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. OSAKA PREFECTURE (19 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 64,320 36.4 56,652 29.8 79,539 37.8 92,470 44.8 JCP 24,220 13.7 36,706 19.3 33,451 15.9 26,776 13.0 Kt - - 97,552 46.3 - LDP 87,936 49.8 96,470 50.8 - 87,187 42.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 176,476 189,828 210,542 206,433 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Koki Chuma (LDP) District 2: Akira Sato (LDP) District 3: Masahiro Tabata (Kt) District 4: Osamu Yoshida (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 85,334 39.6 75,098 36.6 72,643 39.0 81,319 48.6 JCP 37,694 17.5 28,789 14.0 28,710 15.4 22,748 13.6 Kt 92,350 42.9 101,292 49.4 - - LDP - - 56,234 30.2 63,324 37.8 etc - - 19,949 10.7 - etc - - 8,701 04.7 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 215,378 205,179 186,237 167,391 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Takayoshi Taniguchi (Kt) District 6: Yutaka Fukushima (Kt) District 7: Osamu Fujimura (DP) District 8: Kansei Nakano (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9 District 10 District 11 District 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 97,572 41.8 83,077 47.1 116,834 58.2 82,190 44.5 JCP 21,491 09.2 22,978 13.0 27,557 13.7 21,023 11.4 LDP 93,662 40.2 68,646 38.9 - 81,270 44.0 SDP 9,705 04.2 - - - etc 10,678 04.6 1,600 00.9 47,835 23.8 - etc - - 8,599 04.3 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 233,108 176,301 200,825 184,483 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9: Nobumori Otani (DP) District 10: Miyoko Hida (DP) District 11: Hirofumi Hirano (DP) District 12: Shinji Tarutoko (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 13 District 14 District 15 District 16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 65,164 33.3 78,854 35.6 79,830 36.9 63,867 39.4 JCP 33,446 17.1 31,256 14.1 28,874 13.4 23,434 14.5 Kt - - - 74,718 46.1 LDP 97,311 49.7 111,543 50.3 107,323 49.7 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 195,921 221,653 216,027 162,019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 13: Akira Nishino (LDP) District 14: Takashi Tanihata (LDP) District 15: Naokazu Takemoto (LDP) District 16: Kazuo Kitagawa (Kt) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 17 District 18 District 19 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 69,861 40.3 89,930 39.5 75,369 47.2 JCP 26,236 15.1 28,417 12.5 14,962 09.4 LDP 52,258 30.1 108,996 47.9 - etc 24,937 14.4 - 42,284 26.5 etc - - 27,043 16.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 173,292 227,343 159,658 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 17: Takashi Nagayasu (DP) District 18: Shingo Nishimura (DP) District 19: Taro Nakayama (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 1,509,923 40.7 +14.2 9 +4 JCP 518,768 14.0 -08.2 - Kt 365,912 09.9 -00.5 4 LDP 1,112,160 30.0 +06.2 6 -2 SDP 9,705 00.3 -01.4 - -1 etc 191,626 05.2 - -1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,708,094 19 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------