JAPAN
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 9 NOVEMBER 2003
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Elections to the Shugi-In (House of Deputies)
Source: Asahi Shimbun newspaper

Parties
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* 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
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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.


MIYAZAKI PREFECTURE (3 Districts)
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          District 1       District 2       District 3       
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Party     Votes    %       Votes    %       Votes    %       
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DP         71,616  37.8     29,585  14.6          -
JCP         8,865  04.7      5,708  02.8     11,801  06.2
LDP        99,969  52.7          -                -
etc         9,196  04.8     88,540  43.6    118,607  62.8
etc             -           79,119  39.9     58,353  30.9
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Total     189,646          202,952          188,761
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District 1: Nariaki Nakayama (LDP)
District 2: Taku Eto 
District 3: Yoshihisa Furukawa 
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Eto and Furukawa joined the LDP after the election.

Prefecture
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Party                                        Votes      %     Change    Seats
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DP                                             101,201  17.4  -02.9       -
JCP                                             26,374  04.5  -01.0       -
LDP                                             99,969  17.2  -36.4       1  -2
etc                                            353,815  60.8              2  +2
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Total                                          581,359                    3
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