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. OKINAWA PREFECTURE (4 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 27,209 17.3 - - 38,550 31.0 JCP 19,528 12.4 6,560 04.9 6,581 04.0 18,074 14.5 Kt 58,330 37.0 - - - LDP - 47,759 35.7 62,975 38.5 67,752 54.5 SDP - 74,123 55.4 58,931 36.0 - etc 52,374 33.3 5,297 04.0 35,149 21.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 157,441 133,739 163,636 124,376 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Taiichi Shiraho (Kt) District 2: Kantoku Teruya (SDP) District 3: Chiken Kakazu (LDP) District 4: Kosaburo Nishime (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 65,759 12.8 +01.3 - JCP 50,743 09.9 -06.3 - Kt 58,330 11.4 -04.1 1 LDP 110,734 21.6 -03.1 2 +1 SDP 133,054 26.0 +13.7 1 etc 92,820 18.1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 511,449 4 +1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------