10 Facts About Nobuyuki Baba

Nobuyuki Baba is a Japanese politician who has been the leader of the Japan Innovation Party since 27 August 2022.

Nobuyuki Baba is a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet, currently for the Osaka 17th district.

Nobuyuki Baba served as a member of the Sakai City Council until 2012.

Nobuyuki Baba was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party for a long time when he was a city councilor, but left the party in 2010 to join the formation of the Osaka Restoration Association, and has served as vice president of the party since 2011.

In 2012, Nobuyuki Baba resigned as a member of the Sakai City Council.

In September 2014, Nobuyuki Baba participated in the formation of the Japan Innovation Party through the merger of the Unity Party and the Japan Restoration Party, and was reelected in the 2014 general election for the House of Representatives in Osaka's 17th district.

Nobuyuki Baba was elected for the third time in the 2017 general election for the House of Representatives; he was elected for the fourth time in the 2021 general election for the House of Representatives.

On 30 November 2021, Nobuyuki Baba was appointed co-leader and the leader of parliamentary delegate of Nippon Ishin no Kai.

In July 2022, Ichiro Matsui, then leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai, announced his resignation; on 2 August Nobuyuki Baba announced his candidacy for party representative following Matsui's resignation; on 27 August Nobuyuki Baba received 8,527 of the 10,825 valid votes cast and became the party's new leader that same day.

Nobuyuki Baba stepped down in the wake of the party's poor showing in the 2024 Japanese general election on 27 October and was replaced by Osaka Prefecture governor Hirofumi Yoshimura on 1 December.