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. SHIGA PREFECTURE (4 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 87,857 51.0 69,620 44.8 64,225 48.0 78,954 44.5 JCP 20,340 11.8 8,741 05.6 9,648 07.2 15,400 08.7 LDP 64,002 37.2 65,033 41.9 57,732 43.2 83,149 46.8 etc - 11,814 07.6 2,123 01.6 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 172,199 155,208 133,728 177,503 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Tatsuo Kawabata (DP) District 2: Issei Tajima (DP) District 3: Taizo Mikazuki (DP) District 4: Mineichi Iwanaga (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 300,656 47.1 +35.3 3 +2 JCP 54,129 08.5 -05.5 - LDP 269,916 42.3 -00.6 1 -1 etc 13,937 02.2 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 638,638 4 +1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------