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参院選で自民敗北、民主躍進
11日投開票された参議院選挙で、自民党は目標とした改選51議席を割り込み敗北。民主党は大幅に躍進し、獲得議席で自民党を上回った。
Ruling bloc retains majority but opposition scores big gain in election
The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won more seats than the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the House of Councilors election July 11, marking the first time the LDP was outperformed by an opposition party since 1989.
The LDP fell shy of its target of winning 51 seats, but the party's ruling alliance with New Komeito retained a solid majority in the 242-seat Upper House.
Of the 121 seats contested, the LDP won 49 against the 50 captured by the DPJ.
The LDP's score was the third-lowest for the party in an Upper House election since the party was founded in 1955. It was sharply down from the 64 seats captured in the last Upper House race in 2001, when the LDP rode on the enormous popularity of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi right after his inauguration.
For the DPJ, the result marked a sharp gain from the 38 seats it had up for grabs in the race.
Voter turnout was 56.57 percent in the constituency section of the election, up 0.13 percentage points from the 2001 Upper House election.
New Komeito won 11 seats - one more than the 10 it had up for grabs.
Although the LDP-New Komeito alliance slightly fell short of a majority in the 121 contested seats, they retained a comfortable majority of 139 in the Upper House, since they together hold 79 seats that were not contested this time.
The Japanese Communist Party had dismal results, winning only four seats - down sharply from the 15 it had up for grabs.
The Social Democratic Party meanwhile retained its two seats that were in contention.
In the proportional representation segment of the election, the DPJ topped the LDP and took the largest share, with 19 of the 48 seats up for grabs, while the LDP took 15.
The leaders of the ruling bloc agreed July 12 to keep Koizumi as their leader. (Kyodo, The Japan Times)
Shukan ST: July 23, 2004
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- Ruling bloc
- 与党連合
- retains majority
- 過半数を維持する
- scores big gain
- 議席を大幅に増やす
- Democratic Party of Japan
- 民主党
- won more seats than 〜
- 〜より多くの議席を獲得した
- Liberal Democratic Party
- 自民党
- House of Councilors election
- 参議院選挙
- 〜 was outperformed by 〜
- 〜が〜をしのいだ
- fell shy of 〜
- 〜という目標に達しなかった
- ruling alliance
- 与党連合
- New Komeito
- 公明党
- Upper House
- 参議院の略称
- contested
- 争われた
- captured by 〜
- 〜が獲得した
- third-lowest
- 過去3番目に悪い
- was founded
- 結成された
- rode on the enormous popularity of 〜
- 〜の大人気に乗っかった
- inauguration
- 就任
- 〜 it had up for grabs
- 改選議席の〜
- Voter turnout
- 投票率
- constituency section
- 選挙区
- slightly fell short of a majority
- わずかに過半数に達しなかった
- Japanese Communist Party
- 共産党
- dismal
- 惨たんたる
- Social Democratic Party
- 社民党
- proportional representation segment
- 比例区
- topped
- 上回った