Dramatic Sousenkyo

The Dramatic Sousenkyo is professional wrestling fan votation election held by DDT Pro-Wrestling, were the winner and the secondly placed wrestler are awarded a title shot for the KO-D Openweight Championship and the winner exclusively wins ¥3,000,000. All campaigns for wrestlers to win the vote in are forbidden only during the break and the net contents are accepted for the campaign. The Dramatic Sousenkyo is also called Dramatic General Election being renamed in 2014 or when it was established it was known as the DDT48 due to the votes of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. If the KO-D Openweight Champion wins the election he can select his 1º contender.

In 2015 it was open a unit division where the bottom unit his forced to disband those include pig ing, pig ing 2015, pig ing 2016 and pig ing 2017. Also in 2015, it was allowed Ganbare☆Puroresu and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling to take part of the election. Since Pro Wrestling BASARA was launched in 2015 wrestlers from BASARA couldn't take part of the election in 2016.

History

The DDT48 was introduced on August 9, 2010. The DDT48 consisted of fans voting for their favorite wrestlers. The wrestlers who are on the first and second place are awarded a KO-D Openweight Championship on two different dates and more wrestlers can be added during the election. If the KO-D Openweight Champion wins the election he can select his 1º contender. The election starts with 18 wrestlers. The wrestlers who take part in the election can campaign themselves on their social accounts. People can only vote if they have a ticket to any of the DDT shows between now and October. One vote is given for one ticket. Another vote is given for every 3,000 yen spent at the merch table during shows. All DDT's sub-brands can also take part of the election.

The winner Danshoku Dino received his KO-D Openweight title shot on October 24 unsuccessfully challenging the reigning champion HARASHIMA. However, second placed wrestler Hikaru Sato went on defeating HARASHIMA on November 24 to win the KO-D Openweight Championship.

In 2011 the DDT48 election winner Hikaru Sato received his KO-D Openweight title shot on October 23 unsuccessfully challenging KUDO.

In 2012 the DDT48 election winner Kota Ibushi received his KO-D Openweight title shot on October 21 unsuccessfully challenging El Generico.

Danshoku Dino became the first wrestler to win the DDT48 election two times winning the first and the 2013 DDT48 election. Dino received his KO-D Openweight title shot on October 20 unsuccessfully challenging HARASHIMA. This match was also for Dino's Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship. This followed up with Kota Ibushi reaching Dino's record of winning two elections the 2012 and 2014. Also in 2014 the election was renamed to Dramatic Election or also known as Dramatic Sousenkyo. In 2014 it was also added a unit selection where the last placed unit would be forced to disband. Pigging was the last placed unit in 2014 and it was forced to disband and Smile Squash was the winner of the unit election. In 2015 the winner of the Dramatic Election was Isami Kodaka. Kodaka became the first wrestler to successfully win his championship shot defeating reigning champion Yukio Sakaguchi on November 28. The winner of the unit selection was #OhkaTeikoku and the loser was Pigging 2015 and as results, they were forced to disband.

The winner of the 2016 election HARASHIMA successfully won his shot for the KO-D Openweight Championship defeating reigning champion Shuji Ishikawa on December 4, winning his ninth KO-D Openweight Championship. The winner of the unit selection was DAMNATION and the loser and forced to disband was Pigging 2016. With the money of the prize, DAMNATION booked their own shown.

The year of 2017 was a record breaking with Danshoku Dino winning the election for the third time and DAMNATION won their second election. Dino received his shot unsuccessfully challenging the reigning KO-D Openweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita on October 22. The unit who was forced to disband and ended in the last place was Pigging 2017. HARASHIMA who was in second place was given 300,000 yen and a title match for any of the other championships in DDT except for the KO-D Openweight Championship. HARASHIMA chose a title shot for the DDT Extreme Division Championship and he unsuccessfully challenged Daisuke Sasaki on October 22.

The 2018 winner Masahiro Takanashi received his KO-D Openweight title shot on November 25 and Shuten-dōji won their first election. The unit who was forced to disband and ended in the last place was BOOing 2018. Akito who was in second place was given 300,000 yen and a title match for any of the other championships in DDT except for the KO-D Openweight Championship.

List of winners

Wrestlers election

Year	Winner	Total won
2010	Danshoku Dino	1
2011	Hikaru Sato	1
2012	Kota Ibushi	1
2013	Danshoku Dino	2
2014	Kota Ibushi	2
2015	Isami Kodaka	1
2016	HARASHIMA	1
2017	Danshoku Dino	3
2018	Masahiro Takanashi	1

Units election

Year	Winner	Total won
2014	Smile Squash	1
2015	#OhkaTeikoku	1
2016	DAMNATION	1
2017	DAMNATION	2
2018	Shuten-dōji	1

2010

Place	Wrestler	Votes
1.	Danshoku Dino	512
2.	Hikaru Sato	489
3.	Cherry	309
4.	HARASHIMA	258
5.	Kota Ibushi	254
6.	Sanshiro Takagi	233
7.	Michael Nakazawa	231
8.	Antonio Honda	230
9.	Shuji Ishikawa	225
10.	MIKAMI	213
11.	Yoshihiko	209
12.	Toru Owashi	206
13.	Yasu Urano	183
14.	Isami Kodaka	182
15.	Kenny Omega	171
16.	Dick Togo	164
17.	Kudo	159
18.	Keisuke Ishii	146
19.	Yukihiro Abe	132
20.	Shigehiro Irie	132
Total Votes:	5973

2011

Place	Wrestler	Votes
1.	Hikaru Sato	558
2.	Kota Ibushi	389
3.	Danshoku Dino	387
4.	Yasu Urano	380
5.	Masa Takanashi	363
6.	Makoto Oishi	356
7.	Cherry	335
8.	HARASHIMA	287
9.	MIKAMI	252
10.	Isami Kodaka	248
11.	Ken Ohka	247
12.	Kudo	228
13.	Sanshiro Takagi	197
14.	DJ Nira	195
15.	Antonio Honda	182
16.	Keisuke Ishii	179
17.	Shuji Ishikawa	176
18.	Soma Takao	174
19.	Michael Nakazawa	167
20.	Mr. #6	161
21.	Kenny Omega	159
22.	Shigehiro Irie	140
23.	Kazuki Hirata	119
24.	Akito	107
25.	Daisuke Sasaki	99
Total Votes:	6085

2012

Place	Wrestler	Votes
1.	Kota Ibushi	372
2.	Danshoku Dino	215
3.	HARASHIMA	203
4.	MIKAMI	198
5.	Hikaru Sato	197
6.	Shigehiro Irie	164
7.	Isami Kodaka	164
8.	Kenny Omega	147
9.	Makoto Oishi	141
10.	Kudo	141
11.	Mio Shirai	138
12.	Masa Takanashi	116
13.	Antonio Honda	116
14.	Yasu Urano	111
15.	Cherry	102
16.	Keisuke Ishii	101
17.	Konosuke Takeshita	99
18.	Soma Takao	86
19.	Sanshiro Takagi	86
20.	DJ Nira	?????
21.	Yukio Sakaguchi	?????
22.	Hiroshi Fukuda	?????
23.	El Generico	?????
24.	Michael Nakazawa	?????
25.	Yoshihiko	?????
26.	Yuji Hino	?????
27.	Akito	?????
28.	Shuji Ishikawa	?????
29.	Daisuke Sasaki	?????
30.	Mr. #6	?????
Total Votes:	3894

2013

Place	Wrestler	Votes
1.	Danshoku Dino	428
2.	Isami Kodaka	419
3.	Kota Ibushi	417
4.	HARASHIMA	344
5.	Hikaru Sato	330
6.	Makoto Oishi	225
7.	Soma Takao	221
8.	Kenny Omega	200
9.	Super Sasadango Machine	185
10.	Cherry	182
11.	Yasu Urano	174
12.	Masa Takanashi	171
13.	Konosuke Takeshita	170
14.	Kudo	158
15.	MIKAMI	156
16.	Hiroshi Fukuda	150
17.	Akito	149
18.	Keisuke Ishii	147
19.	Antonio Honda	146
20.	Shigehiro Irie	144
21.	Daisuke Sasaki	144
22.	Mio Shirai	143
23.	Yukio Sakaguchi	131
24.	Michael Nakazawa	92
25.	DJ Nira	90
26.	Yoshihiko	89
27.	Toru Owashi	51
28.	Masayuki Mitomi	51
29.	Shuji Ishikawa	45
Total Votes:	5728

2014

Wrestlers election

Place	Wrestler	Votes
1.	Kota Ibushi	693
2.	Isami Kodaka	689
3.	HARASHIMA	416
4.	Keisuke Ishii	410
5.	Danshoku Dino	366
6.	Saki Akai	303
7.	Cherry	237
8.	Soma Takao	219
9.	Akito	210
10.	Kudo	209
11.	Kazuki Hirata	207
12.	Yasu Urano	207
13.	Antonio Honda	203
14.	Konosuke Takeshita	177
15.	Masa Takanashi	176
16.	Makoto Oishi	174
17.	Yukio Sakaguchi	168
18.	Kenny Omega	158
19.	Super Sasadango Machine	158
20.	Tetsuya Endo	150
21.	MIKAMI	144
22.	Daisuke Sasaki	140
23.	Shigehiro Irie	137
24.	Shunma Katsumata	135
Total Votes:	7038

Units election

Place	Unit	Votes	Notes
1.	Smile Squash	1098	Winners
2.	Shuten-dōji	1089
3.	Team Dream Features	1086
4.	Golden☆Storm Riders	777
5.	Happy Motels	758
6.	Otoko-Kata-Shinki	602
7.	T2Hide	522
8.	Nira Federation	387
9.	Moratorium’s	252
10.	Goja★Mika	125
11.	Pigging	108	Force to Disband
Total Votes:	6804

2015

Wrestlers election

Place	Wrestler	Votes
1.	Isami Kodaka	1244
2.	Kota Ibushi	862
3.	HARASHIMA	642
4.	Ken Ohka	442
5.	Danshoku Dino	395
6.	Cherry	368
7.	Masa Takanashi	356
8.	Keisuke Ishii	343
9.	Daisuke Sasaki	333
10.	Makoto Oishi	285
11.	Saki Akai	269
12.	Soma Takao	267
13.	Akito	264
14.	Super Sasadango Machine	263
14.	Ai Shimizu	263
15.	Antonio Honda	235
16.	Yukio Sakaguchi	233
17.	Kazuki Hirata	215
18.	Yasu Urano	212
19.	Yuka Sakazaki	211
20.	Shunma Katsumata	182
21.	Tetsuya Endo	178
22.	Shoko Nakajima	176
23.	Konosuke Takeshita	165
24.	Shigehiro Irie	161
25.	Hiroshi Fukuda	153
Total Votes:	10388

Units election

Place	Unit	Votes	Notes
1.	#OhkaTeikoku	2563	Winner
2.	Shuten-dōji	1643
3.	Smile Squash	1238
4.	Golden☆Storm Riders	1165
5.	Team Dream Features	1088
6.	Happy Motels	1030
7.	T2Hide	575
8.	KAT-TOO	554
9.	Pigging 2015	192	Force to Disband
Total Votes:	10048

2016

Wrestlers election

Place	Wrestler	Votes
1.	HARASHIMA	906
2.	Danshoku Dino	897
3.	Daisuke Sasaki	537
4.	Masahiro Takanashi	359
5.	Tetsuya Endo	350
6.	Konosuke Takeshita	347
7.	Soma Takao	300
8.	Kudo	275
9.	Saki Akai	273
10.	Akito	272
11.	Shunma Katsumata	266
12.	Antonio Honda	264
13.	Keisuke Ishii	255
14.	Kazuki Hirata	240
15.	Yukio Sakaguchi	239
16.	Ken Ohka	230
17.	Makoto Oishi	225
18.	Super Sasadango Machine	209
19.	Yasu Urano	206
20.	Cherry	186
21.	MAO	183
21.	Toru Owashi	183
22.	Kazusada Higuchi	174
23.	Yuko Miyamoto	134
24.	Mad Paulie	111
25.	Mizuki Watase	96
26.	Rekka	72
27.	Yoshihiko	71
Total Votes:	8240

Units election

Place	Unit	Votes	Notes
1.	DAMNATION	1697	Winner
2.	Shuten-dōji	1398
3.	Smile Squash	1293
4.	NωA	1038
5.	T2Hide	699
6.	Happy Motels	621
7.	Fantastic Memories	617
8.	Bad Comi	519
9.	Pigging 2016	185	Force to Disband
Total Votes:	8067

2017

Wrestlers election

Place	Wrestler	Votes
1.	Danshoku Dino	587
2.	HARASHIMA	566
3.	Daisuke Sasaki	501
4.	Masahiro Takanashi	470
5.	Soma Takao	330
6.	Konosuke Takeshita	285
7.	Akito	261
8.	Saki Akai	227
9.	Makoto Oishi	197
10.	Kudo	176
11.	Shunma Katsumata	174
12.	Keisuke Ishii	173
13.	MAO	162
14.	Toru Owashi	158
15.	Ken Ohka	152
16.	Cherry	150
17.	Antonio Honda	149
18.	Yukio Sakaguchi	147
19.	Kazuki Hirata	141
20.	Kazusada Higuchi	135
21.	Super Sasadango Machine	110
22.	Kouki Iwasaki	108
23.	Yuki Ueno	95
24.	Yuni	84
25.	Rekka	74
26.	Diego	71
27.	Yoshihiko	71
28.	Nobuhiro Shimatani	50
29.	Gota Ihashi	50
Total Votes:	6251

Units election

Place	Unit	Votes	Notes
1.	DAMNATION	1149	Winner
2.	#OhkaTeikokuReturns	1065
3.	Shuten-dōji	929
4.	Smile Squash	786
5.	NωA	656
6.	Yaroz	512
7.	ALL OUT	465
8.	T2Hide	296
9.	Super DNA Revolution	213
10.	Pigging 2017	116	Force to Disband
Total Votes:	6006

2018

Wrestlers election

Place	Wrestler	Votes
1.	Masahiro Takanashi	1963
2.	Akito	1669
3.	Maki Ito	1412
4.	HARASHIMA	907
5.	Daisuke Sasaki	853
6.	Tetsuya Endo	605
7.	Danshoku Dino	547
8.	Soma Takao	438
9.	MAO	430
10.	Keisuke Ishii	387
11.	Yumehito Imanari	337
12.	Antonio Honda	374
13.	Konosuke Takeshita	350
14.	Saki Akai	328
15.	Kudo	304
16.	Shunma Katsumata	272
17.	Kazusada Higuchi	257
18.	Kazuki Hirata	246
19.	Toru Owashi	243
20.	Jun Kasai	239
21.	Mizuki Watase	238
22.	Gota Ihashi	231
23.	Makoto Oishi	224
24.	Yuki Ueno	200
25.	Super Sasadango Machine	189
26.	Yukio Sakaguchi	178
27.	Tanomusaku Toba	133
28.	Yuki Iino	83
Total Votes:	13677

Units election

Place	Unit	Votes	Notes
1.	Shuten-dōji	3663	Winner
2.	DAMNATION	3119
3.	ALL OUT	2595
4.	The Compliance	1756
5.	Disaster Box	1515
6.	Moonlight Express	863
7.	BOOing 2018	536	Force to Disband
Total Votes:	14074