JAPAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 25 JUNE 2000 ========================================================= Elections to the Shugi-In (House of Deputies) Source: Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Japanese Parliament website Parties --------------------------------------------------------- * JMt (Jiyu Minshu-to) Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) * Mt (Minshu-to) Democratic Party (DP) * Kt (Komei-to) Clean Government Party (Komeito) * Jt (Jiyu-to) Liberal Party (LP) * NKt (Nihon Kyosan-to) Japan Communist Party (JCP) * SMt (Shakai Minshu-to) Social-Democratic Party (SDP) * Ht (Hoshu-to) Conservative Party (CP) 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 ========================================================= Multi-member districts Block LDP DP Kto JCP SDP LP Total --------------------------------------------------------- Chugoku 4 2 2 1 1 1 11 Hokkaido 2 3 1 1 1 - 8 Hokurikushinetsu 4 3 1 1 1 1 11 Kinki 7 7 5 5 3 3 30 Kitakanto 7 5 3 2 1 2 20 Kyushu 7 4 3 2 3 2 21 Minamikanto 6 6 3 2 2 2 21 Shikoku 3 1 1 1 - - 6 Tohoku 5 3 1 1 1 3 14 Tokai 7 7 2 2 1 2 21 Tokyo 4 6 2 2 1 2 17 --------------------------------------------------------- 56 47 24 20 15 18 180 --------------------------------------------------------- VOTING BY BLOCK CONSTITUENCY ========================================================= CHUGOKU (Western Honshu: Hiroshima, Okayama, Shiname, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 585,646 15.3 2 Communist 339,503 08.9 1 Democratic 830,738 21.8 2 Liberal 338,145 08.9 1 Liberal Democratic 1,358,606 35.6 4 Social Democratic 351,229 09.2 1 Others 14,874 00.4 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,818,741 11 --------------------------------------------------------- Yoshiro Hayashi (LDP) Tetsuo Saito (Kt) Kozo Hirabayashi (LDP) Koji Sato (LP) Tetsuo Kaneko (SDP) Kazuo Tanikawa (LDP) Keigo Masuya (Kt) Toshimasa Yamada (DP) Kiichi Miyazawa (LDP) Osamu Yamauchi (DP) Yoshiko Nakabayashi (JCP) --------------------------------------------------------- HOKKAIDO (Hokkaido Island and prefecture) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 346,440 12.8 1 Communist 342,931 12.7 1 Democratic 848,005 31.4 3 Liberal 220,094 08.1 - Liberal Democratic 692,235 25.6 2 Social Democratic 237,503 08.8 1 Others 17,517 00.6 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,704,725 8 --------------------------------------------------------- Hirofumi Iwakura (LDP) Wakio Mitsui (DP) Kenji Kodama (JCP) Kenji Nakazawa (DP) Seiichi Kaneta (DP) Muneo Suzuki (LDP) Kaori Maruya (Kt) Keiko Yamauchi (SDP) --------------------------------------------------------- HOKURIKUSHINETSU (North-central Honshu: Fukui, Ishikawa, Niigata, Nagano and Toyama prefectures) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 352,122 08.8 1 Communist 369,597 09.2 1 Democratic 1,018,075 25.3 3 Liberal 445,994 11.1 1 Liberal Democratic 1,402,890 34.9 4 Social Democratic 417,371 10.4 1 Others 10,828 00.3 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,016,877 11 --------------------------------------------------------- Kyogon Hagiyama (LDP) Ken Okuda (DP) Ikuo Horigome (DP) Kotaro Tachibana (LDP) Yasuo Ichikawa (LP) Osamu Takatori (LDP) Tadao Iwasaki (LDP) Yoshio Urushibara (Kt) Hideo Kijima (JCP) Wakako Yamaguchi (SDP) Yutaka Kuwabara (DP) --------------------------------------------------------- KINKI (southern Honshu: Hyogo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Shiga and Wakayama prefectures) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 1,457,748 16.0 5 Communist 1,439,576 15.8 5 Democratic 2,132,003 23.4 7 Liberal 876,303 09.5 3 Liberal Democratic 2,164,598 23.8 7 Social Democratic 823,170 09.0 3 Others 222,482 02.5 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,115,880 30 --------------------------------------------------------- Masao Akamatsu (Kt) Shingo Nishimura (LP) Yoko Fujiki (JCP) Akira Nishino (LDP) Shonosuke Hayashi (LDP) Motoo Ohata (JCP) Miyoko Hida (DP) Toru Okutani (LDP) Satoru Ienishi (DP) Yoshihide Sakaue (LDP) Yasuko Ikenobo (Kt) Susumu Shiota (LP) Ikuko Ishii (JCP) Keisuke Sunada (LDP) Setsuya Kagita (DP) Sanae Takaichi (LDP) Renko Kitagawa (SDP) Kazuya Tamaki (DP) Keiji Kokuta (JCP) Munenori Ueda (SDP) Tetsuji Kubo (Kt) Tsutomu Yamamoto (DP) Tomoko Nakagawa (SDP) Yasuhide Yamana (Kt) Tetsuji Nakamura (DP) Kazunori Yamanoi (DP) Kazuhiro Nakatsuka (LP) Takuji Yanagimoto (LDP) Hiroyoshi Nishi (Kt) Hidekatsu Yoshii (JCP) --------------------------------------------------------- KITAKANTO (eastern Honshu: Gumma, Ibaraki, Saitama and Tochigi prefectures) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 756,517 12.6 3 Communist 637,246 10.6 2 Democratic 1,495,369 24.8 5 Liberal 749,095 12.4 2 Liberal Democratic 1,864,372 30.9 7 Social Democratic 490,360 08.1 1 Others 33,911 00.6 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,026,870 20 --------------------------------------------------------- Fumi Aoyama (Kt) Yasuhiro Nakasone (LDP) Susumu Hasumi (LDP) Toshio Nakayama (LDP) Fumihiro Himori (SDP) Koji Omi (LDP) Fumihiko Igarashi (DP) Tetsuya Shiokawa (JCP) Keiichi Ishii (Kt) Yuriko Takeyama (LP) Zenjiro Kaneko (DP) Taneaki Tanami (DP) Mamoru Kobayashi (DP) Shigeo Uetake (LDP) Toshiaki Koizumi (DP) Kaneshige Wakamatsu (Kt) Toshio Masuda (LDP) Tsuneo Yajima (JCP) Mayumi Moriyama (LDP) Kenji Yamaoka (LP) --------------------------------------------------------- KYUSHU (Kyushu Island: Fukuoka, Kagashima, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Oita, Okinawa and Saga prefectures) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 1,005,274 14.4 3 Communist 570,304 08.2 2 Democratic 1,419,052 20.3 4 Liberal 684,742 09.3 2 Liberal Democratic 2,200,139 31.5 7 Social Democratic 926,845 13.2 3 Others 225,007 03.2 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,031,363 21 --------------------------------------------------------- Seiken Akamine (JCP) Tadahiro Matsushita (LDP) Yasuyuki Eda (Kt) Sekisuke Nakanishi (SDP) Masayuki Fujishima (LP) Kinya Narazaki (DP) Kazuhiro Haraguchi (DP) Kyoko Nishikawa (LDP) Takeshi Hayashida (LDP) Ichizo Ohara (LDP) Junji Higashi (Kt) Takenori Kanzaki (Kt) Hisao Horinouchi (LDP) Kazuaki Ozawa (JCP) Masami Imagawa (SDP) Yasumasa Shigeno (SDP) Chiken Kakazu (LDP) Mikio Shimoji (LDP) Hiroshi Kawauchi (DP) Masahiko Yamada (LP) Issei Koga (DP) --------------------------------------------------------- MINAMIKANTO (eastern Honshu: Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 871,116 12.4 3 Communist 808,373 11.5 2 Democratic 1,940,776 27.7 6 Liberal 839,755 12.0 2 Liberal Democratic 1,734,184 24.7 6 Social Democratic 669,956 09.6 2 Others 145,793 02.1 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,009,953 21 --------------------------------------------------------- Tomoko Abe (SDP) Taei Nakamoto (LDP) Hitoshi Goto (DP) Akira Oide (DP) Yasukazu Hamada (LDP) Takeshi Omori (JCP) Yoko Hara (SDP) Yoshitaka Sakurada (LDP) Shun Hayama (DP) Kazuo Shii (JCP) Takeshi Hidaka (LP) Nobuhiko Suto (DP) Yuichi Ichikawa (Kt) Ryushi Tsuchida (LP) Yukio Jitsukawa (LDP) Isamu Ueda (Kt) Nobuo Kawakami (Kt) Kenzo Yoneda (LDP) Kimiaki Matsuzaki (DP) Hiromichi Watanabe (LDP) Eiji Nagai (DP) --------------------------------------------------------- SHIKOKU (Shikoku Island: Ehime, Kagawa, Kochi and Tokushima prefectures) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 266,686 13.7 1 Communist 213,614 11.0 1 Democratic 402,385 20.7 1 Liberal 162,681 08.4 - Liberal Democratic 700,579 36.0 3 Social Democratic 196,162 10.1 - Others 5,311 00.3 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,947,418 6 --------------------------------------------------------- Kazuyoshi Endo (Kt) Hajime Morita (LDP) Masanori Goto (DP) Mamoru Nishida (LDP) Naoaki Haruna (JCP) Akira Shichijo (LDP) --------------------------------------------------------- TOHOKU (northern Honshu: Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 474,238 09.8 1 Communist 391,055 08.1 1 Democratic 1,024,253 21.2 3 Liberal 786,751 16.3 3 Liberal Democratic 1,545,028 32.0 5 Social Democratic 517,267 10.7 1 Others 96,174 02.0 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,834,766 14 --------------------------------------------------------- Hiroyuki Arai (LDP) Ichio Kumagai (LDP) Koki Hagino (LDP) Zemmei Matsumoto (JCP) Ichiro Hino (DP) Hidefumi Minorikawa (LDP) Tetsuo Kanno (SDP) Goji Sakamoto (LDP) Yoshihisa Inoue (Kt) Takao Sato (DP) Yasusuke Konta (DP) Kijuro Sugawara (LP) Kentaro Kudo (LP) Yoshinobu Takahashi (LP) --------------------------------------------------------- TOKAI (central Honshu: Aichi, Gifu, Mie and Shizuoka prefectures) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 811,768 11.7 2 Communist 694,415 10.0 2 Democratic 2,131,169 30.7 7 Liberal 678,173 09.7 2 Liberal Democratic 1,982,078 28.5 7 Social Democratic 512,339 07.4 1 Others 137,726 02.0 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,947,668 21 --------------------------------------------------------- Takashi Aoyama (LDP) Kensho Sasaki (JCP) Yutaka Banno (DP) Yukiko Seko (JCP) Takao Fujii (LDP) Satoshi Shima (DP) Chuji Ito (DP) Norio Sugiyama (LDP) Masatomo Kawai (Kt) Takehiko Tanida (LDP) Takahide Kimura (LDP) Shogo Tsugawa (DP) Masatoshi Kurata (LDP) Yuzuru Tsuzuki (LP) Seishu Makino (DP) Takeshi Yamamura (DP) Hiroshi Nakai (LP) Eriko Yamatani (DP) Reiko Oshima (SDP) Yukihiro Yoshida (LDP) Chikara Sakaguchi (Kt) --------------------------------------------------------- TOKYO (City of Tokyo: Tokyo prefecture) ========================================================= Party Votes % Seats --------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government 709,901 12.9 2 Communist 794,734 14.5 2 Democratic 1,592,266 29.0 6 Liberal 744,294 13.6 2 Liberal Democratic 1,069,334 19.5 4 Social Democratic 349,496 06.6 1 Others 216,365 03.9 - --------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,476,660 17 --------------------------------------------------------- Shozo Azuma (LP) Midori Matsushima (LDP) Tetsuzo Fuwa (JCP) Hirosato Nakatsugawa (DP) Kunio Hatoyama (LDP) Akihiro Ota (Kt) Nobuto Hosaka (SDP) Muneaki Samejima (DP) Kazuo Inoue (DP) Yoshio Suzuki (LP) Eiko Ishige (DP) Yosuke Takagi (Kt) Tatsuya Ito (LDP) Ichiro Takahashi (LDP) Tetsundo Iwakuni (DP) Tomio Yamaguchi (JCP) Masamitsu Jojima (DP) ---------------------------------------------------------