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. KANAGAWA PREFECTURE (18 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 97,630 41.5 93,406 40.3 81,996 39.7 89,515 46.9 JCP 15,331 06.5 22,997 09.9 18,856 09.1 13,473 07.0 LDP 111,730 47.5 115,495 49.8 91,207 44.1 74,267 38.9 SDP 10,243 04.3 - 10,158 04.9 - etc - - 4,489 02.1 13,706 07.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 234,934 231,898 206,607 190,961 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Jun Matsumoto (LDP) District 2: Yoshihide Suga (LDP) District 3: Hachiro Okonogi (LDP) District 4: Hisako Oishi (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 123,905 50.3 81,733 36.8 96,479 46.6 80,752 38.7 JCP 30,770 12.5 13,538 06.1 16,796 08.1 9,801 04.7 Kt - 82,269 37.0 - - LDP 91,513 37.2 - 93,857 45.3 39,434 18.9 SDP - 13,854 06.2 - - etc - 30,689 13.8 - 78,782 37.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 246,188 222,083 207,132 208,769 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Keishu Tanaka (DP) District 6: Isamu Ueda (Kt) District 7: Nobuhiko Suto (DP) District 8: Tetsundo Iwakuni (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9 District 10 District 11 District 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 78,590 50.4 89,752 37.6 46,290 19.7 75,826 39.4 JCP 14,409 09.2 34,003 14.2 13,632 05.8 11,280 05.9 LDP 57,457 36.8 114,766 48.1 174,374 74.4 73,767 38.3 SDP - - - 26,954 14.0 etc 5,596 03.6 - - 4,617 02.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 156,052 238,521 234,296 192,444 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9: Hirofumi Ryu (DP) District 10: Kazunori Tanaka (LDP) District 11: Junichiro Koizumi (LDP) District 12: Ikko Nakatsuka (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 13 District 14 District 15 District 16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 86,256 35.2 97,214 43.7 76,967 30.9 82,967 36.7 JCP 19,431 07.9 14,915 06.7 16,122 06.5 17,877 07.9 LDP 139,236 56.8 81,794 36.7 148,955 59.9 125,067 55.4 SDP - 26,508 11.9 - - etc - 2,134 00.9 6,674 02.7 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 244,923 222,565 248,718 225,911 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 13: Akira Amari (LDP) District 14: Hirohisa Fujii (DP) District 15: Taro Kono (LDP) District 16: Yoshiyuki Kamei (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 17 District 18 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 81,900 34.7 64,879 38.0 JCP 18,690 07.9 13,084 07.7 LDP 135,206 57.3 58,001 33.9 SDP - 5,610 03.3 etc - 15,136 08.8 etc - 13,267 07.8 etc - 875 00.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 235,796 170,852 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 17: Yohei Kono (LDP) District 18: Takeshi Hidaka (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 1,526,057 38.9 +04.6 8 JCP 315,005 08.0 -04.3 - Kt 82,269 02.1 +00.8 1 +1 LDP 1,726,126 44.0 +07.8 9 SDP 93,327 02.4 -02.4 - etc 175,965 04.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,918,749 18 +1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------