -1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 590,538 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------