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, making it the only district in Tōhoku to entirely contain a single municipality.

As of February 8, 2026, the district was home to 251,935 constituents.^[2]

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

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroyuki Togashi	65,940	46.5	4.8
	DPP	Sachiko Kimura	25,510	18
	Centrist Reform	Shusaku Hayakawa	22,665	16
	Ishin	Daigo Matsuura	14,843	10.5	1.9
	Sanseitō	Miwako Sato	7,645	5.4
	JCP	Satoshi Suzuki	5,246	3.7	1.1
Turnout			141,849	56.82	0.73
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroyuki Togashi	60,387	41.7	10.2
	CDP	Manabu Terata (won a seat in PR block)	59,515	41.1	7.0
	Ishin	Daigo Matsuura	17,865	12.4
	JCP	Satoshi Suzuki	6,875	4.8
Turnout				57.55	0.63
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	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
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroyuki Togashi	79,442	53.7	6.7
	Kibō no Tō	Daigo Matsuura	53,850	36.4
	JCP	Daigo Saitō	14,584	9.9	1.7
Turnout				56.40	2.32
	LDP hold

Akita 1st district

Election results

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroyuki Togashi	66,388	47.0	0.3
	Democratic	Manabu Terata (won a seat in PR block)	57,782	40.9	9.5
	JCP	Umeyoshi Yamauchi	11,579	8.2	2.2
	Social Democratic	Masamichi Itō	5,441	3.9
Turnout				54.08	5.85
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroyuki Togashi	73,356	46.7	12.3
	Democratic	Manabu Terata	49,243	31.4	20.5
	Restoration	Nobuhiro Ōmiya	15,333	9.8
	Tomorrow	Kazuo Takamatsu	9,702	6.2
	JCP	Yoshio Satake	9,414	6.0	2.8
Turnout				59.93
	LDP gain from Democratic

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Manabu Terata	93,097	51.9	7.5
	LDP	Kōji Futada	61,752	34.4	5.0
	JCP	Satoshi Suzuki	15,830	8.8	1.1
	Independent	Yōkō Fujii	7,353	4.1
	Happiness Realization	Yukihiro Tsuruta	1,472	0.8
Turnout
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Manabu Terata	77,135	44.4	0.3
	LDP	Kōji Futada (won a seat in PR block)	68,526	39.4
	People's New	Renjirō Ishikawa	14,751	8.5	7.2
	JCP	Kazunobu Imakawa	13,334	7.7	0.5
Turnout
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Manabu Terata	68,586	44.1	0.3
	New Conservative	Takao Satō	49,777	32.0	11.8
	Independent	Renjirō Ishikawa	24,382	15.7
	JCP	Kazunobu Imakawa	12,713	8.2	0.5
Turnout
	Democratic gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kōji Futada	101,848	44.0	3.6
	Democratic	Takao Satō (won a seat in PR block)	101,313	43.8	1.7
	JCP	Kazunobu Imakawa	17,738	7.7	6.4
	Liberal	Katsuo Funakawa	10,463	4.5
Turnout
	LDP gain from New Frontier

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	7.89

v t e 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: Eisuke Mori, Chiba 11th Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Keiichi Ishii, Northern Kanto PR
Hokkaidō	Block 8 seats Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku	Block 12 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	Block 19 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	Block 23 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	Block 19 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	Block 10 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	Block 21 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	Block 28 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	Block 10 seats Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku	Block 6 seats Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū	Block 20 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
Former districts	Abolished in 2002 Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4 Abolished in 2013 Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3 Abolished in 2017 Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5 Abolished in 2022 Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4