Results of the 2003 Japanese general election

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Results of the 2003 Japanese general election
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  2000 9 November 2003 2005  

All 480 seats in the House of Representatives
241 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeaderSeats+/–
Liberal Democratic Junichiro Koizumi 237+4
Democratic Naoto Kan 177+28
Komeito Takenori Kanzaki 34+3
Communist Kazuo Shii 9−11
Social Democratic Takako Doi 6−13
New Conservative Hiroshi Kumagai 4−3
Independents Masami Tanabu 1−4
Liberal League Torao Tokuda 10
Independents 11−4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Constituency seats

All 300 seats
Turnout59.85% (Decrease2.svg 2.64pp)
Party%Seats+/–
Liberal Democratic 43.85168−9
Democratic 36.66105+25
Communist 8.1300
Social Democratic 2.871−18
Komeito 1.4934+3
New Conservative 1.334−3
Independents 0.841−4
Liberal League 0.1610
Independents 11−4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Proportional seats

All 180 seats
Turnout59.80% (Decrease2.svg 2.64pp)
Party%Seats+/–
Liberal Democratic 37.3972+25
Democratic 34.9669+13
Komeito 14.7825+1
Communist 7.769−11
Social Democratic 5.125−10
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
2003 JAPAN GENERAL ELECTION, winner vote share.svg
Results by constituency and PR seats, shaded according to vote strength
Prime Minister beforePrime Minister after
Junichiro Koizumi
Liberal Democratic
Junichiro Koizumi
Liberal Democratic

This article presents detail of the results in the 2003 Japan general election, breaking down results by block district. The 11 block districts elected 180 members by proportional representation (allocated to party lists in each block by the D'Hondt method), and 300 members were elected from single-member districts distributed among the 47 prefectures.

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Five parties qualified to submit lists in each of the block districts. These were New Kōmeitō, the Democratic Party of Japan, the Japan Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Social Democratic Party. In addition, a number of candidates were elected in single-member districts who were independent or belonged to smaller parties. Some of these joined the major parties after the election—notably, the New Conservative Party was subsumed into the LDP.

In each table, the second column shows the number of the seats the party won in a single-member district, the third does that in proportional representation along with the number of votes and the percentage, and the fourth does the total numbers of the seats for the party.

Party names are abbreviated as follows:

National summary

PartySingle
member
PRTotal
LDP 16869
(20,660,185 / 34.9%)
237
DPJ 10572
(22,095,606 / 37.4%)
177
NK 925
(8,733,444 / 14.8%)
34
JCP 09
(4,586,172 / 07.7%)
9
SDP 15
(3,072,390 / 05.2%)
6
Others1717
Totals300180
(59,102,797)
480

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Hokkaidō Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
DPJ 74
(1,153,471 / 40.82%)
11
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue Hokkaido hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue
LDP 53
(876,653 / 31.02%)
8
Komei 01
(394,843 /13.97%)
1
JCP 00
(253,442 / 8.96%)
0
SDP 00
(147,146 / 5.20%)
0
Totals128
(2,825,555)
20

Tohoku Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
LDP 146
(1,784,768 / 37.43%)
20
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Independent in gray Tohoku hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Independent in gray
DPJ 85
(784,768 / 16.46%)
13
Komei 01
(565,179 / 11.85%)
1
JCP 01
(313,290 / 6.57%)
1
SDP 01
(310,187 / 6.50%)
1
Independent 33
Totals2514
(4,767,708)
39

Kitakantō Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
LDP 238
(2,275,223 / 37.50%)
31
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue Kitakanto hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue
DPJ 98
(2,299,620 / 37.90%)
17
Komei 03
(857,490 / 14.13%)
3
JCP 01
(402,849 / 6.64%)
1
SDP 00
(231,140 / 3.81%)
0
Totals3220
(6,066,322)
52

Tokyo Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
DPJ 128
(2,291,124 / 39.88%)
20
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Komeito in green Tokyo hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Komeito in green
LDP 126
(1,867,544 / 32.51%)
18
Komei 12
(805,640 / 14.02%)
3
JCP 01
(532,376 / 9.26%)
1
SDP 00
(247,10 / 4.30%)
0
Totals2517
(5,743,787)
42

Minamikantō Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
DPJ 179
(2,819,165 / 39.97%)
26
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Komeito in green Minamikanto hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Komeito in green
LDP 168
(2,441,590 / 34.62%)
24
Komei 13
(969,464 / 13.74%)
4
JCP 01
(521,309 / 7.39%)
1
SDP 01
(300,599 / 4.26%)
1
Totals3422
(7,052,127)
56

Hokurikushinetsu Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
LDP 135
(1,502,822 / 38.88%)
18
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Independent in gray Hokuriku-shinetsu hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Independent in gray
DPJ 65
(1,424,537 / 36.86%)
11
Komei 01
(390,921 / 10.11%)
1
JCP 00
(278,939 / 7.21%)
0
SDP 00
(267,096 / 6.91%)
0
Independent 11
Totals2011
(3,864,315)
31

Tōkai Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
DPJ 159
(2,872,501 / 40.76%)
24
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, New Conservative in dark blue, Independent in gray Tokai hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, New Conservative in dark blue, Independent in gray
LDP 158
(2,436,791 / 34.58%)
23
Komei 03
(1,002,576 / 14.22%)
3
JCP 01
(474,414 / 6.73%)
1
SDP 00
(259,831 / 3.68%)
0
Conservative 22
Independent 11
Totals3321
(7,046,113)
54

Kinki Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
DPJ 2011
(3,425,342 / 37.10%)
31
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Komeito in green, New Conservative in dark blue, Independent in gray Kinki hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Komeito in green, New Conservative in dark blue, Independent in gray
LDP 199
(2,833,181 / 30.69%)
28
Komei 65
(1,604,469 / 17.38%)
11
JCP 03
(992,142 / 10.74%)
3
SDP 01
(75,228 / 4.06%)
1
Conservative 22
Independent 11
Totals4829
(9,230,362)
77

Chūgoku Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
LDP 175
(1,388,768 / 37.41%)
22
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Independent in gray Chuugoku hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Independent in gray
DPJ 24
(1,254,880 / 33.80%)
6
Komei 02
(657,311 / 17.70%)
2
JCP 00
(234,359 / 6.31%)
0
SDP 00
(176,942 / 4.76%)
0
Independent 11
Totals2011
(3,712,260)
31

Shikoku Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
LDP 123
(708,051 / 38.22%)
15
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue Shikoku hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue
DPJ 12
(587,828 / 31.73%)
3
Komei 01
(309,160 / 16.69%)
1
JCP 00
(148,953 / 8.04%)
0
SDP 00
(98,243 / 5.30%)
0
Totals136
(1,852,235)
19

Kyūshū Block

PartySingle
member
PRTotalMap
LDP 228
(2,535,278 / 36.52%)
30
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Komeito in green, SPD in purple, Independent in gray Kyushu hrdist map 2003.PNG
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Komeito in green, SPD in purple, Independent in gray
DPJ 87
(2,182,400 / 31.43%)
15
Komei 13
(1,176,391 / 16.94%)
4
SDP 12
(613,875 / 8.84%)
3
JCP 01
(434,099 / 6.25%)
1
Independent 66
Totals3821
(6,942,043)
59

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