AKB 48 ‘s second ” general election ” was done with a sensational outcome
Following the first “general election” hosted last July,AKB48 the top female idol group hosted the second “general election” in this June.
The outcome of the election was announced at a big ceremony and was a dramatic one, whose all course was broadcast live at 29 movie theaters nationwide on Jun.9. Yuko Oshima (/大島優子) who had won the second at the first general election now won the historic “come-from-behind victory” over Atsuko Maeda(/前田敦子) who had won the number one at the first one.
At this second general election, totally there were more than 380,000 votes which were equal to average votes of a mayoral election of a big city whose population is more than one million ! The voters were members of the official fan club, AKB48 mobile members, SKE48 mobile members, members of DMM LIVE ON DEMAND that the Internet streaming service of AKB48 lives broadcast, and customers who bought the most recent CD of “Ponytail to shushu”(/ポニーテールとシュシュ,Ponytail and Scrunchy) which had been released on May 26 that had hit the number one daily single chart with more than 354,000 sales only on the first day.
The electoral period was about two weeks and the first edition of each CD of Ponytail and Scrunchy ,which has three different types of Type A, Type B and Theater Type, includes a ballot ,so the more cds you buy, the more ballots you have, which influenced the outcome.
The “candidates” were totally 104 ,some of which were AKB48 regular members, the trainees, SKE48 regular members, and the trainees. All of them did election campaign in the period making speech video clips and others.
The primary purpose was to choose the members of “the Selected Team” of the 17th single cd and their postions at the perfomance. The top members whose rates were number one -21th, have been chosen as the selected team members to sing the 17th song of the single cd, especially, top 12 members are called “the selected members for the media”, who are allowed to perform in various TV programs and events and do campaign of the song. 13th-21th memebers can sing the song on ordinary occasions. The members of 22nd – 40th are called “The Under Girls” who will sing the song on side B of the coming 17th single cd. Those top 40 members are the successful candidates.
At the interim report, Atsuko Maeda was the temporary top, and she had always been the top since the debut of the group including the first general election last year. Therefore, this time’s outcome was a symbolic and drastic dynamics of the character of this group, people say.
Both Oshima and Maeda work as actors in various TV dramas and movies, some say oshima is more talented in acting though I think that depends on the taste.
Maeda at the moment plays the part of a sister of Ryoma Sakamoto in “Ryomaden(/龍馬伝)” which I wrote about several months ago. Oshima also perfomes in TV variety shows as she has logner career inthe showbiz world. Still, Team K on which Oshima is, is the scond team of AKB, while Team A on which Maeda is, is the original first one, thistime was the time of drastic change of power balance of the gruop.
At the announcement ceremony, each member was called her name accroding to her rate ,and made a short speech one by one. the winner Yuko Oshima said in a ry of joy, “I am too hapyy to say a word… At the last election as number two, I asked all oy you to give me a aupportive push, but as the top this time, I would not say so anymore. And now I say follow me please, everuone ! ” On the other hand, the second who was the ” permanent nember one ” Atsuko Maeda said,” To tell you the truth, I feel frustreted with this result but in another way i feel relieved. ”
However, the ranks have not so much different from the first election in general. The ranks of the successful candidates are as followes;
No.1 Team K 大島優子(Yuko Oshima) 31448 votes
No.2 TeamA 前田敦子(Atsuko Maeda) 30851
No.3 Team A 篠田麻里子(Mariko Shinoda) 23139
No.4 Team K 板野友美(Tomomi Itano) 20513
No.5 Team B 渡辺麻友(Mayu Watanabe) 20088
No.6 Team A 高橋みなみ(Minami Takahashi) 17787
No.7 Team A 小嶋陽菜(Haruna Kojima) 16231
No.8 Team B 柏木由紀(Yuki Kashiwagi) 15466
No.9 Team K 宮澤佐江(Sae Miyazawa) 12560
No.10 Team S 松井珠理奈(Jyurina Matsui) 12168
No.11 Team S 松井玲奈(Rena Matsui) 12082
No.12 Team B 河西智美(Tomomi Kasai) 11080
No.13 Team A 高城亜樹(Aki Takajou) 11062
No.14 Team K 峯岸みなみ(Minami Minegishi) 9692
No.15 Team K 小野恵令奈(Erena Ono) 9468
No.16 Team B 北原里英(Rie Kitahara) 8836
No.17 Team K 秋元才加(Sayaka Akimoto) 8049
No.18 Team B 佐藤亜美菜(Amina Sato) 6921
No.19 Team A 指原莉乃(Rino Sashihara) 6704
No.20 Team A 仲川遥香(Haruka Nakagawa) 6567
No.21 Team B 宮崎美穂(Miho Miyazaki) 6371
No.22 Team A 多田愛佳(Aika Ohta) 6145
No.23 Team A 倉持明日香(Asuka Kuramochi) 5355
No.24 Team S 大矢真那(Masana Ohya) 4634
No.25 Team B 増田有華(Yuka Masuda) 4137
No.26 Team B 平嶋夏海(Natsumi Hirajima) 4106
No.27 Team B 石田晴香(Haruka Ishida) 3235
No.28 AKB48 trainee 島崎遥香(Haruka Shimazaki) 3076
No.29 Team K 仁藤萌乃(Moeno Nito) 2693
No.30 Team B 小森美果(Mika Komori) 2613
No.31 Team B 佐藤すみれ(Sumire Sato) 2591
No.32 Team K 梅田彩佳(Ayaka Umeda) 2499
No.33 Team K 藤江れいな(Reina Fujie) 2460
No.34 Team K 米沢瑠美(Rumi Yonezawa) 2171
No.35 Team K Ⅱ 高柳明音（Akane Takayanagi） 2030
No.36 AKb48 trainee 山内 鈴蘭(Suzuran Yamauchi) 1945
No.37 Team A 片山陽加(Haruka Katayama) 1935
No.38 Team S 矢神久美(Kumi Yagami) 1909
No.39 Team A 松原夏海(Natsumi Matsubara) 1854
No.40 AKb48 trainee 石黒貴己(Atsuki Ishiguro) 1603
※Team A … the original and first team of aKb48. Team K… the second team of AKb48. Team B…the third team of AKB48. Team S…the first team of SKE48. Team K Ⅱ…the second team of SKE48.
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