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. SHIZUOKA PREFECTURE (8 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 74,745 33.5 107,687 42.9 81,364 35.1 76,865 39.7 JCP 15,032 06.7 14,096 05.6 12,154 05.2 13,795 07.1 LDP 67,437 30.2 129,162 51.5 138,508 59.7 102,761 53.1 SDP 6,093 02.7 - - - etc 59,937 26.8 - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 223,244 250,945 232,026 193,421 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Seishu Makino (DP) District 2: Yoshitsugu Harada (LDP) District 3: Hakuo Yanagisawa (LDP) District 4: Yoshio Mochizuki (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 137,201 49.4 133,066 49.4 43,779 20.7 101,484 46.2 JCP 10,610 03.8 14,867 05.5 9,791 04.6 14,057 06.4 LDP 129,988 46.8 100,955 37.4 - 104,046 47.4 etc - 20,675 07.7 98,877 46.8 - etc - - 58,932 27.9 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 277,799 269,563 211,379 219,587 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Goshi Hosono (DP) District 6: Shu Watanabe (DP) District 7: Minoru Kiuchi District 8: Ryu Shionoya (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiuchi joined the LDP after the election. Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 756,191 40.3 +03.7 3 -1 JCP 104,402 05.5 -03.7 - LDP 772,857 41.1 -00.1 4 SDP 6,093 00.3 -00.7 - etc 238,421 12.7 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,877,964 8 -1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------