This article presents detailed results of the 2000 Japanese general election. The results are separated into each of the eleven proportional representation blocks and their corresponding prefectures. In the following tables, candidates elected via single-member district are highlighted in green, while candidates elected via proportional representation are highlighted in red.
Electoral system
The House of Representatives is elected via parallel voting. In the 2000 election, 300 members were elected in single-member districts and 180 via party-list proportional representation in eleven multi-member constituencies, referred to as "PR blocks". Single-member districts are apportioned between prefectures and numbered (1st, 2nd, etc). Candidates may run solely in a single-member district, solely in PR, or both (dual listing). Dual listed candidates must win at least 10% of the vote in their single-member district in order to be eligible for election via PR. Dual listed candidates who win their single-member district race are not eligible for election via PR.
Candidates on PR lists may be ranked sequentially or, if they are dual listed, ranked equally with one another. If ranked equally, the best-loser ratio (sekihairitsu) of each candidate determines the order of election. This number is determined by dividing their single-member district votes by those of the winning candidate in that district. In this way, the losing candidates who performed best will be elected first.
If a party wins more seats than they have eligible candidates in a PR block, their seats will be distributed to other parties in accordance with the PR formula.
Hokkaido block
+ Single-member constituency results in Hokkaido Constituency Previous member Elected member Votes % Margin Runner-up % Status Hokkaido 1st Takahiro Yokomichi DPJ Takahiro Yokomichi DPJ 132,514 50.7 56,467 Yoshitaka Kimoto LDP 29.1 DPJ hold Hokkaido 2nd Komei Takamori Yoshikawa LDP 76,276 31.2 12,311 Yukiko Ishida DPJ 26.1 LDP gain from Komei Hokkaido 3rd Gaku Ishizaki LDP Satoshi Arai DPJ 96,653 40.5 5,959 Gaku Ishizaki LDP 38.0 DPJ gain from LDP Hokkaido 4th LDP Shizuo Sato LDP 88,825 42.9 7,020 DPJ 39.5 LDP hold Hokkaido 5th Nobutaka Machimura LDP Nobutaka Machimura LDP 123,680 46.0 39,049 DPJ 31.4 LDP hold Hokkaido 6th DPJ Hidenori Sasaki DPJ 70,680 39.9 1,899 Hiroshi Imazu LDP 38.9 DPJ hold Hokkaido 7th Eiko Kaneta LDP Eiko Kaneta LDP 94,290 49.2 8,737 DPJ 44.6 LDP hold Hokkaido 8th Yoshio Hachiro DPJ Yoshio Hachiro DPJ 123,638 47.3 12,087 LDP 42.7 DPJ hold Hokkaido 9th Yukio Hatoyama DPJ Yukio Hatoyama DPJ 131,500 45.5 2,525 LDP 44.6 DPJ hold Hokkaido 10th Tadamasa Kodaira DPJ Tadamasa Kodaira DPJ 106,221 48.2 19,025 LDP 39.6 DPJ hold Hokkaido 11th Shōichi Nakagawa LDP Shōichi Nakagawa LDP 112,297 57.7 54,811 Motoko Ideta DPJ 29.6 LDP hold Hokkaido 12th Tsutomu Takebe LDP Tsutomu Takebe LDP 100,502 53.2 26,339 DPJ 39.3 LDP hold Hokkaido 13th LDP Naoto Kitamura LDP 86,567 46.9 30,835 Hiroko Nakano DPJ 30.2 LDP hold
+Proportional representation results Party Votes Seats Rank Elected member Constituency Ratio DPJ 898,678 (31.2%) 3 1 2 Seiichi Kaneta 3 Wakio Mitsui LDP 735,318 (25.6%) 2 1 Muneo Suzuki 2 Hokkaido 9th 98.0% Komei 368,198 (12.8%) 1 1 Kaori Maruya JCP 365,061 (12.7%) 1 1 Hokkaido 3rd 42.9% SDP 255,319 (8.9%) 1 1
Tohoku block
+ Single-member constituency results in Tohoku Constituency Previous member Elected member Votes % Margin Runner-up %! Status Aomori 1st Yūji Tsushima LDP Yūji Tsushima LDP 96,691 51.4 55,985 SDP 21.6 LDP hold Aomori 2nd Akinori Eto LDP Shingo Mimura IA 80,338 46.9 6,220 Akinori Eto LDP 43.3 IA gain from LDP Aomori 3rd Tadamori Ōshima LDP Tadamori Ōshima LDP 93,602 56.6 29,399 Masami Tanabu DPJ 38.8 LDP hold Aomori 4th Tarō Kimura LDP Tarō Kimura LDP 126,056 69.0 89,702 Makiko Tazawa SDP 19.9 LDP hold Iwate 1st Takuya Tasso LP Takuya Tasso LP 74,835 43.0 9,238 Tokuichiro Tamazawa LDP 37.7 LP hold Iwate 2nd Shun'ichi Suzuki LDP Shun'ichi Suzuki LDP 119,022 58.7 65,279 Kentaro Kudo LP 26.5 LDP hold Iwate 3rd CP Toru Kikawada LP 58,776 30.9 6,408 Riki Nakamura Ind. 27.5 LP gain from CP Iwate 4th Ichirō Ozawa LP Ichirō Ozawa LP 119,099 59.7 81,682 Yukihiro Kimura SDP 18.8 LP hold Miyagi 1st Kazuo Aichi LDP Azuma Konno DPJ 88,864 42.0 15,025 Kazuo Aichi LDP 34.9 DPJ gain from LDP Miyagi 2nd Masashi Nakano LDP Sayuri Kamata DPJ 99,498 47.8 11,549 Masashi Nakano LDP 42.2 DPJ gain from LDP Miyagi 3rd Hiroshi Mitsuzuka LDP Hiroshi Mitsuzuka LDP 84,278 52.0 43,382 Katsuhiro Koyama DPJ 25.2 LDP hold Miyagi 4th Soichiro Ito LDP Soichiro Ito LDP 104,711 57.5 54,738 Yukino Sakunami DPJ 27.4 LDP hold Miyagi 5th Jun Azumi DPJ Jun Azumi DPJ 69,459 47.2 1,222 LDP 46.4 DPJ hold Miyagi 6th Masamitsu Oishi DPJ Masamitsu Oishi DPJ 59,588 37.7 14,959 Kyuichiro Sato LDP 28.2 DPJ hold Akita 1st DPJ Koji Futada LDP 101,848 44.0 535 Takao Sato DPJ 43.8 LDP gain from DPJ Akita 2nd Hosei Norota LDP Hosei Norota LDP 89,428 54.3 39,985 SDP 30.0 LDP hold Akita 3rd LDP Kanezo Muraoka LDP 170,176 63.0 124,604 Tatsuro Nakajima DPJ 16.9 LDP hold Yamagata 1st Michihiko Kano DPJ Michihiko Kano DPJ 90,349 52.0 20,059 Toshiaki Endo LDP 40.5 DPJ hold Yamagata 2nd Takehiko Endo LDP Takehiko Endo LDP 93,819 51.3 16,328 Yosuke Kondo Ind. 42.3 LDP hold Yamagata 3rd LDP Riichiro Chikaoka LDP 88,069 57.2 32,178 Shosuke Saito SDP 36.3 LDP hold Yamagata 4th Koichi Kato LDP Koichi Kato LDP 131,181 72.1 95,095 Takayoshi Sagae DPJ 19.8 LDP hold Fukushima 1st Tatsuo Sato LDP Tatsuo Sato LDP 89,353 30.2 20,478 Yoshitami Kameoka Ind. 23.3 LDP hold Fukushima 2nd Takumi Nemoto LDP Takumi Nemoto LDP 116,835 52.5 36,830 Teruhiko Mashiko DPJ 35.9 LDP hold Fukushima 3rd Hiroyuki Arai LDP Kōichirō Genba DPJ 118,385 53.8 27,304 LDP 41.4 DPJ gain from LDP Fukushima 4th Kōzō Watanabe IA Kōzō Watanabe IA 102,631 50.7 14,130 LDP 43.7 IA hold Fukushima 5th Goji Sakamoto LDP Masayoshi Yoshino LDP 109,270 52.6 35,367 Izumi Yoshida DPJ 35.6 LDP hold
+Proportional representation results Party Votes Seats Rank Elected member Constituency Ratio LDP 1,545,028 (32.0%) 5 1 2 Hiroyuki Arai 3 4 Goji Sakamoto 5 DPJ 1,024,253 (21.2%) 3 1 2 3 Akita 1st 99.4% LP 786,751 (16.3) 3 3 4 Kentaro Kudo Iwate 2nd 45.1% 5 SDP 517,267 (10.7%) 1 1 Tetsuo Kanno Miyagi 6th 69.0% Komei 474,238 (9.8%) 1 1 Yoshihisa Inoue JCP 391,055 (8.1%) 1 1
Northern Kanto block
+ Single-member constituency results in Northern Kanto Constituency Previous member Elected member Votes % Margin Runner-up % Status Ibaraki 1st Norihiko Akagi LDP Norihiko Akagi LDP 132,229 59.0 79,045 Yumi Sato DPJ 23.7 LDP hold Ibaraki 2nd Fukushiro Nukaga LDP Fukushiro Nukaga LDP 135,296 67.2 80,598 Yoshiharu Tokoi DPJ 27.2 LDP hold Ibaraki 3rd LDP LDP 97,972 47.8 18,742 DPJ 38.7 LDP hold Ibaraki 4th Seiroku Kajiyama LDP Hiroshi Kajiyama LDP 139,817 83.4 111,890 Kiichi Owada JCP 16.6 LDP hold Ibaraki 5th LDP Akihiro Ohata DPJ 65,995 45.7 3,620 Hideo Okabe LDP 43.2 DPJ gain from LDP Ibaraki 6th Yuya Niwa LDP Yuya Niwa LDP 125,581 56.5 74,289 Hiroko Igarashi DPJ 23.1 LDP hold Ibaraki 7th Kishirō Nakamura Ind. Kishirō Nakamura Ind. 88,095 44.1 36,271 Katsuya Tanaka Ind. 26.0 Ind. hold Tochigi 1st Hajime Funada LDP DPJ 107,634 48.0 16,223 Hajime Funada LDP 40.7 DPJ gain from LDP Tochigi 2nd Koya Nishikawa LDP Koya Nishikawa LDP 77,054 48.1 2,922 Mamoru Kobayashi DPJ 46.3 LDP hold Tochigi 3rd Yoshimi Watanabe LDP Yoshimi Watanabe LDP 112,358 83.4 89,966 Shozo Maki JCP 16.6 LDP hold Tochigi 4th Tsutomu Sato LDP Tsutomu Sato LDP 115,284 48.8 49,424 Kenji Yamaoka LP 27.9 LDP hold Tochigi 5th Toshimitsu Motegi LDP Toshimitsu Motegi LDP 108,837 63.6 59,666 DPJ 28.7 LDP hold Gunma 1st Kōji Omi LDP Genichiro Sata LDP 134,247 59.1 72,589 DPJ 27.2 LDP hold Gunma 2nd Takashi Sasagawa LDP Takashi Sasagawa LDP 76,743 39.7 20,121 Osamu Morita Ind. 29.3 LDP hold Gunma 3rd Yoshio Yatsu LDP Yoshio Yatsu LDP 99,345 57.6 38,509 Hiroyoshi Sasagawa DPJ 35.2 LDP hold Gunma 4th Yasuo Fukuda LDP Yasuo Fukuda LDP 94,517 57.7 45,454 DPJ 29.9 LDP hold Gunma 5th Keizō Obuchi LDP Yūko Obuchi LDP 163,991 76.4 128,222 SDP 16.7 LDP hold Saitama 1st Hikaru Matsunaga LDP Koichi Takemasa DPJ 105,783 42.7 18,425 Hikaru Matsunaga LDP 35.2 DPJ gain from LDP Saitama 2nd RC Yoshitaka Shindō LDP 82,581 35.3 3,026 Katsuyuki Ishida RC 34.0 LDP gain from RC Saitama 3rd Hiroshi Imai LDP Ritsuo Hosokawa DPJ 105,054 47.0 17,710 Hiroshi Imai LDP 39.1 DPJ gain from LDP Saitama 4th Kiyoshi Ueda DPJ Kiyoshi Ueda DPJ 106,131 49.3 36,069 Chuko Hayakawa LDP 32.5 DPJ hold Saitama 5th LDP Yukio Edano DPJ 106,711 45.5 20,532 Nobuhiko Fukunaga LDP 36.8 DPJ gain from LDP Saitama 6th Kaneshige Wakamatsu Komei Atsushi Oshima DPJ 80,342 35.6 2,342 Kaneshige Wakamatsu Komei 34.6 DPJ gain from Komei Saitama 7th Kiyoshi Nakano LDP Kiyoshi Nakano LDP 76,366 34.5 23,032 Yasuko Komiyama Ind. 24.1 LDP hold Saitama 8th Masayoshi Namiki RC DPJ 52,816 28.3 1,826 LDP 27.3 DPJ gain from RC Saitama 9th Matsushige Ono LDP Matsushige Ono LDP 110,836 48.6 28,316 DPJ 36.2 LDP hold Saitama 10th Taimei Yamaguchi LDP Taimei Yamaguchi LDP 91,094 49.2 29,083 Tetsuhisa Matsuzaki DPJ 33.5 LDP hold Saitama 11th LDP Ryuji Koizumi Ind. 89,084 38.8 11,314 Takuji Kato LDP 33.9 Ind. gain from LDP Saitama 12th Toshio Masuda LDP Toshio Kojima LDP 101,809 48.8 16,045 Taneaki Tanami DPJ 41.1 LDP hold Saitama 13th Shinako Tsuchiya IA Shinako Tsuchiya IA 127,028 51.7 86,993 LP 16.3 IA hold Saitama 14th LDP Takashi Mitsubayashi LDP 81,652 37.7 34,347 Masayuki Nagamine DPJ 21.8 LDP hold
+Proportional representation results Party Votes Seats Rank Elected member Constituency Ratio LDP 1,924,629 (30.6%) 7 1 Yasuhiro Nakasone 2 Mayumi Moriyama 3 3 Kōji Omi 5 Toshio Masuda 6 7 DPJ 1,552,220 (24.7%) 5 1 Zenjiro Kaneko 2 Mamoru Kobayashi Tochigi 2nd 96.2% 2 Taneaki Tanami Saitama 12th 84.2% 2 Ibaraki 3rd 80.8% 2 Saitama 9th 74.4% Komei 793,124 (12.6%) 3 1 Keiichi Ishii 2 3 Kaneshige Wakamatsu Saitama 6th 97.0% LP 781,818 (12.4%) 2 1 Kenji Yamaoka Tochigi 4th 57.1% 1 Saitama 13th 31.5% JCP 672,615 (10.7%) 2 1 Saitama 7th 48.7% 2 Tetsuya Shiokawa Saitama 8th 65.0% SDP 518,647 (8.3%) 1 1 Fumihiro Himori Saitama 13th 30.4%
Southern Kanto block