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. MIYAGI PREFECTURE (6 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 106,821 50.8 98,028 45.4 73,803 46.2 40,583 21.3 JCP 18,960 09.0 11,311 05.2 11,915 07.4 12,196 06.4 LDP 84,565 40.2 94,621 43.8 74,046 46.3 76,554 40.2 SDP - 9,107 04.2 - - etc - 3,019 01.4 - 61,200 32.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 210,346 216,086 159,764 190,533 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Azuma Konno (DP) District 2: Sayuri Kamata (DP) District 3: Akihiro Nishimura (LDP) District 4: Shintaro Ito (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 73,135 50.7 58,420 35.8 JCP 6,853 04.7 4,256 02.6 LDP 64,122 44.5 82,750 50.7 SDP - 17,772 10.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 144,110 163,198 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Jun Azumi (DP) District 6: Itsunori Onodera (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 450,790 41.6 +01.9 3 -1 JCP 65,491 06.0 -04.5 - LDP 476,658 44.0 -01.1 3 +1 SDP 26,879 02.5 +00.5 - etc 64,219 05.9 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,084,037 6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------