Osaka 17th district

Osaka 17th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Osaka Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Osaka
Proportional District	Kinki
Electorate	329,205 (2022)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	1
Party	Ishin
Representative	Nobuyuki Baba
Created from	Osaka's 5th "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	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.