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. EHIME PREFECTURE (4 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 43,903 23.4 43,553 25.6 41,030 28.1 37,564 22.8 JCP 14,222 07.6 12,206 07.2 10,931 07.5 9,818 06.0 LDP 113,516 60.6 99,208 58.3 74,160 50.7 117,252 71.2 SDP 11,653 06.2 15,150 08.9 11,757 08.0 - etc 4,007 02.1 - 8,238 05.6 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 187,301 170,117 146,116 164,634 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Yasuhisa Shiozaki (LDP) District 2: Seiichiro Murakami (LDP) District 3: Shinya Ono (LDP) District 4: Koichi Yamamoto (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 166,050 24.8 +12.4 - JCP 47,177 07.1 -04.1 - LDP 404,136 60.5 -03.2 4 SDP 38,560 05.8 -05.8 - etc 12,245 01.8 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 668,168 4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------