Osaka 7th district

Ōsaka 7th district (大阪府第7区, Osaka-fu dai-nana-ku or simply 大阪7区, Ōsaka-nana-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in Northern central Ōsaka and covers the cities of Suita and Settsu. As of 2012, 352,998 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the introduction of parallel voting and single-member districts, the area had been part of the five-member Ōsaka 3rd district.

Liberal Democrat Naomi Tokashiki (Nukaga faction) who won one of only three seats for the Liberal Democratic Party in Osaka in 2012. The previous incumbent, Osamu Fujimura, Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Noda cabinet, only ranked third – in 2012, the Democratic Party was reduced to third or even fourth party in many of Osaka's electoral districts, and nationwide seven sitting members of the Noda cabinet lost their seat in the House of Representatives. Fujimura had represented the pre-reform 3rd district for the Japan New Party since 1993 and won the new 7th district in 1996. He held onto the seat until the landslide election of 2005 when Tokashiki, then a newcomer in national politics, beat him for the first time. Fujimura regained his district seat in 2009.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Osamu Fujimura	NFP	1996–2005	Joined Kokumin no Koe ("Voice of the People"; Engrish ?)→Minseitō ("Democratic Party"; Good Governance Party)→Minshutō ("Democratic Party"; Democratic Party of Japan)
Osamu Fujimura	DPJ	1996–2005	Reelected in the Kinki PR block ("Loss ratio": 85.9%)
Naomi Tokashiki	LDP	2005–2009	Failed reelection in the Kinki PR block ("Loss ratio": 63.4%)
Osamu Fujimura	DPJ	2009–2012	Failed reelection in the Kinki PR block ("Loss ratio": 64.7%)
Naomi Tokashiki	LDP	2012–2021
Takemitsu Okushita	Ishin	2021–

Election results

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ishin	Takemitsu Okushita	102,486	45.3	9.9
	LDP	Naomi Tokashiki	71,592	31.7	11.9
	CDP	Ryōsuke Nogi	24,952	11.0
	JCP	Tatsuma Kawasoe	20,083	8.9	12.1
	Reiwa	Hiroki Nishikawa	6,927	3,1
Turnout				60.02	8.21
	Ishin gain from LDP

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Naomi Tokashiki	82,337	43.6	0.4
	Ishin	Takemitsu Okushita	66,780	35.4	0.7
	JCP	Kumiko Muraguchi	39,602	21.0	0.3
Turnout				51.80	2.50
	LDP hold

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Naomi Tokashiki	81,109	43.2	9.9
	Ishin	Sayuri Uenishi (won PR seat)	67,719	36.1	6.4
	JCP	Kumiko Muraguchi	38,928	20.7	8.4
Turnout				54.30
	LDP hold

2012^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP – NK	Naomi Tokashiki	70,361	33.3
JRP – YP	Sayuri Uenishi (won PR seat)	62,856	29.7
DPJ – PNP	Osamu Fujimura	45,531	21.5
JCP	Tae Ishikawa	21,569	10.2
TPJ – NPD	Yoshihiko Watanabe	10,989	5.2

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ (SDP, PNP support)	Osamu Fujimura	124,982	52.9
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Naomi Tokashiki	79,289	33.5
	JCP	Masao Komai	29,030	12.3
	HRP	Yoshitaka Mizunuma	3,063	1.3
Turnout			241,669	69.19

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Naomi Tokashiki	98,151	43.4
	DPJ	Osamu Fujimura (elected by PR)	84,373	37.3
	JCP	Shigeru Ariki	27,573	12.2
	Independent	Katsuya Yamaguchi	16,256	7.2
Turnout			233,740	67.19

2003^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Osamu Fujimura	72,643	39.2
	LDP	Issei Inoue	55,234	29.8
	JCP	Sachiko Fujii	28,710	15.5
	"Assembly of Independents"	Shirō Arisawa	19,949	10.8
	Independent	Yoshinobu Sakamoto	8,701	4.7
Turnout			192,098	55.48

2000^[9]
	Candidate	Votes	%
DPJ	Osamu Fujimura	63,455	34.1
CP	Issei Inoue	52,210	28.1
JCP	Sachiko Fujii	41,727	22.4
Independent	Shirō Arisawa	28,712	15.4

1996^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	NFP	Osamu Fujimura	53,968	31.7
	LDP	Shirō Arisawa	40,572	23.8
	JCP	Sachiko Fujii	39,503	23.2
	DPJ	Masahiro Nakatsukasa	36,439	21.4
Turnout			176,371	53.74

References

^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): ��成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数
^ 小選挙区大阪７区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
^ 小選挙区大阪７区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
^ 2014年12月14日(日) 投票小選挙区大阪７区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区大阪. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-02.
^ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2011-11-15. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
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[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): ��成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数

[2] 小選挙区大阪７区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 21 June 2023.

[3] 小選挙区大阪７区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 21 June 2023.

[4] 2014年12月14日(日) 投票小選挙区大阪７区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 21 June 2023.

[5] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区大阪. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-02.

[6] 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2011-11-15. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[7] 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2011-11-15. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[8] 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2011-11-15. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[9] 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2011-11-15. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[10] 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2011-11-15. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

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v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4