Akita 1st district

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.

Map of electoral districts in Akita prefecture

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

Election results

2021[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Hiroyuki Togashi	77,960	51.9	1.2
	CDP	Manabu Terata (won a seat in PR block)	72,366	48.1
Turnout				58.18	1.78
	Liberal Democratic hold

2017[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Hiroyuki Togashi	79,442	53.7	6.7
	Kibō no Tō	Daigo Matsuura	53,850	36.4
	Communist	Daigo Saitō	14,584	9.9	1.7
Turnout				56.40	2.32
	Liberal Democratic hold

References

"Akita | prefecture, Japan | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
"総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数". 総務省 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-06-14.
"TOGASHI_Hiroyuki_Shugiin". www.shugiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
小選挙区秋田1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
小選挙区秋田1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.

First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 23 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 32 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 33 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 25 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 19 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 32 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 47 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4

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