| Osaka 17th District | |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Constituency Link: | Osaka 17th district |
| Parl Name: | Japanese House of Representatives |
| Map Size: | 450px |
| District Label: | Prefecture |
| District: | Osaka |
| Region Label: | Proportional District |
| Region: | Kinki |
| Electorate: | 329,205 (2022) |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Members Label: | Representative |
| Members: | Nobuyuki Baba |
| Seats: | 1 |
| Elects Howmany: | 1 |
| Party Label: | Party |
| Party: | Ishin |
| Blank1 Name: | Municipalities |
| Blank1 Info: | Kita-ku, Naka-ku, and Nishi-ku of the Sakai City |
Ōsaka 17th district (大阪府第17区, Ōsaka-fu daijuunanaku or 大阪17区, Ōsaka-juunanaku) is a single-member electoral district of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in western Osaka and consists of Kita-ku, Naka-ku and Nishi-ku of Sakai City. As of 2022, 329,205 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]
The current representative is Nobuyuki Baba, the leader of Ishin, a right-wing populist party.
Before the electoral reform of the 1990s, the area had been part of the five-member Osaka 5th district.
| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shingo Nishimura | bgcolor= | NFP | 1996 – 2000 | ||
| Nobuko Okashita | bgcolor= | LDP | 2000 – 2003 | ||
| Shingo Nishimura | bgcolor= | DPJ | 2003 – 2005 | ||
| Nobuko Okashita | bgcolor= | LDP | 2005 – 2009 | ||
| Megumu Tsuji | bgcolor= | DPJ | 2009 – 2012 | ||
| Nobuyuki Baba | bgcolor= | Restoration | 2012 – 2014 | Former member of the Sakai City Council | |
| bgcolor= | Innovation | 2014 – 2016 | |||
| bgcolor= | Innovation | 2016 – | |||
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