Osaka 16th district

Osaka 16th district
Osaka 16th district
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of the Osaka Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Osaka
Proportional District	Kinki
Electorate	325,202
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Ishin
Representative	Masaki Kuroda [ja]
Municipalities	Higashi-ku, Kita-ku, and Sakai-ku of Sakai city.

PrefectureOsaka

Proportional DistrictKinki

Electorate325,202^[1]

Created1994

Osaka 16th district (大阪府第16区, Osaka-fu dai-ju-rokku or simply 大阪16区, Osaka-ju-Roku ) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Osaka Prefecture.

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Election	Representative
1996^[6]	Kazuo Kitagawa	NFP
2000^[7]		Komeito
2003^[8]
2005^[9]
2009^[10]	Hiroyuki Moriyama	Democratic
2012^[11]	Kazuo Kitagawa	Komeito
2014^[12]
2017^[13]
2021^[14]
2024^[15]	Masaki Kuroda [ja]	Ishin
2026	Masaki Kuroda [ja]	Ishin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ishin	Masaki Kuroda	73,063	41.2	3.95
	Centrist Reform	Hiroyuki Moriyama	47,844	27.0	3.0
	LDP	Haruhisa Hada	36,006	20.3
	Sanseitō	Wakako Ikegami	20,249	11.4
Registered electors			324,169
Turnout				56.13	2.06
	Ishin hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ishin	Masaki Kuroda	63,288	37.29	*New*
	Komeito	Kanae Yamamoto	55,474	32.69	−18.12
	CDP	Hiroyuki Moriyama (elected in Kinki PR block)	50,943	30.02	−13.59
Majority			7,814	4.60
Registered electors			324,209
Turnout				54.07	1.43
	Ishin gain from Komeito

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuo Kitagawa	84,563	50.81	−3.23
	CDP	Hiroyuki Moriyama (Won PR seat)	72,571	43.61	New
	Anti-NHK	Kyoko Nishiwaki	9,288	5.58	New
Majority			11,992	7.20
Registered electors			326,278
Turnout				55.50	8.75
	Komeito hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuo Kitagawa	77,335	54.04
	CDP	Hiroyuki Moriyama (Won PR seat)	65,780	45.96	New
Majority			11,555	8.08
Registered electors			325,021
Turnout				46.75	4.41
	Komeito hold

Osaka 16th district

Since 2013

2002 - 2013

1994 - 2002

List of representatives

Election results

2026

2024

2021

2017

2014

2012

2009

2005

2003

2000

1996

References

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Osaka 16th district
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of the Osaka Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Osaka
Proportional District	Kinki
Electorate	325,202^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Ishin
Representative	Masaki Kuroda [ja]
Municipalities	Higashi-ku, Kita-ku, and Sakai-ku of Sakai city.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuo Kitagawa	66,673	43.19
	Democratic	Hiroyuki Moriyama	38,331	24.83
	Future Generations	Shingo Nishimura	26,567	17.21	New
	JCP	Shuichi Masu	22,809	14.77
Majority			28,342	18.36
Registered electors			316,965
Turnout				51.16	6.71
	Komeito hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuo Kitagawa	86,464	50.81
	Democratic	Hiroyuki Moriyama	42,328	24.88
	JCP	Tsutomu Okai	23,652	13.90
	21st Century Japan Restoration Party	Masaru Nakamura	17,711	10.41	New
Majority			44,136	25.93
Registered electors
Turnout				57.87
	Komeito gain from Democratic

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Hiroyuki Moriyama	100,548	48.05
	Komeito	Kazuo Kitagawa	84,883	40.56
	JCP	Shizuki Kishigami	19,379	9.26
	Happiness Realization	Yoshimori Nakagawa	4,459	2.13	New
Majority			15,665	7.49
Registered electors
Turnout
	Democratic gain from Komeito

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Komeito	Kazuo Kitagawa	99,919	51.46
	Democratic	Yoshikazu Tarui	70,048	36.07
	JCP	Shizuki Kishigami	24,212	12.47
Majority			29,871	15.39
Registered electors
Turnout
	Komeito hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuo Kitagawa	74,718	46.12
	Democratic	Yoshikazu Tarui (Won PR seat)	63,867	39.42	New
	JCP	Taisuke Sugano	23,434	14.46
Majority			10,851	6.70
Registered electors
Turnout
	Komeito hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Kazuo Kitagawa	64,150	39.11	*New*
	Independent	Taizo Masago	51,055	31.13	New
	JCP	Taisuke Sugano	48,815	29.76
Majority			13,095	7.98
Registered electors
Turnout
	Komeito hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Kazuo Kitagawa	61,084	38.29	*New*
	LDP	Taizo Masago	41,787	26.20	New
	JCP	Shizuki Kishigami	33,153	20.78	New
	Democratic	Masanobu Nishino	23,489	14.73	New
Majority			19,297	12.09
Registered electors
Turnout
	New Frontier win (new seat)

v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Eisuke Mori, Chiba 11th Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Keiichi Ishii, Northern Kanto PR
Hokkaidō	Block 8 seats Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku	Block 12 seats Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō	Block 19 seats Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō	Block 23 seats Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo	Block 19 seats Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu	Block 10 seats Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai	Block 21 seats Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki	Block 28 seats Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku	Block 10 seats Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku	Block 6 seats Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū	Block 20 seats Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Former districts	Abolished in 2002 Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4 Abolished in 2013 Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3 Abolished in 2017 Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5 Abolished in 2022 Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4