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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.
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Tomokatsu Kitagawa was a Japanese politician from the Liberal Democratic Party, and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Neyagawa, Osaka and graduate of Kansai University, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 2000. He became a member in July 2003 as proportional replacement from the LDP list in Kinki for deceased Tōru Okutani, in the November 2003 election he was elected for the first time. He ran for re-election in 2009 and was defeated by Shinji Tarutoko of the Democratic Party. Kitagawa recaptured his seat in the 2012 election and held it until his death from peritonitis on 26 December 2018.
The by-election was won by Nippon Ishin no Kai's Fumitake Fujita, marking a gain for the party. [2]
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Ishin | Fumitake Fujita | 60,341 | 38.5 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Shinpei Kitagawa | 47,025 | 30.0 | ||
Independent | Shinji Tarutoko | 35,358 | 22.6 | ||
Communist | Takeshi Miyamoto | 14,027 | 8.9 | ||
Total votes | 156,751 | ||||
Turnout | 47.00 | -0.50 | |||
Ishin gain from Liberal Democratic | Swing | ||||
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