the current representative for the district is kiyomi tsujimoto, policy chief of the constitutional democratic party. tsujimoto had originally been elected in 2000 and 2009 for the social democratic party. she left in 2010 after disagreeing with her party's departure from the democrat-led ruling coalition. kenta matsunami is the previous member of the district. in 2012, he ran for the japan restoration party of former osaka governor and mayor tōru hashimoto that won twelve district seats in the prefecture.