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. MIE PREFECTURE (5 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 90,381 44.4 123,449 69.2 132,109 62.0 51,168 32.7 JCP 11,157 05.5 12,561 07.0 13,562 06.4 10,761 06.9 LDP 101,911 50.1 42,430 23.8 67,247 31.6 94,379 60.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 203,449 178,440 212,918 156,308 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Jiro Kawasaki (LDP) District 2: Masaharu Nakagawa (DP) District 3: Katsuya Okada (DP) District 4: Norihisa Tamura (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 71,937 37.0 JCP 8,521 04.4 LDP 111,840 57.6 etc 1,928 01.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 194,226 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Norio Mitsuya (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 469,044 49.6 +09.3 2 JCP 56,562 06.0 -03.4 - LDP 417,807 44.2 +03.9 3 +1 etc 1,928 00.2 - -1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 945,341 5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------