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. TOCHIGI PREFECTURE (5 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 102,127 43.9 60,010 37.1 - 104,159 43.9 JCP 6,904 03.0 5,506 03.4 9,186 06.8 7,822 03.3 LDP 123,297 53.1 96,224 59.5 100,539 74.9 125,031 52.7 SDP - - 24,513 18.3 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 232,328 161,740 134,238 237,012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Hajime Funada (LDP) District 2: Mayumi Moriyama (LDP) District 3: Yoshimi Watanabe (LDP) District 4: Tsutomu Sato (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 35,131 20.9 JCP 8,445 05.0 LDP 124,612 74.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 168,188 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Toshimitsu Motegi (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 301,427 32.3 +02.8 - -1 JCP 37,863 04.0 -03.3 - LDP 569,703 61.0 +06.5 5 +1 SDP 24,513 02.6 +01.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 933,506 5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------