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. NAGANO PREFECTURE (5 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 111,821 42.6 108,397 43.0 150,203 58.5 50,651 31.1 JCP 32,757 12.5 18,038 07.1 28,083 10.9 15,286 09.4 LDP 118,065 44.9 98,756 39.2 78,364 30.5 70,618 43.4 SDP - 26,865 10.6 - 26,211 16.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 262,643 252,056 256,650 162,766 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Kenji Kosaka (LDP) District 2: Mitsu Shimojo (DP) District 3: Tsutomu Hata (DP) District 4: Shigeyuki Goto (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 70,507 34.2 JCP 20,679 10.0 LDP 108,567 52.7 etc 6,408 03.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 206,161 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Ichiro Miyashita (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 491,579 43.0 +03.6 2 +1 JCP 114,843 10.0 -05.2 - LDP 474,370 41.5 +00.2 3 -1 SDP 53,076 04.6 +00.7 - etc 6,408 00.6 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,142,276 5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------