'''Osaka 7th district''' (大阪府第7区, ''Osaka-fu dai-nana-ku'', or simply 大阪7区, ''Osaka-nana-ku'') is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in north-central Osaka Prefecture and covers the cities of Suita and Settsu. In 2012, the district had 352,998 registered eligible voters.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
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 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"; ?)→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 2012–2021 Takemitsu Okushita Ishin 2021–
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