Osaka 19th district

Ōsaka 19th district (大阪府第19区, Ōsaka-fu dai-jūkyū-ku or simply 大阪19区, Ōsaka-jūkyū-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in southern Osaka and consists of the cities of Kaizuka, Izumisano, Sennan, Hannan and the towns of Kumatori, Tajiri and Misaki in the former county of Sennan. As of September 2012, 307,237 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of the 1990s, the area had formed part of the five-member Osaka 5th district.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Kenshirō Matsunami	NFP	1996–2000	Joined the Liberal Party after the dissolution of the NFP, then the breakaway Conservative Party in 2000
Kenshirō Matsunami	CP	2000–2003	Joined the New Conservative Party in 2002, merged into the Liberal Democratic Party in 2003
Takashi Nagayasu	DPJ	2003–2012
Hodaka Maruyama	JRP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JRP (YP)	Hodaka Maruyama	65,158	38.4
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Tomu Tanigawa	50,242	29.6
	DPJ (PNP)	Takashi Nagayasu	42,554	25.1
	JCP	Sōtarō Tanoue	9,606	5.7
	HRP	Takahisa Toyoda	1,957	1.2

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (SDP, PNP)	Takashi Nagayasu	110,313.770	55.6
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Kenshirō Matsunami	70,879.000	35.7
	JCP	Yutaka Wake	14,735.230	7.4
	HRP	Takahisa Toyoda	2,487.000	1.3
Turnout			203058	66.17

Note: The decimal votes (anbunhyō, "proportional fractional votes") stem from the fact that in this case the given names Takashi and Yutaka are the reading of the same Chinese character 豊, and some voters apparently voted for 豊 without specifying a family name.

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Takashi Nagayasu	91,918.723	48.3
	LDP	Kenshirō Matsunami (elected by PR)	82,437.000	43.3
	JCP	Yutaka Wake	15,855.275	8.3
Turnout			197,666	64.95

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Takashi Nagayasu	75,369	47.2
	NCP	Kenshirō Matsunami	42,284	26.5
	Independent	Yoshihiro Yasuda	27,043	16.9
	JCP	Yutaka Wake	14,962	9.4
Turnout			166,551	55.14

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CP	Kenshirō Matsunami	81,641	53.1
	DPJ	Toshitaka Ishida	46,911	30.5
	JCP	Takashi Nishiyama	23,322	15.2
	Independent	Yasuo Yamaguchi	1,845	1.2

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NFP	Kenshirō Matsunami	73,018	48.4
	LDP	Hisakazu Ikejiri	53,906	35.7
	JCP	Chizuru Harada	20,297	13.5
	LL	Shōta Yamamoto	3,676	2.4
Turnout			155,257	55.31

References

↑ 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
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　大阪. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-06.
↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪19区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪19区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪19区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
↑ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪19区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
↑ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪19区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-08-30.

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 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

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 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

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 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 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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