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.


OITA 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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JCP         8,646  04.0     10,590  04.8      6,521  02.7 
LDP       101,789  46.8    123,434  56.2    123,798  51.3
SDP             -           85,666  39.0    111,180  46.0
etc       105,628  48.6          -                -
etc         1,254  00.6          -                -
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Total     217,317          219,690          241,499
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District 1: Shuji Kira
District 2: Seishiro Eto (LDP) 
District 3: Takeshi Iwaya (LDP)
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Kira joined the Democratic Party after the election.

Prefecture
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Party                                        Votes      %     Change    Seats
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DP                                                   -        -23.2       -  -1
JCP                                             25,757  03.8  -01.3       -
LDP                                            349,021  51.4  -05.7       2
SDP                                            196,846  29.0  +15.7       -  -1
etc                                            106,882  15.7              1  +1
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Total                                          678,506                    3
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