United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, 2018
- General election: Nov. 6
- Voter registration deadline: Oct. 9
- Early voting: Oct. 23 - Nov. 3
- Absentee voting deadline: Nov. 6
- Online registration: Yes
- Same-day registration: Yes
- Voter ID: Non-photo ID
- Poll times: 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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The 2018 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Hawaii took place on November 6, 2018. Voters elected two candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's two congressional districts.
Partisan breakdown
Heading into the November 6 election, the Democratic Party held both of the two congressional seats from Hawaii.
| Members of the U.S. House from Hawaii -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2018 | After the 2018 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 2 | 2 | |
| Republican Party | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 2 | 2 | |
Incumbents
Heading into the 2018 election, the incumbents for the two congressional districts were:
| Name | Party | District |
|---|---|---|
| Colleen Hanabusa |  Democratic |
1 |
| Tulsi Gabbard | Democratic |
2 |
Candidates
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District 1
General election
General election candidates
- Ed Case (Democratic Party) ✔
- Cam Cavasso (Republican Party)
- Zachary Burd (Green Party)
- Michelle Rose Tippens (Libertarian Party)
- Calvin Griffin (Nonpartisan)
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
Green Party
Libertarians
Nonpartisan
District 2
General election
General election candidates
- Tulsi Gabbard (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Brian Evans (Republican Party)
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Tulsi Gabbard (Incumbent) ✔
- Anthony Tony Austin
- Sherry Alu Campagna
Did not make the ballot:
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Republican primary candidates
Wave election analysis
- See also: Wave elections (1918-2016)
The term wave election is frequently used to describe an election cycle in which one party makes significant electoral gains. How many seats would Republicans have had to lose for the 2018 midterm election to be considered a wave election?
Ballotpedia examined the results of the 50 election cycles that occurred between 1918 and 2016—spanning from President Woodrow Wilson's (D) second midterm in 1918 to Donald Trump's (R) first presidential election in 2016. We define wave elections as the 20 percent of elections in that period resulting in the greatest seat swings against the president's party.
Applying this definition to U.S. House elections, we found that Republicans needed to lose 48 seats for 2018 to qualify as a wave election.
The chart below shows the number of seats the president's party lost in the 11 U.S. House waves from 1918 to 2016. Click here to read the full report.
| U.S. House wave elections | ||||||
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| Year | President | Party | Election type | House seats change | House majority[4] | |
| 1932 | Hoover | R | Presidential | -97 | D | |
| 1922 | Harding | R | First midterm | -76 | R | |
| 1938 | Roosevelt | D | Second midterm | -70 | D | |
| 2010 | Obama | D | First midterm | -63 | R (flipped) | |
| 1920 | Wilson | D | Presidential | -59 | R | |
| 1946 | Truman | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped) | |
| 1994 | Clinton | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped) | |
| 1930 | Hoover | R | First midterm | -53 | D (flipped) | |
| 1942 | Roosevelt | D | Third midterm | -50 | D | |
| 1966 | Johnson | D | First midterm[5] | -48 | D | |
| 1974 | Ford | R | Second midterm[6] | -48 | D | |
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2018
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2018
- U.S. House primaries, 2018
Footnotes
- ↑ 'Ballotpedia editor, "Email communication with Zachary Burd," January 16, 2018
- ↑ Hawai'i Pacific University, "HAWAII CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 1 CANDIDATE FORUM – MARCH 19, 2018," March 19, 2018
- ↑ Hawaii Office of Elections, "2018 Candidate Filing Report," accessed April 2, 2018
- ↑ Denotes the party that had more seats in the U.S. House following the election.
- ↑ Lyndon Johnson's (D) first term began in November 1963 after the death of President John F. Kennedy (D), who was first elected in 1960. Before Johnson had his first midterm in 1966, he was re-elected president in 1964.
- ↑ Gerald Ford's (R) first term began in August 1974 following the resignation of President Richard Nixon (R), who was first elected in 1968 and was re-elected in 1972. Because Ford only served for two full months before facing the electorate, this election is classified as Nixon's second midterm.
