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. KAGOSHIMA PREFECTURE (5 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 79,243 43.0 - 45,308 26.6 - JCP 9,359 05.1 9,903 05.0 11,042 06.5 6,476 03.8 LDP 95,841 52.0 90,952 45.9 113,743 66.9 104,843 61.5 SDP - - - 59,075 34.7 etc - 97,423 49.1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 184,443 198,278 170,093 170,394 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Okiharu Yasuoka (LDP) District 2: Torao Tokuda District 3: Kazuaki Miyaji (LDP) District 4: Sadatoshi Ozato (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP - JCP 11,008 06.7 LDP 100,851 61.6 etc 51,885 31.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 163,744 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Hiroshi Moriyama (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 124,551 14.0 00.0 - JCP 47,788 05.4 -00.7 - LDP 506,230 57.1 -00.2 4 SDP 59,075 06.7 +00.3 - etc 149,308 16.8 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 886,952 5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------