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 northeastern Osaka and consists of Takatsuki city and the town of Shimamoto. As of 2016, 321,805 eligible voters were registered in the district.Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC):
A former representative for the district was Kiyomi Tsujimoto, policy chief of the Constitutional Democratic Party. Tsujimoto had originally been elected in 2000 and 2009 for the Social Democratic Party. She left in 2010 after disagreeing with her party's departure from the Democrat-led ruling coalition. Kenta Matsunami is the previous member of the district. In 2012, he ran for the Japan Restoration Party of former Osaka governor and mayor Tōru Hashimoto that won twelve district seats in the prefecture. Tsujimoto failed to gain re-election in 2021.
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 – 1998 A former professional baseball player and coach, Takatsuki municipal and Osaka prefectural assemblyman for KōmeitōJoined the Liberal Party after the dissolution of the NFP, then returned to re-established/"New" Kōmeitō LP 1998 – 2000 NKP 2000 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 – 2010 Left SDP and became independent member of the DPJ parliamentary group in 2010. Joined DPJ in 2011The Japan Times, July 28, 2010: Tsujimoto quits SDP, says party has lost its wayKiyomi Tsujimoto official website: 辻元清美プロフィール Re-elected in the Kinki PR block Ind 2010 – 2011 DPJ 2011 – 2012 Kenta Matsunami JRP 2012 – 2014 Kiyomi Tsujimoto DPJ 2014 – 2016 Failed re-election in the Kinki PR block DP 2016 – 2017 CDP 2017 – 2021 Ishin 2021 – Former member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly
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