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. SAITAMA PREFECTURE (15 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 117,587 56.3 114,322 51.0 104,182 46.4 81,367 48.0 JCP 16,257 07.8 18,706 08.3 16,703 07.4 18,527 10.9 LDP - 91,095 40.6 103,588 46.1 69,625 41.1 SDP 8,960 04.3 - - - etc 59,910 28.7 - - - etc 6,237 02.9 - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 208,951 224,123 224,473 169,519 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Koichi Takemasa (DP) District 2: Katsuyuki Ishida (DP) District 3: Ritsuo Hosokawa (DP) District 4: Hideo Jimpu (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 95,626 56.4 112,794 48.1 97,353 45.0 69,418 38.3 JCP 13,493 07.9 18,380 07.8 15,489 07.1 18,512 10.2 LDP 60,410 35.6 103,511 44.1 88,151 40.7 70,959 39.1 SDP - - 15,489 07.1 - etc - - - 22,509 12.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 169,529 234,685 216,482 181,398 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Yukio Edano (DP) District 6: Atsushi Oshima (DP) District 7: Yasuko Komiyama (DP) District 8: Masahiko Shibayama (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9 District 10 District 11 District 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 94,569 43.9 75,083 42.7 52,729 27.4 75,439 40.7 JCP 16,514 07.7 13,051 07.4 16,873 08.7 14,106 07.6 LDP 104,167 48.4 87,489 49.8 123,057 63.9 95,889 51.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 215,250 175,623 192,659 185,434 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9: Matsushige Ono (LDP) District 10: Taimei Yamaguchi (LDP) District 11: Ryuji Koizumi (LDP) District 12: Toshio Masuda (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 13 District 14 District 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 81,371 42.9 86,826 41.9 80,745 46.9 JCP 11,942 06.3 16,194 07.8 16,394 09.3 LDP 81,935 43.2 104,066 50.2 58,522 33.5 SDP 10,555 05.6 - - etc 3,991 02.1 - 14,566 08.3 etc - - 4,179 02.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 189,794 207,086 174,406 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 13: Shinako Tsuchiya (LDP) District 14: Takashi Mitsubayashi (LDP) District 15: Satoshi Takayama (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 1,339,411 45.1 +13.3 8 +2 JCP 241,141 08.1 -07.1 - LDP 1,242,464 41.8 +08.2 7 +1 SDP 35,004 01.2 -01.3 - etc 111,392 03.7 - -2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,969,412 15 +1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------