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.


YAMAGUCHI PREFECTURE (4 Districts)
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          District 1       District 2       District 3       District 4       
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Party     Votes    %       Votes    %       Votes    %       Votes    %       
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DP         66,672  30.8    109,647  51.6     50,975  28.9          -
JCP        12,071  05.6     11,721  05.5     13,909  07.9     14,438  08.2
LDP       137,830  63.6     91,087  42.9    111,658  63.2    140,347  79.7
SDP             -                -                -           21,202  12.0
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Total     216,573          212,455          176,542          175,987
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District 1: Masahiko Komura (LDP)
District 2: Hideo Hiraoka (DP)
District 3: Takeo Kawamura (LDP)
District 4: Shinzo Abe (LDP)
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Prefecture
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Party                                        Votes      %     Change    Seats
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DP                                             227,294  29.1  +09.3       1
JCP                                             52,139  06.7  -09.7       -
LDP                                            480,922  61.5   00.0       3
SDP                                             21,202  02.7  +00.4       -
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Total                                          781,557                    4
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