JAPAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 30 AUGUST 2009 ================================================================================ Elections to the Shugi-In (House of Deputies) Source: Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Our Campaigns website 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 CONSTITUENCY ================================================================================ Seats and seats are compared with those won in the 2005 elections Block LDP DP CGP JCP SDP etc Total -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chugoku 4 (-1) 6 (+2) 1 (-1) - - - (-1) 11 Hokkaido 2 (-1) 4 (+1) 1 - - 1 8 Hokurikushinetsu 4 (-1) 6 (+2) 1 - - - (-1) 11 Kinki 9 (-2) 11 (+2) 5 (+1) 3 1 - (-1) 29 Kitakanto 6 (-3) 10 (+3) 2 1 - (-1) 1 (+1) 20 Kyushu 7 (-2) 9 (+2) 3 1 1 - 21 Minamikanto 6 (-4) 11 (+3) 2 (-1) 1 1 1 (+1) 22 Shikoku 2 (-1) 3 (+1) 1 - - - 6 Tohoku 4 (-2) 7 (+2) 1 1 1 - 14 Tokai 6 (-3) 12 (+4) 2 (-1) 1 - - 21 Tokyo 5 (-2) 8 (+2) 2 1 - (-1) 1 (+1) 17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55 (-22) 87 (+26) 21 (-2) 9 4 (-2) 4 180 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGGREGATE NATIONAL BLOCK CONSTITUENCY VOTE ================================================================================ Party Votes % Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 8,054,007 11.4 -01.9 21 -02 Democratic Party 29,844,799 42.4 +11.4 87 +26 Japan Communist Party 4,943,886 07.0 -00.3 9 Liberal Democratic Party 18,810,217 26.7 -11.5 55 -22 New Party, Big Land 433,122 00.6 00.0 1 People's New Party 1,050,387 01.5 -00.2 - -02 Social Democratic Party 3,006,160 04.3 -01.2 4 -02 Your Party 3,005,199 04.3 3 +03 Others 1,315,722 01.9 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 70,463,499 180 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOTING BY BLOCK CONSTITUENCY ================================================================================ CHUGOKU (Western Honshu: Hiroshima, Okayama, Shiname, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 555,552 13.0 -02.7 1 -1 Democratic Party 1,704,242 39.7 +11.1 6 +3 Japan Communist Party 244,761 05.7 -00.2 - Liberal Democratic Party 1,388,451 32.4 -03.8 4 -1 People's New Party 208,208 04.8 -03.1 - -1 Social Democratic Party 156,291 03.6 -01.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,257,505 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toshiko Abe (LDP) * Tetsuo Saito (CGP) * Hiroki Hanasaki (DP) Hiroshi Sugekawa (DP) Katsuyuki Kawai (LDP) Takashi Takai (DP) Hisaaki Komuro (DP) Tsutomu Takamura (DP) Yoshitaka Murata (LDP) Shunji Yuhara (DP) Hidenao Nakagawa (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOKKAIDO (Hokkaido Island and prefecture) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 354,886 10.7 -00.7 1 Democratic Party 1,348,318 40.6 +06.8 4 +1 Japan Communist Party 241,345 07.3 -00.2 - Liberal Democratic Party 805,895 24.2 -04.9 2 -1 Social Democratic Party 113,562 03.4 -01.3 - New Party, Big Land 433,122 13.0 -00.4 1 Others 27,675 00.8 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,324,803 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hisashi Inatsu (CGP) Muneo Suzuki (NPBL) * Hitomi Kudo (DP) Tsutomu Takebe (LDP) Nobutaka Machimura (LDP) Tatsumaru Yamaoka (DP) Hiroko Nakano (DP) Maya Yamazaki (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOKURIKUSHINETSU (North-central Honshu: Fukui, Ishikawa, Niigata, Nagano and Toyama prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 333,084 07.4 -01.9 1 Democratic Party 2,007,770 44.4 +11.9 6 +2 Japan Communist Party 274,816 06.1 -00.6 - Liberal Democratic Party 1,333,082 29.5 -08.8 4 -1 People's New Party 240,333 05.3 -01.6 - -1 Social Democratic Party 225,992 05.0 -01.3 - Others 105,926 02.3 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,521,003 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiroshi Hase (LDP) Tadayoshi Nagashima (LDP) * Masaaki Itokawa (DP) * Ryuzo Sasaki (DP) Shigeo Kitamura (LDP) Mieko Tanaka (DP) Tetsuo Kutsukake (DP) Yoshio Urushibara (CGP) * Isao Matsumiya (DP) Seizo Wakaizumi (DP) Jinen Nagase (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KINKI (southern Honshu: Hyogo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Shiga and Wakayama prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 1,449,170 13.0 -02.0 5 +1 Democratic Party 4,733,415 42.4 +13.4 11 +2 Japan Communist Party 1,067,443 09.6 -00.1 3 Liberal Democratic Party 2,592,451 23.2 -13.6 9 -2 New Japan Party 133,708 01.2 -02.7 - -1 Social Democratic Party 411,092 03.7 -02.0 1 Your Party 465,591 04.2 - Others 138,670 01.3 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,991,540 29 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masao Akamatsu (CGP) * Hiroyoshi Nishi (CGP) * Hiroshi Hamamoto (DP) Mai Ohara (DP) Ryoichi Hattori (SDP) Takanori Onishi (DP) Toshikazu Higuchi (DP) Shigeki Sato (CGP) * Bunmei Ibuki (LDP) Sanae Takaichi (LDP) Yasuko Ikenobo (CGP) * Naokazu Takemoto (LDP) Masatoshi Ishida (LDP) Yuzuru Takeuchi (CGP) Mitsue Kawakami (DP) Kimiyoshi Tamaki (DP) Mitsue Kondo (LDP) Koichi Tani (LDP) Keiji Kokuta (JCP) * Takashi Tanihata (LDP) Sadatoshi Kumagai (DP) Juntaro Toyoda (DP) Kenta Matsunami (LDP) Yoshihiko Watanabe (DP) Hirotaka Matsuoka (DP) Takuji Yanagimoto (LDP) * Takeshi Miyamoto (JCP) Hidekatsu Yoshii (JCP) * Hideko Muroi (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KITAKANTO (eastern Honshu: Gumma, Ibaraki, Saitama and Tochigi prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 855,134 11.4 -01.6 2 Democratic Party 3,172,577 42.1 +10.7 10 +3 Japan Communist Party 471,138 06.3 -00.3 1 Liberal Democratic Party 1,945,933 25.8 -14.7 6 -3 New Japan Party 294,952 04.1 - People's New Party 99,354 01.3 - Social Democratic Party 274,030 03.6 -00.9 - -1 Your Party 597,025 07.9 1 +1 Others 115,058 01.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,825,201 20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Otohiko Endo (CGP) * Genichiro Sata (LDP) Akira Ishii (DP) Tsutomu Sato (LDP) Keiichi Ishii (CGP) * Masahiko Shibayama (LDP) Hiroshi Kawaguchi (DP) Yoshitaka Shindo (LDP) Isao Kuwabara (DP) Tetsuya Shiokawa (JCP) * Yukiko Miyake (DP) Mamoru Takano (DP) Keiko Nagaoka (LDP) * Tomoko Tamaki (DP) Masaki Nakajima (DP) Yoshitada Tomioka (DP) Minoru Nogi (DP) Koichi Yamauchi (YP) Fukushiro Nukaga (LDP) Kazumi Yanagida (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KYUSHU (Kyushu Island: Fukuoka, Kagashima, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Oita, Okinawa and Saga prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 1,225,505 15.2 -00.7 3 Democratic Party 3,073,035 38.1 +08.7 9 +2 Japan Communist Party 425,276 05.3 -00.5 1 Liberal Democratic Party 2,352,372 29.2 -07.9 7 -2 People's New Party 183,242 02.3 -01.7 - Social Democratic Party 480,257 06.0 -01.8 1 Your Party 271,466 03.4 - Others 54,231 00.7 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8,065,384 21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seiken Akamine (JCP) * Seigo Kitamura (LDP) Shinsuke Amiya (DP) Issei Koga (DP) * Seiichiro Dokyu (DP) Inao Minayoshi (DP) Yasuyuki Eda (CGP) * Takatoshi Nakashima (SDP) Seishiro Eto (LDP) Kuniyoshi Noda (DP) Hidetomo Goto (DP) Takeshi Noda (LDP) Junji Higashi (CGP) * Yaichi Tanigawa (LDP) Masahiro Imamura (LDP) Akashi Uchikoshi (DP) Takeshi Iwaya (LDP) Gosei Yamamoto (DP) Takenori Kanzaki (CGP) * Kozo Yamamoto (LDP) * Takahiro Kawagoe (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MINAMIKANTO (eastern Honshu: Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 862,427 10.0 -02.2 2 -1 Democratic Party 3,695,159 43.0 +13.5 11 +4 Japan Communist Party 601,299 07.0 +00.2 1 Liberal Democratic Party 2,233,560 26.0 -16.4 6 -4 People's New Party 102,992 01.2 - Social Democratic Party 369,754 04.3 -01.4 1 Your Party 605,358 07.0 1 +1 Others 123,945 01.4 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8,594,494 22 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomoko Abe (SDP) * Jun Matsumoto (LDP) Shino Aihara (DP) Hirokazu Matsuno (LDP) Akira Amari (LDP) Kazuya Mimura (DP) Keiichiro Asao (YP) Tomohiko Mizuno (DP) Atsushi Chugo (DP) Ken Saito (LDP) Hirohisa Fujii (DP) Tsuyoshi Saito (DP) Noriko Furuya (CGP) * Kazuo Shii (JCP) * Motoo Hayashi (LDP) Kazunori Tanaka (LDP) Mitsuji Ishida (DP) Shigeyuki Tomita (CGP) * Kenichi Kaneko (DP) Makoto Yamazaki (DP) Koichiro Katsumata (DP) Katsuhito Yokokume (DP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHIKOKU (Shikoku Island: Ehime, Kagawa, Kochi and Tokushima prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 293,204 13.0 -01.8 1 Democratic Party 973,038 43.3 +10.1 3 +1 Japan Communist Party 150,171 06.7 -01.5 - Liberal Democratic Party 719,594 32.0 -06.3 2 -1 Social Democratic Party 94,558 04.2 -01.3 - Others 19,507 00.9 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,250,072 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takuya Hirai (LDP) Hirobumi Niki (DP) Noritoshi Ishida (CGP) * Hideyuki Takahashi (DP) Takako Nagae (DP) Shunichi Yamaguchi (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOHOKU (northern Honshu: Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 516,688 09.7 -02.2 1 Democratic Party 2,433,836 45.5 +11.9 7 +2 Japan Communist Party 315,201 05.9 -00.3 1 Liberal Democratic Party 1,491,761 27.9 -08.7 4 -2 Social Democratic Party 316,635 05.9 -01.1 1 Your Party 241,445 04.5 - Others 36,295 00.7 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,351,861 14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenya Akiba (LDP) Kazuo Takamatsu (DP) Kikuchi Chouemon (DP) Masayo Tanabu (DP) * Toshiaki Endo (LDP) Kyoichi Tsushima (DP) Yoshihisa Inoue (CGP) * Miki Wajima (DP) Katsutoshi Kaneda (LDP) Kazuyuki Yamaguchi (DP) Watari Nakano (DP) Hideo Yoshiizumi (SDP) Chizuko Takahashi (JCP) * Masayoshi Yoshino (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOKAI (central Honshu: Aichi, Gifu, Mie and Shizuoka prefectures) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 891,158 10.7 -01.7 2 -1 Democratic Party 3,864,328 46.3 +09.0 12 +4 Japan Communist Party 486,974 05.8 -00.5 1 Liberal Democratic Party 2,182,422 26.1 -12.5 6 -3 New Japan Party 72,485 00.9 -03.2 - People's New Party 130,212 01.6 - Social Democratic Party 264,957 03.2 -00.6 - Your Party 404,411 04.8 - Others 57,222 00.7 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8,357,469 21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daisuke Fujita (DP) Yoshinori Oguchi (CGP) Keiji Furuya (LDP) Hideaki Omura (LDP) Ben Hashimoto (DP) Masahiro Oyama (DP) Masato Imai (DP) Takeshi Saiki (DP) Kayoko Isogai (DP) Chikara Sakaguchi (CGP) Tadashi Kanamori (DP) Kensho Sasaki (JCP) Tamiko Kasahara (DP) Ryu Shionoya (LDP) Jiro Kawasaki (LDP) Norihisa Tamura (LDP) Masae Kobayashi (DP) Ryoji Yamada (DP) Nobuaki Miwa (DP) Tsunehiko Yoshida (DP) Seiko Noda (LDP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOKYO (City of Tokyo: Tokyo prefecture) ================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 717,199 10.4 -02.0 2 Democratic Party 2,839,081 41.0 +11.4 8 +2 Japan Communist Party 665,462 09.6 +00.7 1 Liberal Democratic Party 1,764,696 25.5 -14.7 5 -2 New Japan Party 100,381 01.5 -02.9 - People's New Party 86,046 01.2 - Social Democratic Party 299,032 04.3 -00.2 - -1 Your Party 419,903 06.1 1 +1 Others 35,667 00.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,927,740 17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members elected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kumiko Hayakawa (DP) Isshu Sugawara (LDP) Eiko Ishige (DP) Masaaki Taira (LDP) Mito Kakizawa (YP) Michiyo Takagi (CGP) * Ichiro Kamoshita (LDP) Yosuke Takagi (CGP) * Akira Kasai (JCP) * Mitsuaki Takeda (DP) Tomotaro Kawashima (DP) Koichiro Watanabe (DP) Koki Kobayashi (DP) Kaoru Yosano (LDP) Yuriko Koike (LDP) Koichi Yoshida (DP) Hirosato Nakatsugawa (DP) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------