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. KOCHI PREFECTURE (3 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 36,333 34.8 31,377 25.5 33,208 24.7 JCP 20,302 19.4 18,927 15.4 16,981 12.6 LDP 43,232 41.4 72,504 59.0 84,287 62.7 SDP 4,531 04.3 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 104,398 122,808 134,476 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Teru Fukui (LDP) District 2: Gen Nakatani (LDP) District 3: Yuji Yamamoto (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 100,918 27.9 +09.9 - JCP 56,210 15.5 -01.8 - LDP 200,023 55.3 +06.9 3 SDP 4,531 01.2 -06.4 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 361,682 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------