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.


AOMORI 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         15,736  07.7          -           70,275  43.2     40,864  23.5  
JCP         7,010  03.4     10,605  08.2      5,284  03.2     13,524  07.8
LDP        81,511  39.7     96,784  75.1     86,909  53.5    110,675  63.6
SDP        14,123  06.9     21,537  16.7          -            8,864  05.1
etc        74,799  36.4          -                -                -
etc        12,119  05.9          -                -                -
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Total     205,298          128,926          162,468          173,927
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District 1: Yuji Tsushima (LDP)
District 2: Akinori Eto (LDP)  
District 3: Tadamori Oshima (LDP) 
District 4: Taro Kimura (LDP)
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Prefecture
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Party                                        Votes      %     Change    Seats
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DP                                             126,875  18.9  -06.4       -  -1
JCP                                             36,423  05.4  -01.3       -
LDP                                            375,879  56.0  +00.8       4  +1
SDP                                             44,524  06.6  -06.2       -
etc                                             86,918  13.0              -
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Total                                          670,619                    4
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