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. SAGA PREFECTURE (3 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 70,271 46.8 - 36,653 24.8 JCP 4,977 03.3 22,898 17.5 8,079 05.5 LDP 66,466 44.3 107,522 82.5 102,859 69.7 SDP 8,315 05.5 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 150,029 130,420 147,591 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Kazuhiro Haraguchi (DP) District 2: Masahiro Imamura (LDP) District 3: Kosuke Hori (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 73,935 18.7 -07.1 1 +1 JCP 35,954 09.1 +04.6 - LDP 276,847 70.1 +12.3 2 -1 SDP 8,315 02.1 -07.9 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 395,051 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------