Kitaakita elections

Kitaakita City has held mayoral elections every four years since 2005, the year of its establishment.

City mayors

#	Mayor	Term	Remarks
1	Susumu Kishibe 岸部　陞	2005 - 2009 (1 term)	Mayor of Takanosu Town 2003-2005
2	Eikoh Tsuya 津谷　永光	2009 - present (5 terms)	Incumbent

2025 mayoral election

Elections took place on Sunday, April 6, 2025.

Incumbent Eikoh Tsuya defeated newcomer Takashi Abukawa to win his 5th term. This was the first mayoral election in Kitaakita in 12 years.

Abukawa had previously served as a city councilor in Kitaakita City.

City Mayor

Candidate	Age	Position	Affiliation	Supported by	Count	Percentage
Eikoh Tsuya 津谷　永光	73	Incumbent	Independent	Komeito	9,602	60.7%
Takashi Abukawa 虻川　敬	52	New	Independent	-	6,215	39.3%

169 ballots were declared invalid.

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2021 mayoral election

The election was scheduled to be held on April 4th, 2021. However only one contender announced candidacy, so the election was called without a vote.

Incumbent Eikoh Tsuya won reelection without a vote. He won his 4th term.

City Mayor

Candidate	Age	Position	Affiliation	Count
Eikoh Tsuya 津谷　永光	69	Incumbent	Independent	-

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2017 mayoral election

The election was scheduled to be held on April 9th, 2017. However only one contender announced candidacy, so the election was called without a vote.

Incumbent Eikoh Tsuya won reelection without a vote. He won his 3rd term.

City Mayor

Candidate	Age	Position	Affiliation	Count
Eikoh Tsuya 津谷　永光	65	Incumbent	Independent	-

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2013 mayoral election

Elections took place on April 7, 2013.

Incumbent Eikoh Tsuya defeated newcomer Motoharu Narita to win his 2nd term.

City Mayor

Candidate	Age	Position	Affiliation	Count	Percentage
Eikoh Tsuya 津谷　永光	61	Incumbent	Independent	14,673	72.2%
Motoharu Narita 成田　元晴	63	New	Independent	5,641	27.8%

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2009 mayoral election

Elections took place on April 12, 2009.

Incumbent mayor Susumu Kishibe retired at the end of his term, so this election was decided between two newcomers. Eikoh Tsuya defeated Tetsu Iwakawa to become the second mayor of Kitaakita.

Tsuya had previously served as a prefectural assemblyman, affiliated with the LDP.

Iwakawa had previously served three terms as the mayor of Takanosu Town, losing in the 2003 mayoral elections to Susumu Kishibe. In the 2003 election, then-incumbent mayor Iwakawa ran on a platform opposing the merger of Takanosu with Aikawa Town, Moriyoshi Town, and Ani Town into Kitaakita City.

City Mayor

Candidate	Age	Position	Affiliation	Count	Percentage
Eikoh Tsuya 津谷　永光	57	New	Independent	17,916	68.5%
Tetsu Iwakawa 岩川　徹	60	New	Independent	8,243	31.5%

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2005 mayoral election

Elections took place on April 17, 2005.

This was the first mayoral election held following the establishment of Kitaakita City. Susumu Kishibe defeated Mitsuko Kozuka to become the first mayor of Kitaakita.

Susumu Kishibe was the incumbent mayor of Takanosu Town, resolutely winning election in the 2003 town mayoral election, at the time of its merger into Kitaakita City.

Mayoral duties were temporarily fulfilled by Shusuke Sato, the incumbent mayor of Aikawa Town, in the period between Kitaakita City's founding on March 22 and the election of Kishibe on April 17. Sato would go on to serve as deputy mayor under Kishibe.

Mitsuko Kozuka had previously served as a town councilor in Takanosu Town.

City Mayor

Candidate	Age	Position	Affiliation	Count	Percentage
Susumu Kishibe 岸部　陞	68	New	Independent	17,056	65.4%
Mitsuko Kozuka 小塚　光子	58	New	Independent	9,030	34.6%

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Incumbent mayors pre-merger

The following is the list of incumbent mayors of each of the four towns which merged to form Kitaakita at the time of merger.

Town Mayors

Town	Name	Age	Elected	Term
Takanosu	Susumu Kishibe 岸部　陞	68	March 22, 2003	1st
Moriyoshi	Kondo Ken'ichiro 近藤　健一郎	49	November 18, 2004	1st
Ani	Hamada Sho? 濱田　章	79	July, 2001	?
Aikawa	Shusuke Sato 佐藤　修助	61	December, 2002	?

See also

• Kitaakita
• Kamikoani elections