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. SHIMANE PREFECTURE (2 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 61,071 31.6 50,951 22.3 JCP 14,237 07.4 10,774 04.7 LDP 117,897 61.0 145,555 63.8 SDP - 20,965 09.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 193,205 228,245 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Hiroyuki Hosoda (LDP) District 2: Wataru Takeshita (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 112,022 26.6 +07.5 - JCP 25,011 05.9 +00.3 - LDP 263,452 62.5 +00.8 2 -1 SDP 20,965 05.0 -03.0 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 421,450 2 -1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------