Akita at-large district

The Akita at-large district(Japanese: 秋田県選挙区, Hepburn: Akita-ken Senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Akita Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. Councillors are elected to the house by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. Since the establishment of the current House of Councillors electoral system in 1947, the district has elected two Councillors, one each at elections held every three years. It has 819,474 registered voters as of September 2022.

The Councillors currently representing Akita are:

Hiroo Ishii (LDP); a former professional baseball in the Nippon Professional Baseball leagues, was elected to his first term in 2010 and re-elected in 2016 and 2022. His current term will end in 2028.
Shizuka Terata (Independent); elected to her first term in 2019 and re-elected in 2025. Her current term will end in 2031.

Elected Councillors

Class of 1947	Election year	Class of 1950
(1947: 6-year term)	(1947: 3-year term)
Yasutaka Suzuki (Liberal)	1947	Junkichi Ishikawa (Ind.)
1950	Kōki Haseyama (Liberal)
Hajime Suzuki (Ind.)	1953
1956	Hitoshi Suzuki (Social Democratic)
Koichi Matsuno (LDP)	1958 by-el.
1959
1962
1965
Masaji Sawada (Social Democratic)	1967 by-el.
1968	Goro Yamazaki (LDP)
1971
1974
1976 by-el.	Man Sasaki (LDP)
Hosei Norota (LDP)	1977
1980
Hiromitsu Deguchi (LDP)	1983
1986
Akio Hosoya (Social Democratic)	1989
1992
Katsutoshi Kaneda (LDP)	1995
1998	Shigenobu Saito (LDP)
2001
2004	Yoetsu Suzuki (Ind.) Endorsed by DPJ, SDP
Daigo Matsuura (Ind.) Endorsed by DPJ, SDP, PNP	2007
2010	Hiroo Ishii (LDP)
Matsuji Nakaizumi (LDP)	2013
2016
Shizuka Terata (Ind.)	2019
2022
2025

Election results

2025: Akita at-large 1 seat
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Shizuka Terata	219,717	47.98	2.48
	LDP	Matsuji Nakaizumi	171,324	37.41	5.25
	Sanseitō	Miwako Satō	60,153	13.14	10.88
	Anti-NHK	Yukihisa Honda	6,715	1.47	0.08
Turnout		58.57	3.01
Registered electors	792,910
Party total seats	Won	Total	Change
	Shizuka Terata (Ind.)	1	1
	Liberal Democratic Party	0	1

2022
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroo Ishii (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito)	194,949	42.66%	11.28
	Independent	Toshihide Muraoka (Endorsed by DPP)	162,889	35.65%	New
	Independent	Yuriko Sasa (Endorsed by CDP)	62,415	13.66%	New
	JCP	Yuri Fujimoto	19,983	4.37%	New
	Sanseito	Mamiko Ito	10,329	2.26%	New
	Anti-NHK	Yukihisa Honda	6,368	1.39%	New
Turnout	833,368	55.56%	0.73

2019
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Shizuka Terata	242,286	50.5%	−
	LDP	Matsuji Nakaizumi	221,219	46.1%	−6.2
	Anti-NHK	Ryuuji Ishioka	16,683	3.5%	−
Turnout	864,560	56.29%	−4.58

2016
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroo Ishii	290,052	53.9%	−1.7
	Democratic	Daigo Matsuura	236,521	44.0%	+5.0
	Happiness Realization	Akira Nishino	11,131	2.1%	+0.7
Turnout	897,614	60.87%

2013
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Matsuji Nakaizumi (endorsed by Komeito)	260,846	52.3
	Democratic	Daigo Matsuura	194,497	39.0
	JCP	Yoshio Satake	36,371	7.3
	Happiness Realization	Akira Nishino	6,736	1.4
Turnout

2010
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroo Ishii (Endorsed by Sunrise Party)	328,771	55.6
	Democratic	Yoetsu Suzuki (Endorsed by People's New Party)	226,217	38.3
	JCP	Kazuhisa Fujita	36,320	6.1
Turnout

2007
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Daigo Matsuura (Endorsed by DPJ, SDP)	319,631	50.4
	LDP	Katsutoshi Kaneda (Endorsed by Komeito)	276,694	43.6
	JCP	Satoshi Suzuki	38,394	6.0
Turnout