This article presents detail of the results in the 2005 Japan general election, breaking down results by block district. The 11 block districts elected 180 members by proportional representation (allocated to party lists in each block by the D'Hondt method), and 300 members were elected from single-member districts distributed among the 47 prefectures. Five parties qualified to submit lists in each of the block districts. These were the New Kōmeitō Party, the Democratic Party of Japan, the Japan Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Social Democratic Party. In addition, the People's New Party, the New Party Japan, and Shintō Daichi submitted lists in some blocks but not others, while many independents competed in the single member districts with members of all eight of these parties. In each table, the second column shows the number of the seats the party won in a single-member district, the third does that in proportional representation along with the number of votes and the percentage, and the fourth does the total numbers of the seats for the party, with the change from the previous election. Party names are abbreviated as follows: LDP - Liberal Democratic Party DPJ - Democratic Party of Japan Kōmeitō - New Kōmeitō Party JCP - Japan Communist Party SDP - Social Democratic Party NPJ - New Party Japan PNP - People's New Party National summary 1 These parties submitted party lists only in selected districts, which should be considered when examining their share of the nationwide vote. The source is at Asahi Shimbun. Hokkaidō Block Hokkaidō was the only region where the DPJ outperformed the LDP, gaining one single member district from the LDP while losing a proportional seat to Shintō Daichi (New Party Great Earth), a new political organization. Shintō Daichi, which competed only in Hokkaidō and only in the proportional constituency, was established by former LDP power broker Muneo Suzuki, who resigned during a bribery scandal that resulted in a prison sentence for him. Suzuki's local popularity allowed Shinto Daichi to come in third, electing him as the top member of the proportional list. Tōhoku Block Although the LDP lost some vote to the People's New Party in Tōhoku, it appears to have gained some of that back at the DPJ's expense. While independent LDP rebel Hosei Norota held Akita district #2 against an LDP challenger, the LDP gained two Miyagi seats from the DPJ in the