Osaka 18th district

Osaka 18th district
Osaka 18th district
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of the Osaka Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Osaka
Proportional District	Kinki
Electorate	426,329
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Ishin
Representative	Takashi Endo
Municipalities	Izumi, Izumiōtsu, Kishiwada, Takaishi, and Senboku District.

PrefectureOsaka

Proportional DistrictKinki

Electorate426,329^[1]

Created1994

Osaka 18th district (大阪府第18区, Osaka-fu dai-ju-hakku or simply 大阪18区, Osaka-ju-hakku ) 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^[4]	Taro Nakayama	LDP
2000^[5]
2003^[6]
2005^[7]
2009^[8]	Osamu Nakagawa	Democratic
		PLF
		Tomorrow
2012^[9]	Takashi Endo	Restoration
2014^[10]		Innovation
2017^[11]		Ishin
2021^[12]
2024^[13]
2026

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ishin	Takashi Endo	121,948	58.4	7.2
	LDP	Takatsugu Uchida	58,889	28.2	4.4
	JCP	Hideki Baba	27,906	13.4	0.8
Registered electors			424,263
Turnout				52.90	5.21
	Ishin hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ishin	Takashi Endo	99,973	51.24
	LDP	Takatsugu Uchida	46,366	23.77
	JCP	Hideki Baba	27,675	14.19
	Sanseitō	Yoshinori Matsuoka	21,086	10.81	New
Majority			53,607	27.47
Registered electors			427,656
Turnout				47.69	5.22
	Ishin hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ishin	Takashi Endo	118,421	52.97
	LDP	Noboru Kamitani	61,597	27.55
	CDP	Yasushi Kawato	24,490	10.95	New
	JCP	Ryosuke Mochizuki	19,075	8.53
Majority			56,824	25.42
Registered electors			434,309
Turnout				52.91	6.64
	Ishin hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ishin	Takashi Endo	87,040	44.32	*New*
	LDP	Noboru Kamitani (Won PR seat)	80,198	40.83
	JCP	Tadashige Yano	29,164	14.85
Majority			6,842	3.49
Registered electors			437,120
Turnout				46.27	2.43
	Ishin hold

Osaka 18th district

Since 1994

List of representatives

Election results

2026

2024

2021

2017

2014

2012

2009

2005

2003

2000

1996

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Osaka 18th district
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of the Osaka Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Osaka
Proportional District	Kinki
Electorate	426,329^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Ishin
Representative	Takashi Endo
Municipalities	Izumi, Izumiōtsu, Kishiwada, Takaishi, and Senboku District.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Innovation	Takashi Endo	88,638	44.24	*New*
	LDP	Noboru Kamitani (Won PR seat)	82,460	41.15
	JCP	Tadashige Yano	29,275	14.61
Majority			6,178	3.09
Registered electors			425,818
Turnout				48.70	7.24
	Innovation hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Restoration	Takashi Endo	100,312	43.68	*New*
	LDP	Noboru Kamitani	83,388	36.31
	Tomorrow	Osamu Nakagawa	24,467	10.65	New
	JCP	Tadashige Yano	21,500	9.36
Majority			16,924	7.37
Registered electors			425,921
Turnout				55.94	9.55
	Restoration gain from Tomorrow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Osamu Nakagawa	132,399	48.60
	LDP	Taro Nakayama	104,699	38.43
	JCP	Yasuki Ōtsuka	27,440	10.07
	Happiness Realization	Yutaka Nishikawa	7,915	2.91	New
Majority			27,700	10.17
Registered electors			424,742
Turnout				65.49	1.30
	Democratic gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Taro Nakayama	139,616	52.90
	Democratic	Osamu Nakagawa	93,402	35.39
	JCP	Yasuki Ōtsuka	30,912	11.71
Majority			46,214	17.51
Registered electors			420,929
Turnout				64.19	7.94
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Taro Nakayama	108,996	47.94
	Democratic	Osamu Nakagawa (Won PR seat)	89,930	39.56
	JCP	Yasuki Ōtsuka	28,417	12.50
Majority			19,066	8.38
Registered electors			417,574
Turnout				56.25
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Taro Nakayama	103,402	47.47
	Democratic	Makoto Kita	64,259	29.50	New
	JCP	Nobuo Kokubo	42,750	19.63
	Liberal League	Shinobu Okitsu	7,402	3.40
Majority			39,143	17.97
Registered electors
Turnout
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Taro Nakayama	88,147	41.82	*New*
	New Frontier	Yasuto Ōnishi	78,822	37.39	New
	JCP	Nobuo Kokubo	38,932	18.47	New
	Liberal League	Tatsuya Matsumoto	4,892	2.32	New
Majority			9,325	4.43
Registered electors
Turnout
	LDP 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