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. CHIBA PREFECTURE (13 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 100,838 49.2 111,539 48.4 85,610 47.8 135,522 55.8 JCP 14,183 06.9 18,703 08.1 8,768 05.0 27,441 11.3 LDP 89,873 43.9 93,617 40.6 84,693 47.3 80,051 32.9 SDP - 6,724 02.9 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 204,894 230,583 179,071 243,014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Kaname Tajima (DP) District 2: Hisayasu Nagata (DP) District 3: Kazumasa Okajima (DP) District 4: Yoshihiko Noda (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 76,671 38.9 83,895 46.7 96,915 48.0 100,794 46.8 JCP 13,919 07.1 16,485 09.2 16,481 08.2 19,117 08.9 LDP 64,393 32.7 79,161 44.1 83,899 41.6 95,627 44.4 etc 41,883 21.3 - 4,485 02.2 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 196,866 179,541 201,780 215,538 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Hirotami Murakoshi (DP) District 6: Yukio Ubukata (DP) District 7: Akira Uchiyama (DP) District 8: Kimiaki Matsuzaki (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9 District 10 District 11 District 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 89,057 42.6 31,864 14.6 60,296 29.0 87,522 40.8 JCP 16,892 08.1 7,595 03.5 16,358 07.9 11,303 05.3 LDP 103,199 49.3 94,946 43.6 130,863 63.1 115,718 53.9 etc - 81,950 37.6 - - etc - 1,539 00.7 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 209,148 217,894 207,517 214,543 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9: Kenichi Mizuno (LDP) District 10: Motoo Hayashi (LDP) District 11: Eisuke Mori (LDP) District 12: Yasukazu Hamada (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 13 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 75,927 44.9 JCP 11,435 06.8 LDP 81,625 48.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 168,987 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 13: Yukio Jitsukawa (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 1,136,450 42.6 +10.1 8 +3 JCP 198,680 07.4 -05.4 - LDP 1,197,665 44.9 +01.6 5 -2 SDP 6,724 00.2 -02.2 - etc 129,857 04.9 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,669,376 13 +1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------