2003 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election

2003 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election
20 September 2003
 
Candidate Junichiro Koizumi Shizuka Kamei
Leader's seat Kanagawa 11th Hiroshima 6th
LDP MPs 194 (54.34%) 66 (18.49%)
Party members 205 (68.33%) 73 (24.33%)
Total 399 (60.73%) 139 (21.16%)
 
Candidate Takao Fujii Masahiko Kōmura
Leader's seat Tōkai block Yamaguchi 1st
LDP MPs 50 (14.01%) 47 (13.17%)
Party members 15 (5.00%) 7 (2.33%)
Total 65 (9.89%) 54 (8.22%)
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]

Candidates

Declared

Candidate(s) Date of birth Current position Party faction Electoral district
Junichiro Koizumi		 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
 None
(former Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai)
Kanagawa 11th
Shizuka Kamei		 1 November 1936
(age 66)		 Member of the House of Representatives
(since 1979)
Previous offices held
 Shisuikai
(Kamei)
Hiroshima 6th
Takao Fujii		 14 March 1943
(age 60)		 Member of the House of Representatives
(since 1993)
Previous offices held
 Heisei Kenkyūkai
(Hashimoto)		 Tōkai block
Masahiko Kōmura		 15 March 1942
(age 61)		 Member of the House of Representatives
(since 1980)
Previous offices held
 Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo
(Kōmura)
Yamaguchi 1st

Declined

Supporters

Recommenders

Party regulations require candidates to have the written support at least 20 Diet members, known as recommenders, to run.

Junichiro Koizumi[8]
Leader of recommenders
Campaign Manager
Recommenders
Shizuka Kamei[9]
Leader of recommenders
Campaign Manager
Recommenders
Takao Fujii[10]
Leader of recommenders
Campaign Manager
Recommenders
Masahiko Kōmura[11]
Leader of recommenders
Campaign Manager
Recommenders
Number of supporters by factions
Candidates Junichiro Koizumi Shizuka Kamei Takao Fujii Masahiko Kōmura
Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo 0 0 0 12
Heisei Kenkyūkai 4 0 20 0
Daiyukai 2 0 0 2
Kinmirai Seiji Kenkyūkai 4 0 0 1
Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai 4 0 0 0
Shin Zaisei Kenkyūkai 1 0 0 2
Shisuikai 0 20 0 1
Yūrinkai 4 0 0 0
No faction 1 0 0 2

Debates

Official

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]

Opinion polls

Polling

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

Results

Full results[14][15]
Candidate Diet members Party members Total points
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%

Results of Party Members' Votes by Prefecture

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% 6 7,176 18.83% 2 4,973 13.05% 1 2,342 6.14% 0
Akita 6,285 53.36% 3 2,702 22.94% 1 1,925 16.34% 1 866 7.35% 0
Aomori 4,150 44.66% 3 1,810 19.48% 1 1,016 10.93% 0 2,316 24.92% 1
Chiba 10,468 56.97% 4 5,046 27.46% 2 829 4.51% 0 2,030 11.05% 0
Ehime 19,695 55.81% 6 10,279 29.13% 3 2,156 6.11% 0 3,158 8.95% 0
Fukui 8,837 59.15% 3 4,507 30.17% 2 992 6.64% 0 604 4.04% 0
Fukuoka 11,151 59.84% 5 4,015 21.55% 1 1,856 9.96% 0 1,613 8.66% 0
Fukushima 10,173 63.69% 4 4,126 25.83% 2 742 4.65% 0 931 5.83% 0
Gifu 7,294 19.00% 1 1,152 3.00% 0 29,272 76.27% 7 663 1.73% 0
Gunma 15,074 60.22% 5 6,076 24.27% 2 2,919 11.66% 0 962 3.84% 0
Hiroshima 11,750 29.51% 3 25,865 64.95% 6 599 1.50% 0 1,607 4.04% 0
Hokkaido 18,960 50.40% 5 11,745 31.22% 3 4,664 12.40% 1 2,251 5.98% 0
Hyōgo 15,243 58.84% 6 7,047 27.20% 2 1,532 5.91% 0 2,084 8.04% 0
Ibaraki 20,277 53.57% 6 13,217 34.92% 4 1,752 4.63% 0 2,605 6.88% 0
Ishikawa 19,616 74.50% 6 4,050 15.38% 1 1,231 4.68% 0 1,432 5.44% 0
Iwate 5,810 61.22% 4 2,342 24.68% 1 595 6.27% 0 743 7.83% 0
Kagawa 12,168 68.47% 5 4,111 23.13% 1 472 2.66% 0 1,019 5.73% 0
Kagoshima 16,584 69.61% 6 4,614 19.37% 1 1,590 6.67% 0 1,036 4.35% 0
Kanagawa 29,621 77.78% 8 4,690 12.31% 1 1,836 4.82% 0 1,937 5.09% 0
Kōchi 5,475 55.54% 3 2,105 21.36% 1 386 3.92% 0 1,891 19.18% 1
Kumamoto 8,150 52.54% 4 5,161 33.27% 2 1,457 9.39% 0 744 4.80% 0
Kyoto 8,641 53.45% 3 2,345 14.50% 1 4,333 26.80% 2 848 5.25% 0
Mie 8,630 64.51% 4 2,270 16.97% 1 1,729 12.93% 0 748 5.59% 0
Miyagi 8,448 63.72% 4 2,807 21.17% 1 717 5.41% 0 1,287 9.71% 0
Miyazaki 4,043 39.39% 2 5,338 52.01% 3 517 5.04% 0 366 3.57% 0
Nagano 10,751 59.68% 4 3,222 17.89% 1 2,893 16.06% 1 1,149 6.38% 0
Nagasaki 11,008 57.94% 5 5,508 28.99% 2 1,208 6.36% 0 1,274 6.71% 0
Nara 6,227 63.63% 4 1,815 18.55% 1 1,174 12.00% 0 571 5.83% 0
Niigata 10,499 37.41% 3 15,984 56.96% 4 496 1.77% 0 1,084 3.86% 0
Ōita 7,602 60.90% 4 3,592 28.78% 1 528 4.23% 0 760 6.09% 0
Okayama 7,857 38.88% 3 7,050 34.89% 2 4,310 21.33% 1 989 4.89% 0
Okinawa 1,225 55.06% 3 543 24.40% 1 372 16.72% 0 85 3.82% 0
Osaka 18,375 65.53% 6 5,926 21.13% 2 2,183 7.78% 0 1,558 5.56% 0
Saga 6,846 56.29% 4 2,828 23.25% 1 1,638 13.47% 0 849 6.98% 0
Saitama 16,395 61.63% 5 6,779 25.48% 2 1,809 6.80% 0 1,620 6.09% 0
Shiga 10,406 65.71% 5 2,924 18.46% 1 1,517 9.58% 0 990 6.25% 0
Shimane 12,352 63.65% 5 4,013 20.68% 1 2,178 11.22% 0 862 4.44% 0
Shizuoka 21,771 69.63% 7 5,415 17.32% 1 2,207 7.06% 0 1,875 6.00% 0
Tochigi 9,786 60.24% 5 3,462 21.31% 1 1,547 9.52% 0 1,451 8.93% 0
Tokushima 3,545 46.98% 2 1,924 25.50% 1 469 6.22% 0 1,608 21.31% 1
Tokyo 36,967 72.41% 8 8,019 15.71% 1 1,844 3.61% 0 4,223 8.27% 1
Tottori 4,202 46.85% 2 2,540 28.32% 1 1,674 18.66% 1 554 6.18% 0
Toyama 22,275 65.32% 6 6,630 19.44% 2 3,268 9.58% 0 1,926 5.65% 0
Wakayama 5,196 74.46% 4 1,027 14.72% 0 461 6.61% 0 294 4.21% 0
Yamagata 7,436 68.64% 4 2,477 22.87% 1 334 3.08% 0 586 5.41% 0
Yamaguchi 7,567 41.21% 3 2,339 12.74% 0 168 0.91% 0 8,290 45.14% 3
Yamanashi 7,313 61.36% 4 2,179 18.28% 1 1,790 15.02% 0 637 5.34% 0
Total 555,771 57.29% 205 240,792 24.82% 73 104,158 10.74% 15 69,318 7.15% 7

References

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  4. ↑ Takahashi, Junko (23 September 2003). "Key ministers keep jobs as Koizumi plays it safe". The Japan Times. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  5. ↑ Takahashi, Junko; Yoshida, Reiji (11 October 2003). "Lower House dissolved". The Japan Times. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  6. 1 2 Takahashi, Junko (29 July 2003). "Koizumi appears set to stay on by default". The Japan Times. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  7. 1 2 Yoshida, Reiji (2 September 2003). "Fujii's hat drifting closer toward the ring". The Japan Times. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
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