Ōsaka 7th district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives

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The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...

 in the national Diet of Japan

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. It is located in Northern central Ōsaka

Osaka Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Kansai region on Honshū, the main island of Japan. The capital is the city of Osaka. It is the center of Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto area.- History :...

 and covers the cities of Suita

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 and Settsu

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. As of 2009, 350,423 eligible voters were registered in the district.

Before the introduction of parallel voting and single-member districts, the area had been part of the five-member Ōsaka 3rd district.

The current Representative for Ōsaka 7th district is Osamu Fujimura

Osamu Fujimura

is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Osaka, Osaka and graduate of Hiroshima University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 as a member of the Japan New Party. He lost in...

, Chief Cabinet Secretary

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 in the Noda cabinet. He had represented the pre-reform 3rd district for the Japan New Party since 1993 and won the new 7th district in 1996 and held onto the seat until the landslide election of 2005 when a newcomer in national politics, Liberal Democrat Naomi Tokashiki

Naomi Tokashiki

was a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Kyoto, Kyoto and graduate of Showa University and business school at Waseda University she was elected for the first time in 2005 after working at Shiseido and...

 (Nukaga faction) beat him. Fujimura regained his district seat in 2009.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Osamu Fujimura Osamu Fujimura is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Osaka, Osaka and graduate of Hiroshima University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 as a member of the Japan New Party. He lost in...		NFP New Frontier Party The was a Japanese political party that existed during the mid-1990s. As a merger of several small parties, the party was ideologically diverse, with its membership ranging from moderate socialists to neoliberals and conservatives...	1996–2005	Joined Kokumin no Koe ("Voice of the People"; Engrish Engrish refers to unusual forms of English language usage by native speakers of some East Asian languages. The term itself relates to Japanese speakers' tendency to inadvertently substitute the English phonemes "R" and "L" for one another, because the Japanese language has one alveolar consonant in place...  ?)→Minseitō ("Democratic Party"; Good Governance Party Good Governance Party The was a Japanese political party which was in existence for a short period in early 1998. It was a centrist, reformist party that merged with other parties in April 1998 to form the Democratic Party of Japan.... )→Minshutō ("Democratic Party"; Democratic Party of Japan Democratic Party of Japan The is a political party in Japan founded in 1998 by the merger of several opposition parties. Its socially liberal platform is generally considered center-left in the Japanese political spectrum... )
		DPJ		Reelected in the Kinki PR block ("Loss ratio" Sekihairitsu The is a method used in the proportional representation constituencies for the Japanese House of Representatives to determine the order of candidates placed on the same list position by their party.... : 85.9%)
Naomi Tokashiki Naomi Tokashiki was a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Kyoto, Kyoto and graduate of Showa University and business school at Waseda University she was elected for the first time in 2005 after working at Shiseido and...		LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election...	2005–2009	Failed reelection in the Kinki PR block ("Loss ratio": 63.4%)
Osamu Fujimura		DPJ	2009–	Incumbent

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