2004 Japanese House of Councillors election

2004 Japanese House of Councillors election

11 July 2004
121 of the 242 seats in the House of Councillors 122 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Junichiro Koizumi Katsuya Okada Takenori Kanzaki Party LDP Democratic Komeito Last election 110 seats 67 seats 23 seats Seats won 49 50 11 Seats after 115 82 24 Seat change 5 15 1 Constituency vote 19,687,954 21,931,985 2,161,764 % and swing 35.09% (5.95pp) 39.09% (15.02pp) 3.85% (2.53pp) National vote 16,797,686 21,137,457 8,621,265 % and swing 30.03% (8.54pp) 37.79% (13.65pp) 15.41% (0.45pp)   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Tetsuzo Fuwa Mizuho Fukushima Party JCP Social Democratic Last election 20 seats 8 seats Seats won 4 2 Seats after 9 5 Seat change 11 3 Constituency vote 5,520,141 984,340 % and swing 9.84% (0.03pp) 1.75% (1.70pp) National vote 4,362,574 2,990,666 % and swing 7.80% (0.11pp) 5.35% (1.28pp)
Constituency and proportional representation (bottom right) election result
President of the House of Councillors before election Hiroyuki Kurata LDP Elected President of the House of Councillors Chikage Oogi LDP

House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 11 July 2004. The House of Councillors consisted of 242 members who served six-year terms. Approximately half the members are elected every three years. At these elections 121 members were elected. Of these 73 were elected from the 47 prefectural districts and 48 were elected from a nationwide list by proportional representation.

Contesting parties

Government

• Liberal Democratic Party (conservative)
• New Komeito (theocratic Buddhist, conservative)

Opposition

• Democratic Party (social-democratic/liberal)
• Japanese Communist Party (communist)
• Social Democratic Party (social-democratic)

Results

The opposition Democratic Party won a plurality of the popular vote and seats contested in the election, sweeping the liberal urban areas. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party failed to win in its strongholds but once more received most of its support from the agrarian areas. New Komeito did well, reaching its goals, as did the Social Democratic Party. The Japanese Communist Party did not reach its goals, while independents won the rest of the seats. The Liberal League and Green Political Assembly failed to win any seats.

Party		National			Constituency			Seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Not up	Won	Total after	+/–
	Democratic Party of Japan	21,137,457	37.79	19	21,931,985	39.09	31	32	50	82	+23
	Liberal Democratic Party	16,797,686	30.03	15	19,687,954	35.09	34	66	49	115	+5
	New Komeito Party	8,621,265	15.41	8	2,161,764	3.85	3	13	11	24	+1
	Japanese Communist Party	4,362,574	7.80	4	5,520,141	9.84	0	5	4	9	–11
	Social Democratic Party	2,990,666	5.35	2	984,340	1.75	0	3	2	5	–3
	Women's Party	989,882	1.77	0				0	0	0	0
	Green Political Assembly	903,776	1.62	0				0	0	0	New
	Ishin Seito Shimpu	128,478	0.23	0	117,780	0.21	0	0	0	0	0
	Other parties				8,382	0.01	0	0	0	0	–
	Independents				5,696,505	10.15	5	2	5	7	–1
Total		55,931,784	100.00	48	56,108,851	100.00	73	121	121	242	–5
Valid votes		55,931,785	96.42		56,108,852	96.75
Invalid/blank votes		2,074,327	3.58		1,881,905	3.25
Total votes		58,006,112	100.00		57,990,757	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		102,588,411	56.54		102,507,526	56.57
Source: MIC, National Diet

Detailed results

Elected

Prefectural districts

Constituency	Previous members			Elected members			Votes	%	Status
Hokkaido & Tohoku
Hokkaido		Yoshio Nakagawa	LDP		Yoshio Nakagawa	LDP	741,831	26.7	LDP hold
		Naoki Minezaki	DPJ		Naoki Minezaki	DPJ	618,277	22.3	DPJ hold
Aomori		Masami Tanabu	DPJ		Masami Tanabu	DPJ	297,116	47.5	DPJ hold
Iwate		Motoo Shiina	Ind.		Ryo Shuhama	DPJ	339,796	48.5	DPJ gain from Ind.
Miyagi		Ichiro Ichikawa	LDP		Ichiro Ichikawa	LDP	379,342	38.4	LDP hold
		Mitsuru Sakurai	DPJ		Mitsuru Sakurai	DPJ	372,817	37.8	DPJ hold
Akita		Shigenobu Saito	LDP		Yoetsu Suzuki	Ind.	310,657	50.2	Ind. gain from LDP
Yamagata		Koichi Kishi	LDP		Koichi Kishi	LDP	279,349	46.8	LDP hold
Fukushima		Yūhei Satō	DPJ		Yūhei Satō	DPJ	445,560	45.4	DPJ hold
		Mitsuhide Iwaki	LDP		Mitsuhide Iwaki	LDP	406,793	41.5	LDP hold
Kanto
Ibaraki		Hiroshi Okada	LDP		Hiroshi Okada	LDP	583,471	50.5	LDP hold
		Akira Gunji	DPJ		Akira Gunji	DPJ	477,948	41.3	DPJ hold
Tochigi		Susumu Yanase	DPJ		Susumu Yanase	DPJ	388,356	49.2	DPJ hold
		Tetsuro Yano	LDP		Tetsuro Yano	LDP	332,513	42.1	LDP hold
Gunma		Kosei Ueno	LDP		Yukio Tomioka	DPJ	314,996	34.5	DPJ gain from LDP
		Hirofumi Nakasone	LDP		Hirofumi Nakasone	LDP	276,229	30.3	LDP hold
Saitama		Toshio Fujii	DPJ		Chiyako Shimada	DPJ	824,127	28.4	DPJ hold
		Masakazu Sekiguchi	LDP		Masakazu Sekiguchi	LDP	718,689	24.8	LDP hold
		Renzo Togashi	JCP		Makoto Nishida	Komei	539,417	18.6	Komei gain from JCP
Chiba		Wakako Hironaka	DPJ		Wakako Hironaka	DPJ	1,187,663	49.1	DPJ hold
		Kazuyasu Shiina	LDP		Kazuyasu Shiina	LDP	944,231	39.0	LDP hold
Tokyo		Miyo Inoue	JCP		Masaharu Nakagawa	LDP	1,014,293	18.3	LDP gain from JCP
		Toshio Ogawa	DPJ		Toshio Ogawa	DPJ	991,477	17.9	DPJ hold
		Atsuo Nakamura	Green		Renhō	DPJ	924,643	16.7	DPJ gain from Green
		Toshiko Hamayotsu	Komei		Yuji Sawa	Komei	827,091	14.9	Komei hold
Kanagawa		Kimie Hatano	JCP		Akio Koizumi	LDP	1,217,100	33.2	LDP gain from JCP
		Keiichiro Asao	DPJ		Keiichiro Asao	DPJ	856,504	23.4	DPJ hold
		Keiko Chiba	DPJ		Keiko Chiba	DPJ	843,759	23.0	DPJ hold
Chubu
Niigata		Kinuko Oofuchi	SDP		Masamichi Kondo	Ind.	428,117	34.9	Ind. gain from SDP
		Naoki Tanaka	LDP		Naoki Tanaka	LDP	367,059	29.9	LDP hold
Toyama		Masaaki Tanibayashi	DPJ		Tsunenori Kawai	LDP	236,318	46.3	LDP gain from DPJ
Ishikawa		Souta Iwamoto	Ind.		Naoki Okada	LDP	289,697	56.1	LDP gain from Ind.
Fukui		Masaaki Yamazaki	LDP		Masaaki Yamazaki	LDP	218,885	56.0	LDP hold
Yamanashi		Azuma Koshiishi	DPJ		Azuma Koshiishi	DPJ	231,631	55.1	DPJ hold
Nagano		Toshimi Kitazawa	DPJ		Toshimi Kitazawa	DPJ	432,287	40.9	DPJ hold
		Masatoshi Wakabayashi	LDP		Masatoshi Wakabayashi	LDP	287,712	27.2	LDP hold
Gifu		Iwao Matsuda	LDP		Iwao Matsuda	LDP	428,988	44.5	LDP hold
		Yasuo Yamashita	DPJ		Yasuo Yamashita	DPJ	422,235	43.8	DPJ hold
Shizuoka		Yoshihiko Yamashita	LDP		Yukiko Sakamoto	LDP	501,618	29.2	LDP hold
		Tooru Unno	DPJ		Yuji Fujimoto	DPJ	369,573	21.6	DPJ hold
Aichi		Hiroko Hatta	JCP		Katsuhito Asano	LDP	824,941	28.2	LDP gain from JCP
		Taisuke Sato	DPJ		Taisuke Sato	DPJ	742,882	25.4	DPJ hold
		Yoshitake Kimata	DPJ		Yoshitake Kimata	DPJ	672,450	23.0	DPJ hold
Mie		Juuro Saito	LDP		Hirokazu Shiba	DPJ	470,940	52.1	DPJ gain from LDP
Kansai
Shiga		Eisuke Kawamoto	LDP		Kumiko Hayashi	DPJ	290,660	48.0	DPJ gain from LDP
Kyoto		Tetsuro Fukuyama	DPJ		Tetsuro Fukuyama	DPJ	484,297	43.8	DPJ hold
		Tokiko Nishiyama	JCP		Satoshi Ninoyu	LDP	358,512	32.4	LDP gain from JCP
Osaka		Kiyoshi Nishikawa	Ind.		Motoyuki Odachi	DPJ	910,597	24.9	DPJ gain from Ind.
		Eiichi Yamashita	Komei		Eiichi Yamashita	Komei	795,256	21.8	Komei hold
		Takeshi Miyamoto	JCP		Issei Kitagawa	LDP	735,164	20.1	LDP gain from JCP
Hyogo		Shoji Motooka	DPJ		Shunichi Mizuoka	DPJ	910,114	38.6	DPJ hold
		Tatsumi Osawa	JCP		Shinsuke Suematsu	LDP	791,286	33.5	LDP gain from JCP
Nara		Minao Hattori	LDP		Kiyoshige Maekawa	DPJ	311,990	38.9	DPJ gain from LDP
Wakayama		Yōsuke Tsuruho	LDP		Yōsuke Tsuruho	LDP	255,478	53.8	LDP hold
Chugoku
Tottori		Kotaro Tamura	LDP		Kotaro Tamura	LDP	151,737	49.7	LDP hold
Shimane		Mikio Aoki	LDP		Mikio Aoki	LDP	254,704	62.1	LDP hold
Okayama		Satsuki Eda	DPJ		Satsuki Eda	DPJ	498,515	55.7	DPJ hold
		Norifumi Kato	LDP	Seat abolished					LDP loss
Hiroshima		Minoru Yanagida	DPJ		Minoru Yanagida	DPJ	509,875	42.6	DPJ hold
		Ikuo Kamei	LDP		Ikuo Kamei	LDP	493,817	41.3	LDP hold
Yamaguchi		Masuo Matsuoka	DPJ		Nobuo Kishi	LDP	365,462	49.1	LDP gain from DPJ
Shikoku
Tokushima		Kiseko Takahashi	Green		Masakatsu Koike	LDP	166,032	47.1	LDP gain from Green
Kagawa		Toshio Yamauchi	LDP		Toshio Yamauchi	LDP	204,392	46.6	LDP hold
Ehime		Takeshi Noma	LDP		Junzo Yamamoto	LDP	322,152	49.4	LDP hold
Kochi		Hiroyuki Morishita	LDP		Hajime Hirota	Ind.	159,178	43.6	Ind. gain from LDP
Kyushu & Okinawa
Fukuoka		Kazuo Hirotomo	Komei		Tsutomu Okubo	DPJ	840,783	40.6	DPJ gain from Komei
		Gotaro Yoshimura	LDP		Gotaro Yoshimura	LDP	636,406	30.7	LDP hold
Saga		Hiromi Iwanaga	LDP		Hiromi Iwanaga	LDP	197,100	47.7	LDP hold
Nagasaki		Soichiro Matsutani	LDP		Tadashi Inuzuka	DPJ	344,606	39.5	DPJ gain from LDP
Kumamoto		Hitoshi Kimura	LDP		Hitoshi Kimura	LDP	411,542	48.9	LDP hold
		Ryoichi Honda	DPJ	Seat abolished					DPJ loss
Oita		Toshiya Nakamichi	LDP		Shinya Adachi	DPJ	341,741	54.8	DPJ gain from LDP
Miyazaki		Mitsuhiro Uesugi	LDP		Shinpei Matsushita	Ind.	277,352	48.5	Ind. gain from LDP
Kagoshima		Hiroshi Moriyama	LDP		Tetsuro Nomura	LDP	455,591	53.2	LDP hold
		Vacant	LDP	Seat abolished					LDP loss
Okinawa		Soko Shimabuku	Ind.		Keiko Itokazu	Ind.	316,148	58.9	Ind. gain from Ind.

Proportional representation results

Party		Votes	Seats	Elected member	Pref. votes
	DPJ	21,137,458 (37.8%)	19	Masao Kobayashi	301,322
				Toshiyuki Kato	247,917
				Masamitsu Naito	220,311
				Satoru Ienishi	217,095
				Mitsuyoshi Yanagisawa	216,760
				Masayuki Naoshima	211,257
				Masamitsu Oishi	209,382
				Shinkun Haku	203,052
				Masayoshi Nataniya	202,612
				Kenzo Fujisue	182,891
				Shoukichi Kina	178,815
				Yoshimitsu Takashima	167,818
				Yataro Tsuda	162,509
				Kentaro Kudo	142,656
				Yoriko Madoka	130,249
				Atsuko Shimoda	120,306
				Toru Matsuoka	114,136
				Takeshi Maeda	110,043
				Hideo Watanabe	106,141
	LDP	16,797,687 (30.0%)	15	Heizō Takenaka	722,505
				Tsukasa Akimoto	305,613
				Kensei Hasegawa	282,919
				Masashi Waki	253,738
				Hidetoshi Nishijima	250,426
				Eriko Yamatani	242,063
				Hirohiko Nakamura	199,510
				Shinya Izumi	196,499
				Kenji Ogiwara	194,854
				Tokio Kano	188,630
				Hiroyuki Arai	179,567
				Toshiei Mizuochi	171,945
				Akio Sato	167,350
				Chieko Nōno	152,685
				Yoshifumi Matsumura	152,630
	Komei	8,621,265 (15.4%)	8	Toshiko Hamayotsu	1,822,283
				Kazuo Hirotomo	996,188
				Masaaki Taniai	835,983
				Kiyohiro Araki	816,115
				Hisashi Kazama	787,886
				Tomoko Ukishima	773,749
				Masayoshi Hamada	33,310
				Yoko Wanibuchi	17,173
	JCP	4,362,574 (7.8%)	4	Tadayoshi Ichida	199,930
				Akira Koike	105,481
				Sohei Nihi	73,662
				Mikishi Daimon	73,631
	SDP	2,990,665 (5.3%)	2	Mizuho Fukushima	640,832
				Sadao Fuchigami	122,640