Ōsaka 12th district (大阪12区 Ōsaka jūni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the

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, the lower house of the

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of Japan. It is located in North-eastern

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and covers the cities of

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, Daitō and

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. As of September 2012, 342,226 voters were registered district, giving its voters slightly above average vote weight. The most recent representative from the district was LDP's

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(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 had first won the seat in the "postal privatization" election of 2005. The first incumbent was

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who had first been elected to the House of Representatives in 1993 in the 7th district for the

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. 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, 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 only finished third behind Kitagawa and

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's Ryōma Ishii. Kitagawa died mid-term on 26 December 2018, 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

Recent election results

References

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