Event / Concert 32nd Single Senbatsu Sousenkyo

The 32nd Single Senbatsu Sousenkyo (aka 5th General Election) has been announced. Voting ballots will be included in all editions of the 31st Single, to be released on May 22nd.

The ranking will be identical to that of last year:

01-16 Senbatsu
17-32 Under Girls
33-48 Next Girls
49-64 Future Girls

The actual ceremony will be held on June 8th, 5.30 pm, at Nissan Stadium, following their concert on the same day.

(official site)

(blog announcement)

GUIDE BOOK

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VOTING METHODS

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(1) Voting Ballot included in regular and theater editions of 31st single
(2) Membership of AKB48 Fan Club "Nihon-bashira no Kai"
(3) Paid subscription to "xxx48 Mobile" (any of the four groups)
(4) AKB48 Official Smart Phone Application Subscription
(5) "xxx48 LIVE!! ON DEMAND" Monthly Subscription
(6) AKB OFFICIAL NET membership

CANDIDACY SYSTEM

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One new system has been introduced to this year's election: Members will have to announce candidacy to be eligible for voting.
Members with the right to become candidate are as follows:

Unless a member submits her form to the election committee until April 7th, she will not be part of the election. This goes for all the above.



For reference, here is a list of former members that could - theoretically - be part of this election:

CANDIDATES

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Team A: ALL except Kasai, Nakatsuka, Nito
Team K: ALL except Akimoto, Matsubara
Team B: ALL except Komori
AKB48 KKS: ALL

Team S: ALL except Kito, Kuwabara, Takada, Hiramatsu, Yagami
Team KII: ALL except Akaeda, Ogiso, Sato Seira, Hata, Mukaida
Team E: ALL except Ueno, Hara
SKE48 KKS: ALL except Owaki, Ogino, Kobayashi, Fujimoto

Team N: ALL except Kishino, Shinohara, Fukumoto
Team M: ALL except Koyanagi, Yamamoto
Team BII: ALL
NMB48 KKS: ALL

Team H: ALL
HKT48 KKS: ALL

Others: Takajo Aki (JKT48), Suzuki Mariya (SNH48), Miyazawa Sae (SNH48), Urano Kazumi, Ohori Megumi, Kohara Haruka, Sato Yukari, Noro Kayo、Hirajima Natsumi

MEMBER POSTERS

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PRELIMINARY RESULTS

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http://ameblo.jp/akihabara48/entry-11538772479.html

1 Sashihara Rino　28,516
2 Watanabe Mayu　14,868
3 Oshima Yuko　13,993
4 Matsui Jurina　13,639
5 Kashiwagi Yuki　12,875
6 Matsui Rena　12,163
7 Shimazaki Haruka　11,817
8 Shibata Aya　11,513
9 Yokoyama Yui　10,596
10 Watanabe Miyuki 9,123
11 Suda Akari　8,750
12 Miyazawa Sae　8,560
13 Yamamoto Sayaka　8,061
14 Itano Tomomi　7,406
15 Shinoda Mariko　7,123
16 Kizaki Yuria　6,888
17 Matsumura Kaori　6,603
18 Takahashi Minami　6,596
19 Kobayashi Ami　6,533
20 Kojima Haruna　6,495
21 Umemoto Madoka　6,051
22 Umeda Ayaka　6,023
23 Yabushita Shu　5,530
24 Kodama Haruka　5,091
25 Saito Makiko　5,050
26 Minegishi Minami　4,866
27 Iriyama Anna　4,863
28 Takayanagi Akane　4,822
29 Oya Masana　4,699
30 Nakanishi Yuka　4,650
31 Jonishi Kei　4,632
32 Matsumoto Rina　4,490
33 Kawaei Rina　4,455
34 Furukawa Airi　4,382
35 Muto Tomu　4,187
36 Katayama Haruka　4,117
37 Takajo Aki　4,110
38 Kitahara Rie　3,502
39 Yakata Miki　3,274
40 Isohara Kyoka　3,271
41 Ota Aika　3,254
42 Tashima Meru　3,077
43 Kinoshita Yukiko　3,069
44 Ichikawa Miori　2,947
45 Oba Mina　2,866
46 Yamashita Yukari　2,862
47 Yamada Nana　2,854
48 Kaneko Shiori　2,819
49 Moriyasu Madoka　2,809
50 Maeda Ami　2,760
51 Tomonaga Mio　2,738
52 Fujie Reina　2,708
53 Kikuchi Ayaka　2,703
54 Kuramochi Asuka　2,698
55 Iwatate Saho　2,685
56 Ishida Haruka　2,661
57 Okamoto Naoko　2,660
58 Abe Maria　2,594
59 Yagura Fuuko　2,529
60 Suzuki Shihori　2,492
61 Miyawaki Sakura　2,481
62 Iwasa Misaki　2,406
63 Tano Yuka　2,393
64 Kimoto Kanon　2,274

 

Meetan centre

 

WHAT?!?!?!

Watch Acchan coming in 1st even though she graduated 1 year ago.

Well, she HAS TO present her candicacy, right? I guess she won't.

 

so guys, let's vote for aachan and let her be the queen of akb48 one more time !!!

 

What day is the actual event? The 8th?

Honestly I hope Acchan opts out. She went out with such a bang and AKB has spent the year adapting to life without her. Why does she need to come back?

 

Maybe pyon, yuttan, nakayan & acchan won't to register theirself~

 

I agree. It would be unfair for the current members to not get any promotion because Acchan is taking up a spot in the election. I don't think she'll return

Members who've left because of scandals probably won't return

But Meetan she's really popular now after she's left. At minogashita 2 everyone was cheering when she went on stage. She could rank highly

 

Yaaaaaaaaaay exciting! Now we just need some single news! I'm going to allow myself to splurge and buy four copies so I can cast one vote per group. I do look forward to reading about users here who buy dozens of copies to support their oshi.

That graduated members inclusion could be huge, potentially, but I really don't expect many former members to include their candidacy. I certainly doubt Acchan would, although she'd surely be a shoo-in for senbatsu then. But I think it would be kind of demeaning for a graduated member, especially a long-gone one, to suddenly campaign and then not get ranked, or get ranked as a Future Girl or something. As much as I'd love to be able to cast a vote for Yuka or Meetan, I think their chances of making senbatsu would be pretty slim, so I dunno.

 

Seems Nacchan (Natsumi Hirajima) might be the most probable graduated member who will submit application form

 

What?! A graduate member can join the election? I'm not agree with this. Graduation is graduation. She had left akb. There's no way to participate in this big event. I hope no graduate member will include candidacy..

Aki-p is trolling again

 

I guess we'll now in (around) 2 weeks who will run and who will not. Damn, this is turning pollitical.

As for the graduate members... why only the members who were 4 years in the group? To me, it would make more sense something like... "graduate members who left more than 2 years ago" just for the memories and such.
You can bet that if Acchan applies, she'll crush the competition because fans will go crazy over her since it may be the last time (again...) they see her in AKB. And I really hope she applies, just for the LOLZ.

I guess the girls who didn't rank last year will not apply so they don't go under the shame of not ranking again.
I hope W-Tomomi don't (if that article saying they will graduate after the Budokan is true, they won't even be around for the election).
And I wonder if KKS can apply to... and if so, will Minegishi? She'll probably go to the UG after all that happened. Will she be fine with that? Maybe it's the only chance she has to sing something with someone who is not a KKS until... god knows when.

Damn, all the possibilities.

 

It would be her choice, she would have to opt-in. I really wouldn't expect her to do that. I think it's going to be interesting to see which former members DO decide to participate, but unless management somehow persuades them I just don't see it being as dramatic a change as it sounds.

 

I wonder if there will be any members of the groups at this point who won't apply for the sousenkyo. Some members might not want to take part in it

It's so interesting

 

I find this "also graduated members" thing pretty weird. Right now I just hope that Kenkyuusei can apply, too (esp. someone like Kaotan, who ranked last year).

What I find good is that they are going for four ranking groups again instead of what they did until 2011.

 

I want Acchan to come back just to troll the fuq out of everyone
Realistically tho it's better if she sit out cuz she should be focusing on her career...and it's Yuko's time to shine so everyone can GTFO
OMG MAH feel for this yr election ~ AKB is no fun without dramas

 

Now that the election is optional, I bet Yuko won't even run to be honest.

 

Okay guys. Stop spamming and read the OP. It's all there.

It's current members as of March 31st so the above-mentioned SKE members aren't considered graduated members. Still - whether graduated or not - ALL members will have to decide whether they want to be part of it or not. Current members are NOT automatically a part of the election.

 

Question is, what graduate members would be willing to come back for this event? I wonder why Aki-p did this, perhaps he's got one girl already confirmed? I bet it's Ono Erena!

Almost any girl who comes back would probably draw the ire of a lot of fans because they'd be pushing out their oshimen. Well I think fans would be ok with Acchan (she'll never do it) and perhaps the most recent grads like Masuda Yuka, Sato Natsuki, and Nakaya Sayaka.

 

In fact we still can't make assumption until 7th April., because as HRP said, they have to fill the form to be candidate to the 5th election. We listed the potential eligible, but not the actual members who will participate.

In my opinion, it's more like a gamble than something else. If you are graduated or graduating, on the one hand you make a huge impact because people want to support you for the last time like request hour, or on the other hand you get a fall in the vote and you get really frustrated.

Really this new candidacy option really disturb me a lot. I know Members like Acchan or Ono will not participate ( Acchan applying would be like announcing 3rd world wide war). But for member like Wtomomi, kuumin or shiori, they may be tempted to apply for a last farewell, and got a huge push since it's the last time they get supported.

I'm really excited for Appril 7th. Only at this date we can start making insane prediction. But for the moment, we have no clue of members who apply or not.

PS : i want Yuko to participate. To me she is already beyond this election, but to put a fight to Mayuyu would be the highest proof of respect to the next generation. To be beaten fair and square, it's like acknowledging the new generation to be ready for the next chapter. If she doesn't participate it's almost sure Mayuyu will be center, and it will taste like a "given" position. I'm sure Mayuyu want to take the Ace position by her strength, not because Yuko gave her.

 

Yonezawa tweeted that she isn't interested in participating.

https://twitter.com/rumiii0606/statuses ... 2876968962

That's not much of a surprise. Her and Nacchan are pretty much undesirables considering their scandal. Ono isn't exactly on too good terms with AKB and Meetan is a married woman (although she might be there just for yucks). For N-nacchi it won't be an option just as well as it won't be Masuda. Acchan is out for good and won't make anyone happy by being there. Nakayan isn't likely to take part due to her all-too-recent graduation and voice actress auditions. I don't exactly see Oku have the guts or enthusiasm to sign up either.
Still I'm sure we'll see a number of alumni signing up. Management wouldn't be opening this option if they didn't know already that some were going to join in.