# 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, 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.
The district is represented by Hiroyuki Togashi of the Liberal Democratic Party.

## List of representatives

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

## Election results

2024 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | 57.55 | 0.63 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2021 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | 58.18 | 1.78 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2017 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | 56.40 | 2.32 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2014 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | 54.08 | 5.85 |
| | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold | LDP hold |
2012 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | 59.93 | |
| | LDP gain from Democratic | LDP gain from Democratic | LDP gain from Democratic | LDP gain from Democratic | LDP gain from Democratic |
2009 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | | |
| | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold |
2005 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | | |
| | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold |
2003 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | | |
| | Democratic gain from LDP | Democratic gain from LDP | Democratic gain from LDP | Democratic gain from LDP | Democratic gain from LDP |
2000 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | | |
| | LDP gain from New Frontier | LDP gain from New Frontier | LDP gain from New Frontier | LDP gain from New Frontier | LDP gain from New Frontier |
1996 :
| Party | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | 62.83 | 7.89 |