# 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).

## 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 |