Results of the 2003 Japanese general election

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.

Results of the 2003 Japanese general election
Japan
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All 480 seats in the House of Representatives
241 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Seats +/–
LDP Junichiro Koizumi 237 +4
Democratic Naoto Kan 177 +28
Komeito Takenori Kanzaki 34 +3
JCP 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 1 0
Independents 11 −4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Constituency seats

All 300 seats
Turnout59.85% (Decrease 2.64pp)
Party Vote % Seats +/–
LDP

43.85 168 −9
Democratic

36.66 105 +25
JCP

8.13 0 0
Social Democratic

2.87 1 −18
Komeito

1.49 34 +3
New Conservative

1.33 4 −3
Independents

0.84 1 −4
Liberal League

0.16 1 0
Independents

11 −4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Proportional seats

All 180 seats
Turnout59.80% (Decrease 2.64pp)
Party Vote % Seats +/–
LDP

37.39 72 +25
Democratic

34.96 69 +13
Komeito

14.78 25 +1
JCP

7.76 9 −11
Social Democratic

5.12 5 −10
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by constituency and PR seats, shaded according to vote strength
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Junichiro Koizumi
LDP
Junichiro Koizumi
LDP

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

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Party Single
member
PR Total
LDP 168 69
(20,660,185 / 34.9%)
237
DPJ 105 72
(22,095,606 / 37.4%)
177
NK 9 25
(8,733,444 / 14.8%)
34
JCP 0 9
(4,586,172 / 07.7%)
9
SDP 1 5
(3,072,390 / 05.2%)
6
Others 17 17
Totals 300 180
(59,102,797)
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Party Single
member
PR Total Map
DPJ 7 4
(1,153,471 / 40.82%)
11
 
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue
LDP 5 3
(876,653 / 31.02%)
8
Komei 0 1
(394,843 /13.97%)
1
JCP 0 0
(253,442 / 8.96%)
0
SDP 0 0
(147,146 / 5.20%)
0
Totals 12 8
(2,825,555)
20
Party Single
member
PR Total Map
LDP 14 6
(1,784,768 / 37.43%)
20
 
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Independent in gray
DPJ 8 5
(784,768 / 16.46%)
13
Komei 0 1
(565,179 / 11.85%)
1
JCP 0 1
(313,290 / 6.57%)
1
SDP 0 1
(310,187 / 6.50%)
1
Independent 3 3
Totals 25 14
(4,767,708)
39
Party Single
member
PR Total Map
LDP 23 8
(2,275,223 / 37.50%)
31
 
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue
DPJ 9 8
(2,299,620 / 37.90%)
17
Komei 0 3
(857,490 / 14.13%)
3
JCP 0 1
(402,849 / 6.64%)
1
SDP 0 0
(231,140 / 3.81%)
0
Totals 32 20
(6,066,322)
52
Party Single
member
PR Total Map
DPJ 12 8
(2,291,124 / 39.88%)
20
 
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Komeito in green
LDP 12 6
(1,867,544 / 32.51%)
18
Komei 1 2
(805,640 / 14.02%)
3
JCP 0 1
(532,376 / 9.26%)
1
SDP 0 0
(247,10 / 4.30%)
0
Totals 25 17
(5,743,787)
42
Party Single
member
PR Total Map
DPJ 17 9
(2,819,165 / 39.97%)
26
 
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Komeito in green
LDP 16 8
(2,441,590 / 34.62%)
24
Komei 1 3
(969,464 / 13.74%)
4
JCP 0 1
(521,309 / 7.39%)
1
SDP 0 1
(300,599 / 4.26%)
1
Totals 34 22
(7,052,127)
56
Party Single
member
PR Total Map
LDP 13 5
(1,502,822 / 38.88%)
18
 
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Independent in gray
DPJ 6 5
(1,424,537 / 36.86%)
11
Komei 0 1
(390,921 / 10.11%)
1
JCP 0 0
(278,939 / 7.21%)
0
SDP 0 0
(267,096 / 6.91%)
0
Independent 1 1
Totals 20 11
(3,864,315)
31
Party Single
member
PR Total Map
DPJ 15 9
(2,872,501 / 40.76%)
24
 
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, New Conservative in dark blue, Independent in gray
LDP 15 8
(2,436,791 / 34.58%)
23
Komei 0 3
(1,002,576 / 14.22%)
3
JCP 0 1
(474,414 / 6.73%)
1
SDP 0 0
(259,831 / 3.68%)
0
Conservative 2 2
Independent 1 1
Totals 33 21
(7,046,113)
54
Party Single
member
PR Total Map
DPJ 20 11
(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
LDP 19 9
(2,833,181 / 30.69%)
28
Komei 6 5
(1,604,469 / 17.38%)
11
JCP 0 3
(992,142 / 10.74%)
3
SDP 0 1
(75,228 / 4.06%)
1
Conservative 2 2
Independent 1 1
Totals 48 29
(9,230,362)
77
Party Single
member
PR Total Map
LDP 17 5
(1,388,768 / 37.41%)
22
 
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue, Independent in gray
DPJ 2 4
(1,254,880 / 33.80%)
6
Komei 0 2
(657,311 / 17.70%)
2
JCP 0 0
(234,359 / 6.31%)
0
SDP 0 0
(176,942 / 4.76%)
0
Independent 1 1
Totals 20 11
(3,712,260)
31
Party Single
member
PR Total Map
LDP 12 3
(708,051 / 38.22%)
15
 
Single member results -- LDP in red, DPJ in light blue
DPJ 1 2
(587,828 / 31.73%)
3
Komei 0 1
(309,160 / 16.69%)
1
JCP 0 0
(148,953 / 8.04%)
0
SDP 0 0
(98,243 / 5.30%)
0
Totals 13 6
(1,852,235)
19
Party Single
member
PR Total Map
LDP 22 8
(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
DPJ 8 7
(2,182,400 / 31.43%)
15
Komei 1 3
(1,176,391 / 16.94%)
4
SDP 1 2
(613,875 / 8.84%)
3
JCP 0 1
(434,099 / 6.25%)
1
Independent 6 6
Totals 38 21
(6,942,043)
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