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. FUKUOKA PREFECTURE (11 Districts) ================================================================================ District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 92,969 54.5 104,620 48.7 101,742 48.0 79,712 42.4 JCP 15,940 09.3 15,626 07.3 14,257 06.7 12,713 06.8 LDP 53,611 31.5 94,565 44.0 95,839 45.2 95,469 50.8 etc 4,179 02.4 - - - etc 3,711 02.2 - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 170,410 214,811 211,838 187,894 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 1: Ryu Matsumoto (DP) District 2: Junichiro Koga (DP) District 3: Kazue Fujita (DP) District 4: Tomoyoshi Watanabe (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 81,166 37.3 108,678 48.9 - 75,879 33.0 JCP 12,756 05.9 9,785 04.4 19,461 10.3 21,272 09.2 LDP 105,071 48.3 103,616 46.6 119,837 63.5 132,646 57.7 SDP 18,419 08.5 - 49,262 26.1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 217,412 222,079 188,560 229,787 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 5: Yoshiaki Harada (LDP) District 6: Issei Koga (DP) District 7: Makoto Koga (LDP) District 8: Taro Aso (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9 District 10 District 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Votes % Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 102,581 45.2 79,735 39.2 - JCP 25,354 11.2 31,779 15.6 8,790 04.7 LDP 99,091 43.6 91,974 45.2 62,628 33.7 SDP - - 35,591 19.1 etc - - 78,882 42.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 227,026 203,488 185,891 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District 9: Kenji Kitahashi (DP) District 10: Shozaburo Jimi (LDP) District 11: Ryota Takeda -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prefecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DP 826,809 36.6 +03.9 5 +3 JCP 187,733 08.3 -02.8 - LDP 1,054,347 46.7 +03.0 5 -4 SDP 103,272 04.6 +00.2 - etc 86,772 03.8 1 +1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,258,933 11 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------