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. KUMAMOTO PREFECTURE (5 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 111,205 54.2 75,517 41.8 26,317 14.1 - JCP 13,769 06.7 9,829 05.4 4,571 02.4 12,262 06.6 LDP 80,111 39.1 95,233 52.7 76,469 40.9 137,428 73.6 SDP - - - 36,977 19.8 etc - - 79,500 42.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 205,085 180,579 186,857 186,667 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Yorihisa Matsuno (DP) District 2: Takeshi Hayashida (LDP) District 3: Tetsushi Sakamoto District 4: Hiroyuki Sonoda (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 57,901 35.1 JCP 11,580 07.0 LDP 95,321 57.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 164,802 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Yasushi Kaneko (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 270,940 29.3 +14.2 1 JCP 52,011 05.6 -00.8 - LDP 484,562 52.4 +00.3 3 +1 SDP 36,977 04.0 +01.7 - etc 79,500 08.6 1 -1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 923,990 5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------