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. TOTTORI PREFECTURE (2 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 31,236 19.6 50,989 32.1 JCP 14,092 08.8 9,266 05.8 LDP 114,283 71.6 45,900 28.9 etc - 52,466 33.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 159,611 158,621 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Shigeru Ishiba (LDP) District 2: Yoshihiro Kawakami -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 82,225 25.8 +06.2 - JCP 23,358 07.3 +01.1 - LDP 160,183 50.3 +00.7 1 -1 etc 52,466 16.5 1 +1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 318,232 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------