Edward Espenett Case is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he has served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district since 2019,which covers the urban core of Honolulu. He represented the 2nd district,which covers the rest of the state,from 2002 to 2007.
Hiram Leong Fong was an American businessman,lawyer,and politician from Hawaii. Born to a Cantonese immigrant sugar plantation worker,Fong was one of the first two senators for Hawaii after it became the 50th US state in 1959. He was the first Chinese-American and first Asian-American United States Senator,serving from 1959 to 1977,and to date he remains to be the only Republican Senator from Hawaii.
Mazie Keiko Hirono is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Hawaii. A member of the Democratic Party,Hirono previously served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2007 to 2013. Hirono also served as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1981 to 1995 and as Hawaii's tenth lieutenant governor from 1994 to 2002,under Ben Cayetano. She was the Democratic nominee for governor of Hawaii in 2002,but lost to Republican Linda Lingle.
Gerald Michael Gabbard is an American politician,serving as the Hawaii State Senator for District 21 from the Democratic party,since 2006. Gabbard rose to prominence for efforts to prevent same-sex marriage in Hawaii by passing a 1998 amendment to the Constitution of Hawaii to give the state legislature "the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples" under the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Gabbard,who was born in American Samoa,is the first person of Samoan descent to serve in the Hawaii Senate.
The Hawaii Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party (GOP) in Hawaii,headquartered in Honolulu. The party was strong during Hawaii's territorial days,but following the Hawaii Democratic Revolution of 1954 the Democratic Party came to dominate Hawaii. The party currently has little power and is the weakest state affiliate of the national Republican Party;it controls none of Hawaii's statewide or federal elected offices and has the least presence in the state legislature of any state Republican party.
Clayton H. W. Hee is a former Democratic Party member of the Hawaii Senate who represented the 23rd District from 2004 to 2014 and 1984 to 1988. Hee served as chairman of the state senate's Judiciary and Labor Committee.
Charles Kong Djou is an American politician and attorney who is currently Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission. A former member of the Republican Party,Djou briefly served as U.S. representative from Hawaii's 1st congressional district from May 2010 to January 2011. As of 2024,he is the last Republican to represent Hawaii in Congress.
Brian Emanuel Schatz is an American educator and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Hawaii,a seat he has held since 2012. A member of the Democratic Party,Schatz served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1998 to 2006,representing the 25th legislative district;as the chairman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii from 2008 to 2010;and as the 12th lieutenant governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2012.
Hawaii's 2012 general elections were held on November 6,2012. Primary elections were held on August 11,2012.
Will Espero is an American politician who served as a state senator for the 19th district of the State of Hawaiʻi from 2002 until 2018. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Robert Charles McDermott is an American politician and Republican former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives who served from 1996 to 2002 and 2012 to 2022.
Sharon E. Har is an American politician. She served as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives for District 42 from January 16,2013 to November 8,2022 for the Democratic Party. She was succeeded by Diamond Garcia (R). Har served consecutively from January 2007 to January 2013 in the District 40 seat.
Rida T.R. Cabanilla Arakawa is an American politician who has served as a Democratic member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2018 to 2020,representing District 41. Cabanilla also formerly represented District 41 in the House from 2012 to 2014 and District 42 from 2004 to 2012.
Matthew S. LoPresti is an American politician who served as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives for District 41. He previously served from January 2015 to January 2019. He was a candidate for state Senate 19th district in 2018.
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.
Asian Americans and Pacific Islands Americans have given fluctuating levels of support to conservative movements and political parties in the United States,particularly the Republican Party. Many Republican Party members with these origins have obtained posts as elected representatives and political appointments as office holders.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii were held on November 3,2020,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 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The state's primary elections were held on August 8,2020.
The 2022 Hawaii House of Representatives elections were held on Tuesday,November 8,as part of the biennial 2022 United States elections. The process elected all 51 seats in the Hawaii House of Representatives.
Natalia Hussey-Burdick is an American politician and activist who was elected to succeed Patrick Branco as State Representative for District 50 in the Hawaii House of Representatives during the state's 2022 General Election. She lost reelection in 2024 in the primary against challenger Mike Lee.
David Augustine Alcos III is an American politician from the Hawaii Republican Party. He was first elected in 2022 to the Hawaii State House of Representatives from District 41.
