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).
Background 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
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
Candidates Number of candidates by party affiliation 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
Results
City Wide Results Party 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-by Results WARDOsaka IshinKomeitoLDPJCPInd.Kita WardTakayama MikaYamamoto TomokoMaeda KazuhikoKondo DaiFukushima WardHirota KazumiOta KatsukiChuo WardNogami RanSuzuki RieShionaka IsseiMinato WardFujita AkiraNishi NorihitoTennoji WardKaneko EmiSudo ShotaNishi Yodogawa WardYamada HajimeSasaki TetsuoYamada KanaHigashi Yodogawa WardHashimoto MakotoMori KeigoIshikawa HironoriMasumoto SaoriIwaiki TakayoIkuno WardKinoshita MakotoYamada MasakazuTake NaokiHaraguchi YusukeJoto WardBaba NoriyukiAkashi NaokiYamanaka TomokoHonda RieWashimi ShinichiAbeno WardUmezono ShuKinoshita YoshinobuTani MasayoshiSumiyoshi WardIto AmiNakata KoichiroInoue HiroshiKubota RyoUeda TomotakaHirano WardSugimura KotaroNagai HiroyukiTanaka HirokiMatsuda MasatoshiNagata NorikoYoshimi MisakoMiyakojima WardOkada TakatomoAraki HajimeOhnishi SeiichiKonohana WardTakechi HiroyukiImada NobuyukiNishi WardNishi TakanobuNagai KeisukeAzuma TakayukiTaisho WardIzumo TeruhideKoyama MitsumasaNaniwa WardTakeshita RyuMoriyama YoshihisaYodogawa WardImamura NaotoSugita TadahiroNan TakafumiSataka RihoSakai HajimeHigashinari WardOkazaki FutoshiTsukasa TakashiKondo MiwaAsahi WardMiyawaki NozomiNishizaki TeruakiFukuda TakehiroTsurumi WardKuroda MarikoTsuchioka YasuoOhashi KazutakaSuminoe WardSasaki RieKishimoto SakaeMatsuzaki KouKatayama IppeiHigashi Sumiyoshi WardTakami RyoTsuji YoshitakaFuchigami HiromiTanabe NobuhiroNishinari WardTsuji JunkoYamaguchi SatoruFujio Hirokazu
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