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. TOYAMA PREFECTURE (3 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 51,306 37.4 42,244 26.7 - JCP 9,764 07.1 8,015 05.1 17,756 07.8 LDP 76,154 55.5 93,849 59.4 159,316 69.6 SDP - 13,792 08.7 51,663 22.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 137,224 157,900 228,735 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Jinen Nagase (LDP) District 2: Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi (LDP) District 3: Tamisuke Watanuki (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 93,550 18.1 -02.0 - JCP 35,535 06.9 -00.9 - LDP 323,319 62.4 -01.6 3 SDP 65,455 12.6 +12.6 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 517,859 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------