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. NARA PREFECTURE (4 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 79,529 47.9 83,168 48.4 58,222 34.1 49,077 28.5 JCP 20,010 12.0 15,044 08.7 14,219 08.3 10,614 06.1 LDP 66,538 40.1 73,646 42.8 81,345 47.6 112,714 65.4 SDP - - 16,939 09.9 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 166,077 171,858 170,725 172,405 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Sumio Mabuchi (DP) District 2: Tetsuji Nakamura (DP) District 3: Shinsuke Okuno (LDP) District 4: Ryotaro Tanose (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 269,996 39.6 +03.2 2 +2 JCP 59,887 08.8 -04.6 - LDP 334,243 49.1 +04.3 2 -2 SDP 16,939 02.5 -00.9 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 681,065 4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------