JAPAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 11 SEPTEMBER 2005 ================================================================================ Elections to the Shugi-In (House of Deputies) Source: Asahi Shimbun newspaper Parties --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * JMt - Jiyu Minshu-to (Liberal Democratic Party) * Mt - Minshu-to (Democratic Party) * KMSt - Kokumin Shin-to (People's New Party) * Kt - Komei-to (Clean Government Party) * NKt - Nihon Kyosan-to (Japan Communist Party) * StN - Shin-to Nihon (New Party Japan) * SMt - Shakai Minshu-to (Social-Democratic Party) * StD - Shin-to Daichi (New party, Big Land) 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: PARTY STRENGTHS BY BLOCK ================================================================================ Seats and seats are compared with those won in the 2003 elections Block LDP DP Kto JCP SDP etc Total -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chugoku 5 4 (-1) 2 - - 1 (+1) 11 Hokkaido 3 3 (-1) 1 - - 1 (+1) 8 Hokurikushinetsu 5 4 (-1) 1 - - 1 (+1) 11 Kinki 11 (+2) 9 (-2) 4 (-1) 3 1 1 (+1) 29 Kitakanto 9 (+1) 7 (-1) 2 (-1) 1 1 (+1) - 20 Kyushu 9 (+1) 7 3 1 1 (-1) - 21 Minamikanto 10 (+2) 7 (-2) 3 1 1 - 22 Shikoku 3 2 1 - - - 6 Tohoku 6 5 1 1 1 - 14 Tokai 9 (+1) 8 (-1) 3 1 - - 21 Tokyo 7 (+1) 6 (-2) 2 1 1 (+1) - 17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 77 (+8) 61 (-11) 23 (-2) 9 6 (+1) - (+4) 180 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOTING BY BLOCK CONSTITUENCY ================================================================================ CHUGOKU (Western Honshu: Hiroshima, Okayama, Shiname, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 658,702 15.7 -02.0 2 Democratic Party 1,196,971 28.6 -05.2 3 -1 Japan Communist Party 247,073 05.9 -00.4 - Liberal Democratic Party 1,537,080 36.2 -01.2 5 People's New Party 330,546 07.9 1 +1 Social Democratic Party 215,636 05.1 +00.3 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,186,008 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toshiko Abe (LDP) Yoshitake Masuhara (LDP) Seiji Hagiwara (LDP) Keigo Masuya (CGP) Gaku Hashimoto (LDP) Daisuke Matsumoto (DP) Hideo Hiraoka (DP) Mitsuo Mitani (DP) Hisaoki Kamei (PNP) Tetsuo Saito (CGP) Katsunobu Kato (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOKKAIDO (Hokkaido Island and prefecture) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 368,552 11.4 -02.6 1 Democratic Party 1,090,727 33.8 -07.0 3 -1 Japan Communist Party 241,371 07.5 -01.5 - Liberal Democratic Party 940,705 29.1 -01.9 3 Social Democratic Party 152,646 04.7 -00.5 - New Party, Big Land 433,938 13.4 1 +1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,227,939 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Satoshi Arai (DP) Kenko Matsuki (DP) Yukari Iijima (LDP) Seiji Osaka (DP) Hiroshi Imazu (LDP) Muneo Suzuki (NPBL) Kaori Maruya (CGP) Takamori Yoshikawa (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOKURIKUSHINETSU (North-central Honshu: Fukui, Ishikawa, Niigata, Nagano and Toyama prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 403,203 09.3 -00.8 1 Democratic Party 1,414,392 32.5 -04.4 4 -1 Japan Communist Party 293,045 06.7 -00.6 - Liberal Democratic Party 1,665,553 38.3 -00.6 5 People's New Party 300,140 06.9 1 +1 Social Democratic Party 272,649 06.3 -00.6 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,348,982 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyogon Hagiyama (LDP) Takashi Shinohara (DP) Masaaki Itokawa (PNP) Shuichi Takatori (LDP) Riki Kawara (LDP) Yoshio Urushibara (CGP) Muneaki Murai (DP) Eiichiro Washio (DP) Tadayoshi Nagashima (LDP) Rokuzaemon Yoshida (LDP) Ryuzo Sasaki (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KINKI (southern Honshu: Hyogo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Shiga and Wakayama prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 1,626,678 15.0 -02.4 4 -1 Democratic Party 3,157,556 29.0 -08.1 9 -2 Japan Communist Party 1,051,949 09.7 -01.0 3 Liberal Democratic Party 4,003,209 36.8 +06.1 11 +2 New Japan Party 420,908 03.9 1 +1 Social Democratic Party 619,883 05.7 +01.6 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,880,183 29 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masao Akamatsu (CGP) Kenshiro Matsunami (LDP) Ryuichi Doi (DP) Hiroyoshi Nishi (GCP) Yuji Fujii (LDP) Shingo Nishimura (DP) Osamu Fujimura (DP) Tenzo Okumura (DP) Koichiro Ichimura (DP) Shigeki Sato (CGP) Yasuko Ikenobo (CGP) Koichiro Shimizu (LDP) Ikuko Ishii (JCP) Makoto Taki (NPJ) Nobuko Iwaki (LDP) Kiyomi Tsujimoto (SDP) Kyoko Izawa (LDP) Osamu Uno (LDP) Chube Kagida (LDP) Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (DP) Tatsuo Kawabata (DP) Tomohiro Yamamoto (LDP) Keiro Kitagami (DP) Takashi Yano (LDP) Keiji Kokuta (JCP) Takuji Yanagimoto (LDP) Mitsue Kondo (LDP) Hidekatsu Yoshii (JCP) Takeaki Matsumoto (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KITAKANTO (eastern Honshu: Gumma, Ibaraki, Saitama and Tochigi prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 937,345 13.0 -01.1 2 -1 Democratic Party 2,260,717 31.4 -06.5 7 -1 Japan Communist Party 477,958 06.6 -00.0 1 Liberal Democratic Party 2,892,780 40.5 +03.0 9 +1 New Japan Party 294,952 04.1 - Social Democratic Party 323,979 04.5 +00.7 1 +1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,187,731 20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Otohiko Endo (CGP) Keiko Nagaoka (LDP) Akio Fukuda (DP) Fukuyo Nakamori (LDP) Fumihiro Himori (SDP) Kazuyuki Nakane (LDP) Ritsuo Hosokawa(DP) Masayoshi Namiki (LDP) Keiichi Ishii (CGP) Koya Nishikawa (LDP) Takashi Ishizeki (DP) Hideaki Okabe (LDP) Hideo Jinbu (DP) Koji Omi (LDP) Zenjiro Kaneko (LDP) Tetsuya Shiokawa (JCP) Yasuko Komiyama (DP) Satoshi Takayama(DP) Hideki Makihara (LDP) Kenji Yamaoka (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KYUSHU (Kyushu Island: Fukuoka, Kagashima, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Oita, Okinawa and Saga prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 1,240,007 15.9 -01.0 3 Democratic Party 2,287,753 29.4 -02.9 7 Japan Communist Party 451,158 05.8 -00.5 1 Liberal Democratic Party 2,883,048 37.1 +00.6 9 +1 People's New Party 307,454 04.0 - Social Democratic Party 607,008 07.8 -01.0 1 -1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,776,428 21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seiken Akamine (JCP) Kenji Kitahashi (DP) Osamu Ashitomi (LDP) Issei Koga (DP) Yasuyuki Eda (CGP) Seiji Nakamura (LDP) Nobuhiko Endo (LDP) Hiroshi Ogushi (DP) Kazuhiro Haraguchi (DP) Ren Sato (LDP) Takeshi Hayashida (LDP) Yasumasa Shigeno (SDP) Junji Higashi (CGP) Tsutomu Tomioka (LDP) Motoko Hirotsu (LDP) Masahiko Yamada (DP) Takenori Kanzaki (CGP) Kozo Yamamoto (LDP) Hiroshi Kawauchi (DP) Katsuhiko Yokomitsu (DP) Minoru Kihara (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MINAMIKANTO (eastern Honshu: Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 1,007,504 12.2 -01.5 3 Democratic Party 2,439,549 29.5 -10.5 7 -2 Japan Communist Party 566,945 06.8 -00.6 1 New Japan Party 309,851 03.7 - Liberal Democratic Party 3,510,617 42.4 +07.8 10 +2 Social Democratic Party 444,753 05.4 +01.1 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8,279,219 22 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomoko Abe (SDP) Nobuhiro Omiya (LDP) Masaaki Akaike (LDP) Jiro Ono (LDP) Yoichiro Esaki (LDP) Hirofumi Ryu (DP) Mineyuki Fukuda (LDP) Kazuo Shii (JCP) Mikio Fujita (LDP) Daizo Sugimura (LDP) Noriko Furuya (CGP) Keisuke Suzuki (LDP) Hitoshi Goto (DP) Kaname Tajima (DP) Tetsundo Iwakuni (DP) Kazufumi Taniguchi (CGP) Hiroyuki Nagahama (DP) Shigeyuki Tomita (CGP) Kotaro Nagasaki (LDP) Akira Uchiyama (DP) Hisayasu Nagata (DP) Toshio Ukishima (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHIKOKU (Shikoku Island: Ehime, Kagawa, Kochi and Tokushima prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 317,575 14.8 -01.9 1 Democratic Party 711,927 33.2 +01.5 2 Japan Communist Party 175,994 08.2 +00.2 - Liberal Democratic Party 821,746 38.3 +00.1 3 Social Democratic Party 119,089 05.5 +00.2 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,146,331 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masanori Goto (DP) Junya Ogawa (DP) Noritoshi Ishida (CGP) Yoshiro Okamoto (LDP) Katsuko Nashimoto (LDP) Akira Shichijo (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOHOKU (northern Honshu: Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 620,638 11.9 00.0 1 Democratic Party 1,748,165 33.6 -02.8 5 Japan Communist Party 325,176 06.2 -00.4 1 Liberal Democratic Party 1,901,595 36.6 -01.0 6 People's New Party 244,933 04.7 - Social Democratic Party 362,523 07.0 +00.5 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,203,030 14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Koji Futada (LDP) Tatsuo Sato (LDP) Yoshihisa Inoe (CGP) Chizuko Takahashi (JCP) Tetsuo Kanno (SDP) Tokuichiro Tamazawa (LDP) Yosuke Kondo (DP) Masayo Tanabu (DP) Kazuko Kori (DP) Atsushi Watanabe (LDP) Masashi Nakano (LDP) Hokuto Yokoyama (DP) Goji Sakamoto (LDP) Izumi Yoshida (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOKAI (central Honshu: Aichi, Gifu, Mie and Shizuoka prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 987,290 12.4 -01.8 3 Democratic Party 2,766,443 34.8 -06.0 8 -1 Japan Communist Party 502,501 06.3 -00.4 1 Liberal Democratic Party 3,066,048 38.6 +04.0 9 +1 New Japan Party 327,768 04.1 - Social Democratic Party 300,574 03.8 +00.1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,950,624 21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hirotaka Akamatsu (DP) Yoshinori Oguchi (CGP) Yutaka Banno (DP) Mitsunori Okamoto (DP) Masaki Doi (LDP) Toshitsugu Saito (LDP) Makiko Fujino (LDP) Chikara Sakaguchi (CGP) Koichi Hirata (LDP) Kensho Sasaki (JCP) Wataru Ito (CGP) Yukari Sato (LDP) Masatoshi Kurata (LDP) Yosuke Shinoda (LDP) Yukichi Maeda (DP) Yasuhiro Sonoda (DP) Tatsuharu Mawatari (LDP) Motoshi Sugita (LDP) Tetsuo Morimoto (DP) Kenji Tamura (DP) Hiroshi Nakai (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOKYO (City of Tokyo: Tokyo prefecture) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 820,126 12.4 -01.6 2 Democratic Party 1,962,225 29.6 -10.3 6 -2 Japan Communist Party 586,017 08.9 -00.4 1 Liberal Democratic Party 2,665,417 40.2 +07.7 7 +1 New Japan Party 290,027 04.4 - Social Democratic Party 300,782 04.5 +00.2 1 +1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,624,594 17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazuo Aichi (LDP) Taku Otsuka (LDP) Nobuto Hosaka (SDP) Seiichiro Shimizu (LDP) Kuniko Inoguchi (LDP) Yoshinori Suematsu (DP) Akira Kasai (JCP) Michiyo Takagi (CGP) Koichi Kato (DP) Yosuke Takagi (CGP) Yoko Komiyama (DP) Masatada Tsuchiya (LDP) Jin Matsubara (DP) Kenji Wakamiya (LDP) Akihisa Nagashima (DP) Junichiro Yasui (LDP) Akira Nagatsuma (DP) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------