JAPAN
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 9 NOVEMBER 2003
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Elections to the Shugi-In (House of Deputies)
Source: Asahi Shimbun newspaper

Parties
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* 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
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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.


IWATE PREFECTURE (4 Districts)
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          District 1       District 2       District 3       District 4
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Party     Votes    %       Votes    %       Votes    %       Votes    %
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DP         91,025  53.6     72,599  36.3     93,862  48.3    128,458  65.1
JCP         8,806  05.2     10,532  05.3     10,690  05.5     10,642  05.4
LDP        57,899  34.1    116,854  58.4     79,543  41.0     37,251  18.9
SDP        12,014  07.1          -                -           20,936  10.6
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Total     169,744          199,985          194,095          197,287
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District 1: Takuya Tasso (DP)
District 2: Shunichi Suzuki (LDP) 
District 3: Toru Kikawada (DP)
District 4: Ichiro Ozawa (DP) 
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Prefecture
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Party                                        Votes      %     Change    Seats
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DP                                             389,944  51.6  +48.7       3  +3
JCP                                             40,670  05.4  -00.4       -
LDP                                            291,547  38.6  -01.4       1  -1
SDP                                             32,950  04.4  -07.9       -
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Total                                          755,111                    4
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The Liberal Party won 40.0% of the vote and two seats in this prefecture in 
2000.