2019 Osaka 12th district by-election

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Osaka 12th district
Turnout	47.00%
Nominee Fumitake Fujita Shinpei Kitagawa Shinji Tarutoko Party Ishin LDP Independent Popular vote 60,341 47,025 35,358 Percentage 38.49% 30.00% 22.56%
Representative before election Tomokatsu Kitagawa LDP Elected Representative Fumitake Fujita Ishin

A by-election for the Osaka 12th district in the Japanese House of Representatives was held on 21 April 2019.^[1] The by-election was called following the death of the incumbent member Tomokatsu Kitagawa, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), from peritonitis on 26 December 2018. Kitagawa had served the district almost continuously since 2005 (except between 2009–12) and defended the seat by a narrow 4.4% margin in the 2017 election, making the seat a potential battleground. The by-election was held on the same day with the second round of the unified local elections and another House by-election for the Okinawa 3rd district.

The by-election was won by Nippon Ishin no Kai's Fujita Fumitake, marking a gain for the party.^[2]

• Shinji Tarutoko (Independent), former Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications and representative for the district.^[3]
• Shinpei Kitagawa (LDP), event organiser and nephew of Tomokatsu Kitagawa.^[3]
• Fumitake Fujita (Ishin), company president.^[3]
• Takeshi Miyamoto (Independent - JCP), former member of the House of Representatives.^[4]

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