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.

The current Representative for Ōsaka 7th district is 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 Party 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)
DPJ 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– Incumbent

Election results
2012[2]
Party 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[3]
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[4]
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[5]
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[6]
Party 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[7]
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
  1. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成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. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　大阪. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-02.
  3. 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. External link in |work= (help)
  4. 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. External link in |work= (help)
  5. 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. External link in |work= (help)
  6. 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. External link in |work= (help)
  7. 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. External link in |work= (help)

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