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. AKITA PREFECTURE (3 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 68,586 44.1 55,969 27.5 - JCP 12,713 08.2 10,838 05.3 18,276 06.8 LDP - 109,296 53.6 117,453 43.5 SDP - 27,624 13.5 - etc 24,382 15.7 - 133,981 49.7 etc 49,777 32.0 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 155,458 203,727 269,710 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Manabu Terata (DP) District 2: Hosei Norota (LDP) District 3: Nobuhide Minorikawa -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 124,555 19.8 -02.2 1 +1 JCP 41,827 06.6 -00.5 - LDP 226,749 36.0 -18.2 1 -2 SDP 27,624 04.4 -03.0 - etc 208,140 33.1 1 +1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 628,895 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------