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 The is the national legislature of Japan. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives (, ''Shūgiin''), and an upper house, the House of Councillors (, '' Sangiin''). Both houses are directly elected under a paralle ...

. 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. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)
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/ref> 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 is a former Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Kyoto, Kyoto and graduate of Showa University and business school at Waseda Un ...

(Nukaga faction) who won one of only three seats for the Liberal Democratic Party in Osaka in 2012. The previous incumbent,

Osamu Fujimura is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan and a former member of the House of Representatives of Japan, House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, Diet (national legislature). Early life and education A native of Osaka, Os ...

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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

Election results

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{{coord missing, Osaka Prefecture House of Representatives (Japan) districts in Osaka Prefecture Constituencies established in 1994 1994 establishments in Japan Suita Settsu, Osaka