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. NIIGATA PREFECTURE (6 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 119,257 51.1 49,382 22.7 - 113,271 53.4 JCP 18,134 07.8 12,225 05.6 15,399 07.9 14,776 07.0 LDP 96,107 41.1 95,391 43.9 108,627 55.9 83,880 39.6 SDP - - 70,256 36.2 - etc - 56,002 25.8 - - etc - 4,132 01.9 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 233,498 217,132 194,282 211,927 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Chinami Nishimura (DP) District 2: Motohiko Kondo (LDP) District 3: Yamato Inaba (LDP) District 4: Makiko Kikuta (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP - 89,693 40.6 JCP 9,506 04.8 7,256 03.3 LDP 61,937 31.0 64,582 29.3 etc 98,112 49.1 59,116 26.8 etc 30,086 15.1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 199,641 220,647 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Makiko Tanaka District 6: Nobutaka Tsutsui (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tanaka joined the Democratic Party after the elections. Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 371,603 30.5 +11.6 3 +2 JCP 77,296 06.3 -01.2 - LDP 510,524 41.9 -04.8 2 -2 SDP 70,256 05.8 -02.3 - etc 188,332 15.5 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,218,011 6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------