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. KAGAWA PREFECTURE (3 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 62,939 39.0 57,676 38.1 22,091 15.9 JCP 5,764 03.6 8,430 05.6 8,898 06.4 LDP 79,298 49.2 85,370 56.3 84,803 61.0 SDP 12,280 07.6 - 23,087 16.6 etc 910 00.6 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 161,191 151,476 138,879 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Takuya Hirai (LDP) District 2: Yoshio Kimura (LDP) District 3: Yoshinori Ono (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 142,706 31.6 +20.9 - JCP 23,092 05.1 -04.4 - LDP 249,471 55.2 +07.5 3 SDP 35,367 07.8 -05.4 - etc 910 00.2 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 451,546 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------