Akita 1st district

Map of electoral districts in Akita prefecture

Akita 1st district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in the Tōhoku region of the island of Honshu,[1] in Akita Prefecture. The district contains the entirety of the city of Akita, making it the only district in Tōhoku to entirely contain a single municipality.

As of September 1, 2022, the district was home to 260,836 constituents.[2]

The district is represented by Hiroyuki Togashi of the Liberal Democratic Party.[3]

List of representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Takao Satō NFP 1996 – 2000
Koji Futada LDP 2000 – 2003
Manabu Terata DPJ 2003 – 2012
Hiroyuki Togashi LDP 2012 -

Election results

2024[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hiroyuki Togashi 60,387 41.7 Decrease10.2
CDP Manabu Terata (won a seat in PR block) 59,515 41.1 Decrease7.0
Ishin Daigo Matsuura 17,865 12.4
JCP Satoshi Suzuki 6,875 4.8
Turnout 57.55 Decrease0.63
LDP hold
2021[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hiroyuki Togashi 77,960 51.9 Decrease1.2
CDP Manabu Terata (won a seat in PR block) 72,366 48.1
Turnout 58.18 Increase1.78
LDP hold
2017[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hiroyuki Togashi 79,442 53.7 Increase6.7
Kibō no Tō Daigo Matsuura 53,850 36.4
JCP Daigo Saitō 14,584 9.9 Increase1.7
Turnout 56.40 Increase2.32
LDP hold
2014[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hiroyuki Togashi 66,388 47.0 Increase0.3
Democratic Manabu Terata (won a seat in PR block) 57,782 40.9 Increase9.5
JCP Umeyoshi Yamauchi 11,579 8.2 Increase2.2
Social Democratic Masamichi Itō 5,441 3.9
Turnout 54.08 Decrease5.85
LDP hold
2012[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hiroyuki Togashi 73,356 46.7 Increase12.3
Democratic Manabu Terata 49,243 31.4 Decrease20.5
Restoration Nobuhiro Ōmiya 15,333 9.8
Tomorrow Kazuo Takamatsu 9,702 6.2
JCP Yoshio Satake 9,414 6.0 Decrease2.8
Turnout 59.93
LDP gain from Democratic
2009[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Manabu Terata 93,097 51.9 Increase7.5
LDP Kōji Futada 61,752 34.4 Decrease5.0
JCP Satoshi Suzuki 15,830 8.8 Increase1.1
Independent Yōkō Fujii 7,353 4.1
Happiness Realization Yukihiro Tsuruta 1,472 0.8
Turnout Decrease
Democratic hold
2005[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Manabu Terata 77,135 44.4 Increase0.3
LDP Kōji Futada (won a seat in PR block) 68,526 39.4
People's New Renjirō Ishikawa 14,751 8.5 Decrease7.2
JCP Kazunobu Imakawa 13,334 7.7 Decrease0.5
Turnout Increase
Democratic hold
2003[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Manabu Terata 68,586 44.1 Increase0.3
New Conservative Takao Satō 49,777 32.0 Decrease11.8
Independent Renjirō Ishikawa 24,382 15.7
JCP Kazunobu Imakawa 12,713 8.2 Increase0.5
Turnout
Democratic gain from LDP
2000[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kōji Futada 101,848 44.0 Increase3.6
Democratic Takao Satō (won a seat in PR block) 101,313 43.8 Decrease1.7
JCP Kazunobu Imakawa 17,738 7.7 Decrease6.4
Liberal Katsuo Funakawa 10,463 4.5
Turnout
LDP gain from New Frontier
1996[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Frontier Takao Satō 95,194 45.5
LDP Kōji Futada 84,625 40.4
JCP Kazuko Ogiwara 29,514 14.1
Turnout 62.83 Decrease7.89

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