Osaka 10th district
Ōsaka 10th district (大阪府第10区, Ōsaka-fu daijikku or 大阪10区, Ōsaka-jikku) is a single-member electoral district of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in North-eastern Osaka and consists of Takatsuki city and Shimamoto town, the only remaining municipality of Mishima county. As of September 2012, 315,999 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]
The current Representative for Osaka 10th district is former Liberal Democrat Kenta Matsunami. In 2012, he ran for the Japan Restoration Party of former Osaka governor Tōru Hashimoto that won twelve district seats in the prefecture. The previous incumbent, Democrat Kiyomi Tsujimoto, had been elected for the Social Democratic Party in 2009, but left in 2010 after disagreeing with her party's departure from the Democrat-led ruling coalition.
Before the electoral reform of the 1990s, the area had been part of the five-member Osaka 3rd district.
List of Representatives
Representative |
Party |
Dates |
Notes |
Kazuo Ishigaki |
| NFP |
1996–2000 |
A former professional baseball player and coach, Takatsuki municipal and Osaka prefectural assemblyman for Kōmeitō Joined the Liberal Party after the dissolution of the NFP, then returned to re-established/"New" Kōmeitō |
Kiyomi Tsujimoto |
| SDP |
2000–2002 |
Resigned over a scandal involving public funding for non-existent secretaries |
Kenta Matsunami |
| LDP |
2002–2003 |
Failed re-election in the Kinki PR block |
Miyoko Hida |
| DPJ |
2003–2005 |
Failed re-election in the Kinki PR block |
Kenta Matsunami |
| LDP |
2005–2009 |
Re-elected in the Kinki PR block |
Kiyomi Tsujimoto |
| SDP |
2009–2012 |
Left SDP and became independent member of the DPJ parliamentary group in 2010, joined DPJ in 2011[2][3] Re-elected in the Kinki PR block |
Kenta Matsunami |
| JRP |
2012– |
Incumbent |
Election results
2005[6] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
LDP |
Kenta Matsunami |
83,607 |
38.4 |
|
|
SDP |
Kiyomi Tsujimoto (elected by PR) |
68,614 |
31.5 |
|
|
DPJ |
Miyoko Hida |
52,703 |
24.2 |
|
|
JCP |
Kazuhito Asanuma |
12,703 |
5.8 |
|
Turnout |
220,810 |
70.54 |
|
2003[7] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
DPJ |
Miyoko Hida |
83,077 |
47.1 |
|
|
LDP |
Kenta Matsunami |
68,646 |
38.9 |
|
|
JCP |
Etsuko Sugano |
22,976 |
13.0 |
|
|
Independent |
Mamoru Shinbaru |
1,600 |
0.9 |
|
Turnout |
180,710 |
57.99 |
|
October 27, 2002 by-election[8] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
LDP |
Kenta Matsunami |
43,252 |
34.2 |
|
|
Independent |
Yasuto Yoshida |
36,328 |
28.8 |
|
|
JCP |
Etsuko Sugano |
23,795 |
18.8 |
|
|
DPJ |
Toshio Emura |
15,876 |
12.6 |
|
|
Koizumi no Kai |
Takahiro Kitaoka |
2,722 |
2.2 |
|
|
Independent |
Yōichi Mizutani |
2,453 |
0.9 |
|
|
Independent |
Hitoshi Takaya |
1,516 |
1.2 |
|
|
Independent |
Toshifumi Nishimura |
404 |
0.3 |
|
Turnout |
129,154 |
41.45 |
|
2000[9] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
SDP |
Kiyomi Tsujimoto |
55,839 |
29.7 |
|
|
Kōmeitō |
Kazuo Ishigaki |
55,108 |
29.3 |
|
|
DPJ |
Miyoko Hida (elected by PR) |
52,598 |
28.0 |
|
|
JCP |
Manabu Ōmine |
21,957 |
11.7 |
|
|
Independent |
Hitoshi Takaya |
2,489 |
1.3 |
|
1996[10] |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
NFP |
Kazuo Ishigaki |
53,623 |
31.4 |
|
|
LDP |
Shōnosuke Hayashi |
45,655 |
26.7 |
|
|
DPJ |
Miyoko Hida (elected by PR) |
33,802 |
19.8 |
|
|
JCP |
Katsunori Nagao |
29,022 |
17.0 |
|
|
Independent |
Fukuko Ozawa |
6,368 |
3.7 |
|
|
LL |
Takashi Onoda |
2,484 |
1.5 |
|
Turnout |
175,029 |
57.02 |
|
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