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Last updated: Oct. 16, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Hawaii within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include office for one U.S. Senator, two U.S. Representatives, four seats on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs board, 51 state Representatives, and 13state Senators. Additionally, there are two statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Hawaii. On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Hawaii
- The elected offices that Hawaii voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Hawaii that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Hawaii will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Hawaii's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Hawaii
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in Hawaii
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Hawaii
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Hawaii
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Hawaii elections, 2024
Hawaii voters will elect one U.S. Senator. An incumbent is running for this seat.
Hawaii voters will elect two U.S. Representatives. Incumbents are running in both districts.
Four seats for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs board are up for election. Three seats are held by incumbents, and one seat is open.
Fifty-one seats in the state House are up for election. Only 35 will be on the November ballot as 16 were canceled due to candidates running unopposed. Thirteen seats in the state Senate are up for a regularly scheduled election. Only eight will be on the November ballot, as five were canceled due to candidates running unopposed. One seat in the state Senate is up for a special election.
Hawaii voters will decide on a pair of ballot measures.
Municipal elections will be held in Honolulu for mayor and city attorney. Honolulu is one of 82 cities included in Ballotpedia's coverage of municipal elections.
Below is a list of Hawaii elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Hawaii elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | ✓ | Click here |
| State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| State House | ✓ | Click here |
| Special state legislative | ✓ | Click here |
| State Supreme Court | — | — |
| Intermediate appellate courts | — | — |
| School boards | — | — |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | — | — |
| Ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
| Local ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Oct 16, Ballotpedia has not identified any elections as noteworthy.
Ballot measures
- See also: Hawaii 2024 ballot measures
There are two statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Hawaii.
| Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judicial Appointments and Confirmations Amendment | Change the process for appointing and confirming district court judges to be the same as that used for supreme court justices and other higher court judges |
|
316,468 (71%) |
131,729 (29%) |
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| Remove Legislature Authority to Limit Marriage to Opposite-Sex Couples Amendment | Remove provision of the constitution saying that "the legislature shall have the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples" |
|
268,038 (56%) |
211,142 (44%) |
From 1996 to 2022, 36 ballot measures were on the ballot in Hawaii. Voters approved 23 measures and defeated 13.
State analysis
Partisan balance
Democrats represent all two districts in Hawaii's U.S. House delegation. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Both of Hawaii's U.S. Senators—Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz—are Democrats. Democrats have a majority in the U.S. Senate. There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes.
Democrats have a 23-2 majority in the state Senate and an 45-6 majority in the state House. Democrats have held a majority in the state House since statehood in 1959 and the state Senate since 1963.
Because the governor is a Democrat, Hawaii is one of 17 states with a Democratic trifecta. It has held this status since 2011, when Neil Abercrombie (D) took office as governor. Hawaii's attorney general and secretary of state are Democrats. This makes Hawaii one of 20 states with Democratic triplexes. It has held this status since 2011.
Past presidential election results in Hawaii
- See also: Presidential election in Hawaii, 2024
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 100.0% of Hawaii residents lived in one of the state's four Solid Democratic counties, which voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020. Overall, Hawaii was Solid Democratic, having voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2012, Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016, and Joe Biden (D) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Hawaii following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Hawaii county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Democratic | 4 | 100.% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 4 | 100.% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 0 | 0.0% | |||||
State legislative competitiveness
According to Ballotpedia's annual state legislative competitiveness report, Hawaii had a Competitiveness Index of 35.8, ranking it 21st of the 44 states that held elections.
- Five of the 63 seats up for election were open (8%).
- 19 of the 58 incumbents who ran for re-election faced contested primaries (33%).
- 42 of the 63 seats up for election were contested by both major parties (67%).
2010-2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Hawaii, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 12.1% | 41.4% | 90.9% | 48.1 | 5 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 10.5% | 36.6% | 61.8% | 36.3 | 22 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 7.9% | 34.5% | 68.3% | 36.9 | 10 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 4.7% | 39.3% | 48.4% | 30.8 | 23 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 14.3% | 42.6% | 31.7% | 29.5 | 31 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 12.5% | 35.7% | 51.6% | 33.3 | 20 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 19.7% | 39.7% | 80.3% | 46.6 | 8 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 7.9% | 32.8% | 66.7% | 35.8 | 21 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
In 2024
Hover over column headings to learn more about their contents. Click on headings for more state-specific information.
| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Hawaii, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
| House | 7.8% | 38.3% | 66.7% | 37.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | 8.3% | 9.1% | 66.7% | 28.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 7.9% | 32.8% | 66.7% | 35.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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See also
Footnotes
