Daniel Kahikina Akaka was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1990 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party,Akaka was the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry.
Muliufi Francis Hannemann is an American politician,businessman,and non-profit executive. He was elected twice as Mayor of Honolulu in 2004 and 2008. Hannemann has served as a special assistant in Washington,D.C.,with the Department of the Interior,where he was selected for a White House fellowship in the Reagan administration under Vice President George H. W. Bush. He also served as chairman of the Honolulu City Council. He is the first person of Samoan descent and the second member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to serve as Mayor of Honolulu.
Romeo Munoz Cachola,commonly known as Romy Cachola,is a Democratic politician from the state of Hawaii and former member of the Hawaii State House of Representatives,representing House District 30 since 2012. He formerly served in the Hawaii State House of Representatives from 1984 to 1992 and 1998 to 2000. An immigrant from the Philippines,Cachola became one of the first Filipino Americans to be elected to the Honolulu City Council since statehood in 1959.
Barbara Novak Marshall was an American television broadcast journalist and politician. She was elected three times to the Honolulu City Council in Honolulu,Hawaii following her retirement from broadcasting.
Charles Kong Djou is an American politician who served as U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district from 2010 to 2011. Djou won his House seat in a May 2010 special election. He was defeated in the November general election after the Democratic primary provided a single opponent. He ran for but did not win his old House seat again in 2012 and 2014. Djou,who previously served in the Hawaii House of Representatives and on the Honolulu City Council,was the first Thai American of any party and the first Chinese American Republican to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. In June 2016,he entered the race for mayor of Honolulu,which he lost,48% to 52%,to incumbent Kirk Caldwell. As of 2023,Djou was the last Republican to have represented Hawaii in Congress. He left the Republican Party in 2018 and in 2020 endorsed Joe Biden for president. After Biden won the presidency,he appointed Djou to be Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Whitney T. Anderson was an American politician and businessman from Waimanalo,Hawaii. He is the younger brother of D.G. "Andy" Anderson.
Colleen Wakako Hanabusa is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2015 and again from 2016 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,she ran for her party's nomination for governor of Hawaii in 2018,challenging and losing to incumbent and fellow Democrat David Ige.
Ann Kobayashi is an American politician and businesswoman from Honolulu,Hawaii. She is a member of the Honolulu City Council,representing District 5 since 2009. She previously held the same City Council seat between 2002 and 2008,but resigned from the seat to unsuccessfully run for Mayor of Honolulu against incumbent Mufi Hannemann. She was also a member of the Hawaii Senate between 1981 and 1994.
Kymberly Marcos Pine is an American politician and Democrat who served two terms on the Honolulu City Council representing District 1 from 2013 to 2021. She was the Chair of the Council Committee on Business,Economic Development and Tourism. Prior to being elected to the City Council,she served as a Representative to the State House of Representatives for four terms. On October 28,2019,Pine announced her candidacy for Mayor of Honolulu.
The 2010 Honolulu special mayoral election was held on September 18,2010. The election coincided with Hawaii's primary election. The winner of the election,Peter Carlisle,filled the unexpired term of former Democratic Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann,who resigned on July 20,2010 to run in the 2010 election for Governor of Hawaii.
The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii were held on Tuesday,November 4,2014 to elect the two U.S. representatives from the state of Hawaii,one from each of the state's two congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including an election for Governor of Hawaii and a special election to the United States Senate.
Stanley Chang is a Democratic member of the Hawaii State Senate,representing the 9th district. Before entering the legislature,he served as a Honolulu city councilman. He defeated Sam Slom,the last remaining Republican in the Hawaii State Senate,in 2016. Chang faced Slom a second time in 2020,and won reelection.
Donna Mercado Kim is an American Democratic party politician from Hawaii. She is a state senator from Senate District 14 and was President of the Hawaiʻi Senate for almost three years.
Kyle Mark Takai was an American politician from the state of Hawaii who served in the United States House of Representatives,representing Hawaii's 1st congressional district,from 2015 to 2016. He served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1994 to 2014.
Jose Maria Brias "Joey" Manahan is a Filipino American politician from the state of Hawaii. Joey Manahan is a former member of the Honolulu City Council and served as the Chair of the Budget Committee and Vice-Chair of the Transportation Committee.
John Stanley Carroll was an American lawyer and politician who served as a state representative and state senator from Hawaii as a Republican. He was also a perennial candidate for multiple statewide offices in Hawaii.
The 2016 Honolulu mayoral election determined the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu for the full term commencing in January 2017. As in the previous several elections,Skyline and its cost overruns was a major topic of the campaign.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii were held on Tuesday,November 6,2018,to elect the two U.S. representatives from the U.S. state of Hawaii;one from each of the state's two congressional districts. Primaries were held on August 11,2018. The elections and primaries coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices.
The 2022 Hawaii gubernatorial election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the next governor of Hawaii. Incumbent Democratic Governor David Ige was term-limited and ineligible to run for a third term. Incumbent lieutenant governor Josh Green was the Democratic nominee,and faced former lieutenant governor Duke Aiona,the Republican nominee. This marked the third time Aiona had been the Republican gubernatorial nominee,having previously run unsuccessfully in 2010 and 2014. Green won the election with 63.2% of the vote with Aiona receiving 36.8% of the vote.
The 2020 Honolulu mayoral election determined the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu for the term commencing in January 2021. Incumbent mayor Kirk Caldwell is ineligible to run for a third term due to term limits.
