JAPAN
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 9 NOVEMBER 2003
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Elections to the Shugi-In (House of Deputies)
Source: Asahi Shimbun newspaper

Parties
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* 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
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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.


YAMAGATA PREFECTURE (3 Districts)
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          District 1       District 2       District 3       
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Party     Votes    %       Votes    %       Votes    %       
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DP         81,580  40.4    106,846  44.4     84,946  36.5
JCP         7,356  03.6      9,094  03.8     10,735  04.6
LDP       100,764  49.9    124,591  51.8    137,206  58.9
SDP        12,256  06.1          -                -
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Total     201,956          240,531          232,887
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District 1: Toshiaki Endo (LDP)
District 2: Takehiko Endo (LDP)
District 3: Koichi Kato (LDP)
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Prefecture
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Party                                        Votes      %     Change    Seats
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DP                                             273,372  40.5  +21.4       -
JCP                                             27,185  04.0  -03.4       -
LDP                                            362,561  53.7  +00.5       3
SDP                                             12,126  01.8  -06.7       -
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Total                                          675,244                    3
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