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Osaka 12th district

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Ōsaka 12th district (大阪12区 Ōsaka jūni-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 North-eastern Osaka and covers the cities of Neyagawa, Daitō and Shijōnawate. As of September 2012, 342,226 voters were registered in this district, giving its voters a slight above average vote weight. [1]

The most recent representative from this district was LDP's Tomokatsu Kitagawa, the son of pre-reform three-member 7th district LDP Representative Ishimatsu Kitagawa. In 2012, he was one of only three Liberal Democrats in Osaka to win a district seat. He first won the seat in the "postal privatization" election of 2005. The first incumbent was Democrat Shinji Tarutoko who was elected to the House of Representatives in 1993 in the 7th district for the Japan New Party. After the electoral reform, he won the new single-member 12th district three times in a row before losing it to Kitagawa in 2005. In the landslide Democratic victory of 2009, Tarutoko regained the 12th district by a solid margin. He founded his own faction (Tarutoko group, officially: Seizankai) in 2010. Tarutoko ran for the DPJ presidency in 2010, became DPJ vice-secretary-general in 2011 and a minister of state in the Noda Cabinet in 2012. In 2012, he finished third behind Kitagawa and Your Party's Ryōma Ishii. Kitagawa died mid-term on 26 December 2018, [2] triggering a by-election in April 2019. Kitagawa's nephew, Shinpei Kitagawa, ran in 2019 and 2021 but lost both times to Ishin candidate Fumitake Fujita.

List of representatives

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Representative Party Dates Notes
Shinji Tarutoko NFP 1996–2000 Joined Morihiro Hosokawa's From Five in the dissolution of the NFP, merged into Minseitō in 1998
DPJ 2000–2005 Failed re-election in the Kinki PR block
Tomokatsu Kitagawa LDP 2005–2009 Failed re-election in the Kinki PR block
Shinji Tarutoko DPJ 2009–2012 Failed re-election in the Kinki PR block
Tomokatsu Kitagawa LDP 2012–2018 Died in office
Vacant (December 2018–April 2019)
Fumitake Fujita Ishin 2019 –

Recent election results

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2021[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ishin Fumitake Fujita 94,003 51.2 Increase12.7
Liberal Democratic Shinpei Kitagawa 59,304 32.3 Increase2.3
Constitutional Democratic Yūko Utsunomiya 17,730 9.7
Communist Masanori Matsuo 12,614 6.9
Turnout 55.0 Increase8.0
2019 Osaka 12th district by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ishin Fumitake Fujita 60,341 38.5 Decrease2.1
Liberal Democratic Shinpei Kitagawa 47,025 30.0 Decrease15.0
Independent Shinji Tarutoko 35,358 22.6
Independent Takeshi Miyamoto 14,027 8.9
Turnout 47.00 Decrease0.50
2017[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Tomokatsu Kitagawa 71,614 45.0 Increase5.0
Ishin Fumitake Fujita 64,530 40.6
Communist Masanori Matsuo 22,858 14.4 Increase3.8
Turnout 47.5 Decrease4.4
2014[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Tomokatsu Kitagawa 68,817 40.0 Increase0.1
Democratic Shinji Tarutoko 43,265 25.2
Innovation Souichirō Katada 41,649 24.2
Communist Yoshiko Yoshii 18,257 10.6 Increase1.8
Turnout 51.9
2012[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDPKōmeitō Tomokatsu Kitagawa 76,972 39.9 Increase3.8
YPJRP Ryōma Ishii 49,750 25.8 new
DPJPNP Shinji Tarutoko 49,153 25.5 −27.7
JCP Yoshiko Yoshii 49,153 8.8 new
2009[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJPNP Shinji Tarutoko 119,084 53.2
LDPKōmeitō Tomokatsu Kitagawa 80,847 36.1
JCP Hatsue Shigeta 19,053 8.5
HRP Mami Miyazaki 4,894 2.2
Turnout 227,536 66.61
2005[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Tomokatsu Kitagawa 108,903 49.6
DPJ Shinji Tarutoko 87,091 39.7
JCP Kumiko Ōta 23,595 10.7
2003[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Shinji Tarutoko 82,190 44.6
LDP Tomokatsu Kitagawa (elected by PR)[10] 81,270 44.1
JCP Yōichi Nishimori 21,023 11.4
Turnout 189,056 54.81

References

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  1. ^ Ministry of general affairs: 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. ^ "北川知克・衆院議員が死去、67歳 元環境副大臣" (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  3. ^ 開票速報 小選挙区:大阪 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  4. ^ 小選挙区】大阪府12区 2017総選挙 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  5. ^ 小選挙区】大阪府12区 2014総選挙 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  6. ^ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 大阪. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-02.
  7. ^ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪12区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp., originally JANJAN. Retrieved 2012-11-02. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  8. ^ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪12区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp., originally JANJAN. Retrieved 2012-11-02. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  9. ^ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 大阪12区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp., originally JANJAN. Retrieved 2012-11-02. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  10. ^ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 近畿比例区 - 自民. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp., originally JANJAN. Retrieved 2012-11-02. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)