2003 Shinjuku local election

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

Candidates

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Incumbents

 * Sanae Abe (阿部 早苗), a 49-year-old woman
 * Tsuyako Akaba (赤羽 艶子), a 47-year-old woman
 * Hiroshi Akita (秋田 博), a 65-year-old man
 * Takehiko Amemiya (雨宮 武彦), a 55-year-old man
 * Teruhisa Asō (麻生 輝久), a 54-year-old man
 * Tamie Azami (あざみ 民栄), a 33-year-old woman
 * Hidetaka Enoki (榎 秀隆), a 38-year-old man
 * Isamu Gonnami (権並 勇), a 69-year-old man
 * Masami Inotsume (猪爪 まさみ), a 47-year-old woman and later Tokyo Metropolitan Assemblywoman
 * Hideo Kami (上 秀夫), a 57-year-old man
 * Tsuyako Kasai (笠井 艶子), a 55-year-old woman
 * Akihiko Kawade (川出 昭彦), a 37-year-old man
 * Tatsuo Kawano (河野 達男), a 55-year-old man
 * Masako Komatsu (小松 政子), a 51-year-old woman
 * Natsuko Kondō (近藤 奈津子), a 36-year-old woman
 * Gōsuke Kubo (久保 合介), a 66-year-old man
 * Sumiko Kumagai (熊谷 澄子), a 57-year-old woman
 * Kōhei Kuwabara (桑原 公平), a 50-year-old man
 * Masao Matsugaya (松ヶ谷 匡男), a 64-year-old man and later 2010 candidate for Shinjuku mayor.
 * Kimihiro Matsukawa (松川 公浩), a 41-year-old man
 * Toshifumi Miyasaka (宮坂 俊文), a 48-year-old man
 * Yoshihiko Nakamura (中村 吉彦), a 65-year-old man
 * Takeshi Nodzu (野頭 健), a 39-year-old man
 * Fumiaki Noguchi (野口 史章), a 62-year-old man
 * Michio Obata (小畑 通夫), a 57-year-old man
 * Kimiko Ono (小野 紀美子), a 66-year-old woman
 * Takeshi Sahara (佐原 勇), a 59-year-old man
 * Ayumi Sawada (沢田 あゆみ), a 37-year-old woman
 * Yūichirō Shida (志田 雄一郎), a 35-year-old man
 * Masaaki Sometani (染谷 正明), a 59-year-old man
 * Yukie Suzuki (鈴木 幸枝), a 48-year-old woman
 * Norihide Tanaka (田中 憲秀), a 50-year-old man
 * Masao Toyoshima (豊嶋 正雄), a 55-year-old man
 * Toshiyuki Yamada (山田 敏行), a 60-year-old man
 * Iwao Yamazoe (山添 巌), a 59-year-old man

Newcomers
Two of the male candidates, 54-year-old male Jirō Nemoto (根本 二郎) and 39-year-old male Kenji Yamaguchi (山口 健二), were previously in this office.
 * Toshirō Arima (有馬 俊郎), a 46-year-old man
 * Toshisada Fukazawa (深沢 利定), a 60-year-old man
 * Akihiko Henmi (逸見 彰彦), a 45-year-old man
 * Haruji Ishioka (石岡 春二), a 45-year-old man
 * Noriaki Kawamura (川村 範昭), a 31-year-old man
 * Kōzō Muramatsu (村松 弘三), a 38-year-old man
 * Masayuki Nasu (那須 雅之), a 59-year-old man
 * Toshihiko Ogura (小倉 利彦), a 42-year-old man
 * Shōtarō Ōki (大木 庄太郎), a 57-year-old man
 * Haruo Shimomura (下村 治生), a 50-year-old man
 * Kazuharu Tsubuki (津吹 一晴), a 41-year-old man
 * Junichi Urushibara (漆原 順一), a 64-year-old man and previously Shinjuku mayor candidate in 1999 and 2002.
 * Haruo Yoshizumi (吉住 栄郎), a 30-year-old man
 * Kenichi Yoshizumi (吉住 健一), a 31-year-old man, later Tokyo Metropolitan Assemblyman and mayor of Shinjuku

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)
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 * style="text-align:right;" | 9
 * style="text-align:left;" |Japanese Communist Party (日本共産党, Nihon Kyōsan-tō)
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 * style="text-align:right;" | 9
 * style="text-align:left;" |Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (自由民主党, Jiyū Minshutō)
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 * style="text-align:right;" | 8
 * style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Party of Japan (民主党, Minshutō)
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 * style="text-align:right;" | 3
 * style="text-align:left;" | New Socialist Party
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 * style="text-align:right;" | 1
 * style="text-align:left;" | Independents
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 * 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
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 * 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
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 * style="text-align:left;" colspan=4 |Source: Official results
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