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.


TOKUSHIMA PREFECTURE (3 Districts)
================================================================================

          District 1       District 2       District 3        
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Party     Votes    %       Votes    %       Votes    %       
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP         60,917  53.0     62,494  44.5     49,411  34.6
JCP         9,164  08.0      5,689  04.0      7,687  05.4
LDP        44,892  39.0     72,116  51.4     85,671  60.0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total     114,973          140,299          142,769
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
District 1: Yoshito Sengoku (DP)
District 2: Shunichi Yamaguchi (LDP) 
District 3: Masazumi Gotoda (LDP)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Prefecture
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Party                                        Votes      %     Change    Seats
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP                                             172,822  43.4  +14.6       1
JCP                                             22,540  05.7  -02.6       -
LDP                                            202,679  50.9  +04.2       2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                          398,041                    3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------