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Results of 2023 Osaka City Council Election
2023 Osaka City Council election Osaka City Council
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
The 2023 Osaka City Council election was held following the expiration of the council's four-year term on 9 April 2023, marking the first half of the 20th national unified elections . There were 128 candidates running for 81 seats in the city's 24 wards (each Osaka city ward is one electoral district). The political parties contesting the election were: Osaka Ishin , Komeito , Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) , Japan Communist Party (JCP) , Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) , and the Reiwa Shinsengumi (Reiwa) .[ 1]
On 10 February 2023, an ordinance was passed to reduce the number of seats for Nishinari Ward from four to three, and for Minato Wards from three to two[ 2]
Including the governor and assembly race for Osaka Prefecture and the Osaka mayoral election on the same day, this was a "quadruple election" for the citizens of Osaka City.
Election called: 30 March 2023
Elect date: 9 April 2023
Number of council seats: 81
Number of constituencies (wards): 24
Number of candidates: 125
Number of candidates by party affiliation[ 3]
Party
Total
Current Councillors
Past Councillors
New
Osaka Ishin
50
35
0
15
Komeito
19
16
0
3
LDP
19
10
2
7
JCP
16
3
5
8
CDP
1
0
0
1
Reiwa
2
0
0
2
Ind.
18
4
2
12
Totals
125
68
9
48
Party[ 4]
Total
Re-elected
Past
New
Last Election
+/-
Osaka Ishin
46
34
0
12
40
6 up
Komeito
18
16
0
2
18
0
LDP
11
5
1
5
14
3 up
JCP
2
2
0
0
4
2 down
CDP
0
0
0
0
0
0
Reiwa
0
0
0
0
0
0
Ind.
4
4
0
0
4
0
Totals
81
61
1
19
83
WARD[ 4]
Osaka Ishin
Komeito
LDP
JCP
Ind.
Kita Ward
Takayama Mika
Yamamoto Tomoko
Maeda Kazuhiko
Kondo Dai
Fukushima Ward
Hirota Kazumi
Ota Katsuki
Chuo Ward
Nogami Ran
Suzuki Rie
Shionaka Issei
Minato Ward
Fujita Akira
Nishi Norihito
Tennoji Ward
Kaneko Emi
Sudo Shota
Nishi Yodogawa Ward
Yamada Hajime
Sasaki Tetsuo
Yamada Kana
Higashi Yodogawa Ward
Hashimoto Makoto
Mori Keigo
Ishikawa Hironori
Masumoto Saori
Iwaiki Takayo
Ikuno Ward
Kinoshita Makoto
Yamada Masakazu
Take Naoki
Haraguchi Yusuke
Joto Ward
Baba Noriyuki
Akashi Naoki
Yamanaka Tomoko
Honda Rie
Washimi Shinichi
Abeno Ward
Umezono Shu
Kinoshita Yoshinobu
Tani Masayoshi
Sumiyoshi Ward
Ito Ami
Nakata Koichiro
Inoue Hiroshi
Kubota Ryo
Ueda Tomotaka
Hirano Ward
Sugimura Kotaro
Nagai Hiroyuki
Tanaka Hiroki
Matsuda Masatoshi
Nagata Noriko
Yoshimi Misako
Miyakojima Ward
Okada Takatomo
Araki Hajime
Ohnishi Seiichi
Konohana Ward
Takechi Hiroyuki
Imada Nobuyuki
Nishi Ward
Nishi Takanobu
Nagai Keisuke
Azuma Takayuki
Taisho Ward
Izumo Teruhide
Koyama Mitsumasa
Naniwa Ward
Takeshita Ryu
Moriyama Yoshihisa
Yodogawa Ward
Imamura Naoto
Sugita Tadahiro
Nan Takafumi
Sataka Riho
Sakai Hajime
Higashinari Ward
Okazaki Futoshi
Tsukasa Takashi
Kondo Miwa
Asahi Ward
Miyawaki Nozomi
Nishizaki Teruaki
Fukuda Takehiro
Tsurumi Ward
Kuroda Mariko
Tsuchioka Yasuo
Ohashi Kazutaka
Suminoe Ward
Sasaki Rie
Kishimoto Sakae
Matsuzaki Kou
Katayama Ippei
Higashi Sumiyoshi Ward
Takami Ryo
Tsuji Yoshitaka
Fuchigami Hiromi
Tanabe Nobuhiro
Nishinari Ward
Tsuji Junko
Yamaguchi Satoru
Fujio Hirokazu
