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. KYOTO PREFECTURE (6 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 63,487 32.1 73,934 49.7 84,052 46.8 72,665 33.3 JCP 50,762 25.6 26,768 18.0 30,861 17.2 36,980 17.0 LDP 83,644 42.3 47,962 32.3 64,762 36.0 108,209 49.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 197,893 148,664 179,675 217,854 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Bunmei Ibuki (LDP) District 2: Seiji Maehara (DP) District 3: Kenta Izumi (DP) District 4: Hideo Tanaka (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 36,702 22.3 117,467 46.9 JCP 24,389 14.8 32,499 13.0 LDP 103,486 62.9 100,541 40.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 164,577 250,507 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP) District 6: Kazunori Yamanoi (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 448,307 38.7 +12.4 3 +2 JCP 202,258 17.4 -07.2 - LDP 508,604 43.9 -00.8 3 -2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,159,169 6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------