2023 Osaka City Council election

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).

2023 Osaka City Council election

April 9, 2023

All 81 seats in the Osaka City Council 41 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– One Osaka Hirofumi Yoshimura 46 +6 Komeito Shigeki Sato 18 0 LDP Koichi Munekiyo 11 −3 JCP 2 −2 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Mayor of Osaka before Mayor of Osaka after Ichirō Matsui One Osaka Hideyuki Yokoyama One Osaka

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

WARD	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