| Akita at-large district | |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Parl Name: | House of Councillors |
| District Label: | Prefecture |
| District: | Akita |
| Electorate: | 819,474[1] |
| Year: | 1947 |
| Seats: | 2 |
| Member Label: | Councillors |
| Member: | Class of 2019:Class of 2022: |
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 888,496 registered voters as of September 2015.[2]
The Councillors currently representing Akita are:
| 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[3] | ||
| 2010[4] | Hiroo Ishii (LDP) | ||
| Matsuji Nakaizumi (LDP) | 2013[5] | ||
| 2016[6] | |||
| Shizuka Terata (Ind.) | 2019[7] |