It is located in northeastern Osaka and consists of Takatsuki city and Shimamoto town, the only remaining municipality of Mishima county.

[1] A former representative for the district was Kiyomi Tsujimoto, policy chief of the Constitutional Democratic Party.

She left in 2010 after disagreeing with her party's departure from the Democrat-led ruling coalition.

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.

[2] Before the electoral reform of the 1990s, the area had been part of the five-member Osaka 3rd district.