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.


YAMANASHI 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         71,623  54.9          -           62,475  39.7
JCP        13,545  10.4     30,225  21.9     11,555  07.3
LDP        45,282  34.7    107,727  78.1     83,107  52.9
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Total     130,450          137,952          157,137
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District 1: Sakihito Ozawa (DP)
District 2: Mitsuo Horiuchi (LDP) 
District 3: Takeshi Hosaka (LDP)
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Prefecture
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Party                                        Votes      %     Change    Seats
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DP                                             134,098  30.8  +05.0       1
JCP                                             55,325  12.7  +01.6       -
LDP                                            236,116  54.2  -02.2       2
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Total                                          435,539                    3
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