2003 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election

2003 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election
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Previous President; Junichiro Koizumi;	President ; Junichiro Koizumi;

The 2003 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election was held on 20 September 2003 to elect the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, as the term of incumbent LDP president and Prime Minister of Japan, Junichiro Koizumi, was ending at the end of that month. Voting among party members of the prefectural chapters was held from September 8 to 19.^[1]

Koizumi easily won reelection, securing a majority of support.^[2] Successful to Koizumi's win were his support from the prefectural chapter members and members of the Mitsuo Horiuchi and Ryutaro Hashimoto factions. The election was mainly seen as a choice of who would be the party "face" in the upcoming House of Representatives election and House of Councillors election.^[3] After winning the election, Koizumi appointed a new cabinet, including future Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as Chief Cabinet Secretary.^[4] On October 10, Koizumi dissolved the House of Representatives and set the general election date for November 9.^[5]

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Candidate(s)	Date of birth	Current position	Party faction	Electoral district
Junichiro Koizumi	(1942-01-08)8 January 1942 (age 61)	Prime Minister (since 2001) President of the Liberal Democratic Party (since 2001) Member of the House of Representatives (since 1972) Previous offices held Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (1988–1989; 1996–1998) Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (1992–1993)	None (former Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai)	Kanagawa 11th
Shizuka Kamei	(1936-11-01)1 November 1936 (age 66)	Member of the House of Representatives (since 1979) Previous offices held Minister of Construction (1996–1997) Minister of Transport (1994–1995)	Shisuikai (Kamei)	Hiroshima 6th
Takao Fujii	(1943-03-14)14 March 1943 (age 60)	Member of the House of Representatives (since 1993) Previous offices held Minister of Transport (1997–1998) Member of the House of Councillors (1981–1993)	Heisei Kenkyūkai (Hashimoto)	Tōkai block
Masahiko Kōmura	(1942-03-15)15 March 1942 (age 61)	Member of the House of Representatives (since 1980) Previous offices held Minister of Justice (2000–2001) Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998–1999) Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy [ja] (1994–1995)	Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo (Kōmura)	Yamaguchi 1st

Candidates	Junichiro Koizumi	Shizuka Kamei	Takao Fujii	Masahiko Kōmura
Candidates
Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo	0	0	0	12
Heisei Kenkyūkai	4	0	20	0
Kinmirai Seiji Kenkyūkai	4	0	0	1
Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai	4	0	0	0
Shikōkai	2	0	0	2
Shin Zaisei Kenkyūkai [ja]	1	0	0	2
Shisuikai	0	20	0	1
Yūrinkai [ja]	4	0	0	0
No faction	1	0	0	2

Date	P Participant I Invited N Not invited A Absent E Eliminated				Host	Location	Source
	Koizumi	Kamei	Fujii	Kōmura

11 September	P	P	P	P	Japan National Press Club	Japan Press Center	^[12]

Fieldwork date	Polling firm	Sample size	Junichiro Koizumi	Shizuka Kamei	Takao Fujii	Masahiko Kōmura	NOT/ UD/NA
Fieldwork date	Polling firm	Sample size					NOT/ UD/NA
9–10 Sep	Asahi^[13]	Unknown	81%	6%	2%	4%	7%

Candidate		Diet members		Party members				Total points
Candidate		Votes	%	Popular votes	%	Allocated votes	%	Total votes	%
	Junichiro Koizumi 当	194	54.34%	555,771	57.29%	205	68.33%	399	60.73%
	Shizuka Kamei	66	18.49%	240,792	24.82%	73	24.33%	139	21.16%
	Takao Fujii	50	14.01%	104,158	10.74%	15	5.00%	65	9.89%
	Masahiko Kōmura	47	13.17%	69,318	7.15%	7	2.33%	54	8.22%
Total		357	100.00%	970,039	100.00%	300	100.00%	657	100.00%

Valid votes		357	100.00%	970,039	99.76%	300	100.00%	657	100.00%
Invalid and blank votes		0	0.00%	2,380	0.24%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%

Turnout		357	100.00%	972,419	69.33%	300	100.00%	657	100.00%
Registered voters		357	100.00%	1,402,621	100.00%	300	100.00%	657	100.00%

2003 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election

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Incumbent President: Junichiro Koizumi
Junichiro Koizumi Shizuka Kamei Takao Fujii Masahiko Kōmura

Results of Party Members' Votes by Prefecture^[15]
Prefecture	Junichiro Koizumi		Shizuka Kamei		Takao Fujii		Masahiko Kōmura

	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
Aichi	23,627	61.98%	7,176	18.83%	4,973	13.05%	2,342	6.14%
Akita	6,285	53.36%	2,702	22.94%	1,925	16.34%	866	7.35%
Aomori	4,150	44.66%	1,810	19.48%	1,016	10.93%	2,316	24.92%
Chiba	10,468	56.97%	5,046	27.46%	829	4.51%	2,030	11.05%
Ehime	19,695	55.81%	10,279	29.13%	2,156	6.11%	3,158	8.95%
Fukui	8,837	59.15%	4,507	30.17%	992	6.64%	604	4.04%
Fukuoka	11,151	59.84%	4,015	21.55%	1,856	9.96%	1,613	8.66%
Fukushima	10,173	63.69%	4,126	25.83%	742	4.65%	931	5.83%
Gifu	7,294	19.00%	1,152	3.00%	29,272	76.27%	663	1.73%
Gunma	15,074	60.22%	6,076	24.27%	2,919	11.66%	962	3.84%
Hiroshima	11,750	29.51%	25,865	64.95%	599	1.50%	1,607	4.04%
Hokkaido	18,960	50.40%	11,745	31.22%	4,664	12.40%	2,251	5.98%
Hyōgo	15,243	58.84%	7,047	27.20%	1,532	5.91%	2,084	8.04%
Ibaraki	20,277	53.57%	13,217	34.92%	1,752	4.63%	2,605	6.88%
Ishikawa	19,616	74.50%	4,050	15.38%	1,231	4.68%	1,432	5.44%
Iwate	5,810	61.22%	2,342	24.68%	595	6.27%	743	7.83%
Kagawa	12,168	68.47%	4,111	23.13%	472	2.66%	1,019	5.73%
Kagoshima	16,584	69.61%	4,614	19.37%	1,590	6.67%	1,036	4.35%
Kanagawa	29,621	77.78%	4,690	12.31%	1,836	4.82%	1,937	5.09%
Kōchi	5,475	55.54%	2,105	21.36%	386	3.92%	1,891	19.18%
Kumamoto	8,150	52.54%	5,161	33.27%	1,457	9.39%	744	4.80%
Kyoto	8,641	53.45%	2,345	14.50%	4,333	26.80%	848	5.25%
Mie	8,630	64.51%	2,270	16.97%	1,729	12.93%	748	5.59%
Miyagi	8,448	63.72%	2,807	21.17%	717	5.41%	1,287	9.71%
Miyazaki	4,043	39.39%	5,338	52.01%	517	5.04%	366	3.57%
Nagano	10,751	59.68%	3,222	17.89%	2,893	16.06%	1,149	6.38%
Nagasaki	11,008	57.94%	5,508	28.99%	1,208	6.36%	1,274	6.71%
Nara	6,227	63.63%	1,815	18.55%	1,174	12.00%	571	5.83%
Niigata	10,499	37.41%	15,984	56.96%	496	1.77%	1,084	3.86%
Ōita	7,602	60.90%	3,592	28.78%	528	4.23%	760	6.09%
Okayama	7,857	38.88%	7,050	34.89%	4,310	21.33%	989	4.89%
Okinawa	1,225	55.06%	543	24.40%	372	16.72%	85	3.82%
Osaka	18,375	65.53%	5,926	21.13%	2,183	7.78%	1,558	5.56%
Saga	6,846	56.29%	2,828	23.25%	1,638	13.47%	849	6.98%
Saitama	16,395	61.63%	6,779	25.48%	1,809	6.80%	1,620	6.09%
Shiga	10,406	65.71%	2,924	18.46%	1,517	9.58%	990	6.25%
Shimane	12,352	63.65%	4,013	20.68%	2,178	11.22%	862	4.44%
Shizuoka	21,771	69.63%	5,415	17.32%	2,207	7.06%	1,875	6.00%