The AKB48 9th Senbatsu Sousenkyo General Election 2017 is finally over!  Were you happy with the outcome?

First, here are the final results:

Senbatsu Members (選抜メンバー)

• 1位 → Sashihara Rino (246,376)
• 2位 → Watanabe Mayu (149,132)
• 3位 → Matsui Jurina (113,615)
• 4位 → Miyawaki Sakura (82,803)
• 5位 → Ogino Yuka (73,368)
• 6位 → Suda Akari (63,124)
• 7位 → Yokoyama Yui (58,314)
• 8位 → Souda Sarina (52,475)
• 9位 → Okada Nana (48,143)
• 10位 → Kitahara Rie (45,684)
• 11位 → Takahashi Juri (42,663)
• 12位 → Shiroma Miru (41,491)
• 13位 → Honma Hinata (41,230)
• 14位 → Furuhata Nao (40,202)
• 15位 → Takayanagi Akane (38,576)
• 16位 → Yoshida Akari (35,540)

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Undergirls (アンダーガールズ)

• 17位 → Mukaichi Mion
• 18位 → Matsumura Kaori
• 19位 → Minegishi Minami
• 20位 → Suto Ririka
• 21位 → Kato Rena
• 22位 → Oya Masana
• 23位 → Nakai Rika
• 24位 → Kojima Mako
• 25位 → Takakura Moeka
• 26位 → Oba Mina
• 27位 → Ota Yuri
• 28位 → Tanaka Miku
• 29位 → Kawamoto Saya
• 30位 → Kurano Narumi
• 31位 → Moriyasu Madoka
• 32位 → Fukuoka Seina

Next Girls (ネクストガールズ)

• 33位 → Kato Yuuka
• 34位 → Fuchigami Mai
• 35位 → Tomonaga Mio
• 36位 → Ego Yuna
• 37位 → Yabuki Nako
• 38位 → Tomiyoshi Asuka
• 39位 → Murase Sae
• 40位 → Tashima Meru
• 41位 → Nishigata Marina
• 42位 → Iwatate Saho
• 43位 → Sasaki Yukari
• 44位 → Kamata Natsuki
• 45位 → Taniguchi Megu
• 46位 → Goto Rara
• 47位 → Kubo Satone
• 48位 → Okita Ayaka

Future Girls (フューチャーガールズ)

• 49位 → Sakaguchi Riko
• 50位 → Tanaka Natsumi
• 51位 → Oguri Yui
• 52位 → Komiyama Haruka
• 53位 → Yamaguchi Maho
• 54位 → Ueki Nao
• 55位 → Mutou Orin
• 56位 → Takeuchi Saki
• 57位 → Tanigawa Airi
• 58位 → Arai Yuki
• 59位 → Matsuoka Natsumi
• 60位 → Shibuya Nagisa
• 61位 → Ichikawa Miori
• 62位 → Motomura Aoi
• 63位 → Kumazaki Haruka
• 64位 → Kitagawa Ryouha

Upcoming Girls (アップカミングガールズ)

• 65位 → Ota Nao
• 66位 →Tani Marika
• 67位 → Nagano Serika
• 68位 → Sato Sumire
• 69位 → Sakaguchi Nagisa
• 70位 → Miyajima Aya
• 71位 → Kato Minami
• 72位 → Obata Yuna
• 73位 → Hiwatashi Yui
• 74位 → Shinobu Mogi
• 75位 → Omori Miyu
• 76位 → Goto Moe
• 77位 → Kado Yuria
• 78位 → Takahata Yuki
• 79位 → Toyonaga Aki
• 80位 → Matsuoka Hana

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Obviously, the venue turned out a little different this year, as a result of the crazy weather conditions.  Not quite the same without the crowd, but at least it wasn’t outright cancelled, so am thankful for that!

Continuing the trend from previous years, last year’s number 80 position was just over 13,000. This year, Matsuoka Hana at #80 managed to receive 15,396 votes.

• As usual, I’m still reeling from the entire show, and have honestly been out of the loop for a long time! But here are some random thoughts and otherwise completely unsubstantiated observations:
• The lower rank changes are always pretty interesting. Ota Nao unranked to ranked, and former fresh-lemon, Ichikawa Miori, coming up from #81 (unranked). Unfortunately, Komiyama Haruka dropped 30 spots from 21 to 52 – a big contrast from last year when she was unranked and placed into the undergirls bracket.
• Oh, NGT48 had a pretty good year. It was impossible to not hear Yamada Noe cheering.
• The next girls bracket was a little boring, since there wasn’t much movement, but it is nice to see some new faces. Although it was hard seeing Tomonaga Mio and Yabuki Nako drop from the undergirls bracket watching their speeches (T-T)
• There was an odd moment when announcing #17 rank. Based on who they were cheering for and the camera focus, I don’t think AKB members were expecting it to be Mukaichi Mion, but another Team K member. Just a wild conjecture.
• Suto Ririka getting married?!?! Holy Crap.
• Yoshida Akari: crazy come back. Being 77 last year, it was easy to think that she’d be unranked. Shall we call this the void where some of Yamamoto Sayaka’s votes have gone?

I wish Nyan-nyan Kamen was around to lighten up the mood, but was still a great show. Were you happy with this year’s results?