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		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–	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

↑ 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
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.

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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