A by-election for the

Osaka 12th district Ōsaka 12th district (大阪12区 Ōsaka jūni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives, the lower house of the Diet of Japan, National Diet of Japan. It is located in North-easter ...

in the

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was held on 21 April 2019. The by-election was called following the death of the incumbent member

Tomokatsu Kitagawa was a Japanese politician from the Liberal Democratic Party, and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Neyagawa, Osaka and graduate of Kansai University, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of ...

, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), from

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on 26 December 2018. Kitagawa had served the district almost continuously since

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(except between 2009–12) and defended the seat by a narrow 4.4% margin in the 2017 election, making the seat a potential battleground. The by-election was held on the same day with the second round of the unified local elections and another House by-election for the Okinawa 3rd district. The by-election was won by

Nippon Ishin no Kai The is a conservative and right-wing populist political party in Japan. Formed as ''Initiatives from Osaka'' in October 2015 from a split in the old Japan Innovation Party, the party became the third-biggest opposition party in the National D ...

's Fumitake Fujita, marking a gain for the party.

Candidates

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), former

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and representative for the district. *Shinpei Kitagawa ( LDP), event organiser and nephew of Tomokatsu Kitagawa. * Fumitake Fujita ( Ishin), company president. *

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), former member of the

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Campaign

Results

Footnotes

References

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