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. OKAYAMA PREFECTURE (5 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 63,463 35.7 69,190 42.6 48,010 25.6 66,139 35.7 JCP 11,951 06.7 14,357 08.8 13,276 07.1 14,367 07.7 LDP 102,318 57.6 78,643 48.5 125,949 67.3 104,653 56.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 177,732 162,190 187,235 185,159 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Ichiro Aisawa (LDP) District 2: Akihiko Kumashiro (LDP) District 3: Takeo Hiranuma (LDP) District 4: Ryutaro Hashimoto (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 69,908 38.3 JCP 8,482 04.6 LDP 104,052 57.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 182,442 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Yoshitaka Murata (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 316,710 35.4 +06.5 - JCP 62,433 07.0 -02.5 - LDP 515,160 57.6 -02.8 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 894,303 5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------