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. AICHI PREFECTURE (15 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 97,617 54.2 115,674 61.0 105,017 53.6 84,919 44.0 JCP 17,510 09.7 17,437 09.2 18,678 09.5 28,193 14.6 LDP 64,968 36.1 56,472 29.8 72,035 36.8 79,749 41.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 180,095 189,583 195,730 192,861 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Takashi Kawamura (DP) District 2: Motohisa Furukawa (DP) District 3: Shoichi Kondo (DP) District 4: Yoshio Maki (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 104,346 49.4 97,776 44.2 102,710 44.1 127,411 54.0 JCP 16,255 07.7 20,524 09.3 16,255 07.0 16,216 06.9 LDP 90,668 42.9 80,700 36.5 93,882 40.3 92,245 39.1 etc - 22,131 10.0 20,172 08.6 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 211,269 221,131 233,019 235,872 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Hirotaka Akamatsu (DP) District 6: Yukichi Maeda (DP) District 7: Kenji Kobayashi (DP) District 8: Yutaka Banno (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9 District 10 District 11 District 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 92,554 39.6 106,599 45.3 181,747 89.6 117,411 43.6 JCP 16,213 06.9 21,350 09.1 21,179 10.4 16,191 06.0 LDP - - - 135,622 50.4 etc 104,075 44.6 107,369 45.6 - - etc 20,565 08.8 - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 233,407 235,318 202,926 269,224 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9: Toshiki Kaifu District 10: Tetsuma Esaki District 11: Shinichiro Furumoto (DP) District 12: Seiken Sugiura (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kaifu and Esaki joined the LDP after the elections. District 13 District 14 District 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 109,670 46.6 91,713 52.0 84,573 42.4 JCP 11,765 05.0 8,795 05.0 14,622 07.3 LDP 114,092 48.4 76,019 43.1 100,443 50.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 235,527 176,527 199,638 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 13: Hideaki Omura (LDP) District 14: Katsumasa Suzuki (DP) District 15: Akihiko Yamamoto (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 1,619,737 50.4 +09.9 10 +1 JCP 261,183 08.1 -02.9 - LDP 1,056,896 32.9 +03.7 3 -2 etc 274,312 08.5 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,212,128 15 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------