2003 Shinjuku local election explained

Shinjuku, Tokyo held an election to the local ward assembly on April 27, 2003,^[1] as part of the 15th unified local elections.

Candidates

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Incumbents

• , a 49-year-old woman
• , a 47-year-old woman
• , a 65-year-old man
• , a 55-year-old man
• , a 54-year-old man
• , a 33-year-old woman
• , a 38-year-old man
• , a 69-year-old man
• , a 47-year-old woman and later Tokyo Metropolitan Assemblywoman^[2]
• , a 57-year-old man
• , a 55-year-old woman
• , a 37-year-old man
• , a 55-year-old man
• , a 51-year-old woman
• , a 36-year-old woman
• , a 66-year-old man
• , a 57-year-old woman
• , a 50-year-old man
• , a 64-year-old man and later 2010 candidate for Shinjuku mayor.^[3]
• , a 41-year-old man
• , a 48-year-old man
• , a 65-year-old man
• , a 39-year-old man
• , a 62-year-old man
• , a 57-year-old man
• , a 66-year-old woman
• , a 59-year-old man
• , a 37-year-old woman
• , a 35-year-old man
• , a 59-year-old man
• , a 48-year-old woman
• , a 50-year-old man
• , a 55-year-old man
• , a 60-year-old man
• , a 59-year-old man

Newcomers

• , a 46-year-old man
• , a 60-year-old man
• , a 45-year-old man
• , a 45-year-old man
• , a 31-year-old man
• , a 38-year-old man
• , a 59-year-old man
• , a 42-year-old man
• , a 57-year-old man
• , a 50-year-old man
• , a 41-year-old man
• , a 64-year-old man and previously Shinjuku mayor candidate in 1999 and 2002.^[4]
• , a 30-year-old man
• , a 31-year-old man, later Tokyo Metropolitan Assemblyman and mayor of Shinjuku^[5]

Two of the male candidates, 54-year-old male and 39-year-old male, were previously in this office.

Results

|-! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" |Parties! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats|-| style="text-align:left;" |New Komeito party (公明党, Kōmeitō)| style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 9|-| style="text-align:left;" |Japanese Communist Party (日本共産党, Nihon Kyōsan-tō)| style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 9|-| style="text-align:left;" |Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (自由民主党, Jiyū Minshutō)| style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 8|-| style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Party of Japan (民主党, Minshutō)| style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 3|-| style="text-align:left;" | New Socialist Party| style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 1|-| style="text-align:left;" | Independents| style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 8|-|style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 40.52%)|width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 91,293|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 100.00|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 38|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan=4 |Source: Official results |}

Candidate results

Notes and References

1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20070430215627/http://www.city.shinjuku.tokyo.jp/division/530101senkan/kekka/20030427k.htm. 2007-04-30. 新宿区議会議員選挙開票結果. 2017-12-19. ja.
2. Web site: 猪爪まさみ（イノツメマサミ）｜政治家情報｜選挙ドットコム.
3. Web site: 松ヶ谷匡男（マツガヤマサオ）｜政治家情報｜選挙ドットコム.
4. Web site: 漆原順一（ウルシバラジュンイチ）｜政治家情報｜選挙ドットコム.
5. Web site: 吉住健一（ヨシズミケンイチ）｜政治家情報｜選挙ドットコム.