The 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
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |Party total seats ! style="text-align:center;" | Won ! style="text-align:center;" | Total ! style="text-align:center;" | Change |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Shizuka Terata (Ind.) |align=right|1 |align=right|1 |align=right| |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Liberal Democratic Party |align=right|0 |align=right|1 |align=right|
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