United States presidential elections in Hawaii

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Presidential elections in Hawaii
Hawaii in United States (zoom).svg
Number of elections17
Voted Democratic15
Voted Republican2
Voted other0
Voted for winning candidate10
Voted for losing candidate7

Hawaii is a state in the Western United States located in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometres) from the U.S. mainland. [1] Since its admission to the Union in August 1959, [2] [3] it has participated in 16 United States presidential elections. In the 1960 presidential election, Hawaii was narrowly won by the Democratic Party's candidate John F. Kennedy, defeating the Republican Party's candidate and incumbent vice president Richard Nixon by a margin of just 0.06% (115 votes). [4] [5] In the 1964 presidential election, the Democratic Party's candidate Lyndon B. Johnson won Hawaii by a margin of 57.52%, [6] which remains the largest ever margin of victory in the state's history. Since the 1960 election, Hawaii has been won by the Democratic Party in every presidential election, except in 1972 and 1984, which were both won in a national Republican landslide victory by Nixon and Ronald Reagan respectively. [7] [8]

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In the 1992 presidential election, the independent candidate Ross Perot received the highest percentage of vote share (14.22%) [9] ever won by a third-party candidate in Hawaii. In the 2016 presidential election, a faithless elector [a] pledged to the Democratic Party instead voted for Bernie Sanders for president and Elizabeth Warren for vice president. [11] Subsequently, the Democratic ticket of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine received only three electoral votes from Hawaii. [12] Gallup Poll has ranked Hawaii in the top ten most Democratic states. [13] As of 2020, no Republican has ever carried the state in two consecutive elections since Nixon and Reagan only won it in their 1972 and 1984 re-election bids, Democrats, however have carried the state in consecutive elections.

Hawaii is a signatory of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an interstate compact in which signatories award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national-level popular vote in a presidential election, even if another candidate won an individual signatory's popular vote. As of 2021, it has not yet gone into force. [14]

Presidential elections

Key for parties
   American Independent Party – (AI)
   Democratic Party – (D)
   Green Party – (G)
   Independent candidate – (I)
   Libertarian Party – (LI)
   Reform Party – (RE)
   Republican Party – (R)
Note– A double dagger (‡) indicates the national winner.
Presidential elections in Hawaii from 1960 to present
YearWinnerRunner-upOther candidate [b] EVRef.
CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%
John F. Kennedy (D)‡92,410 Richard Nixon (R)92,295
–
–
–
3
Lyndon B. Johnson (D)‡163,249 Barry Goldwater (R)44,022
–
–
–
4
Hubert Humphrey (D)141,324 Richard Nixon (R)‡91,425 George Wallace (AI)3,4694
Richard Nixon (R)‡168,865 George McGovern (D)101,409
–
–
–
4
Jimmy Carter (D)‡147,375 Gerald Ford (R)140,003 Roger MacBride (LI)3,9234
Jimmy Carter (D)135,879 Ronald Reagan (R)‡130,112 John B. Anderson (I)32,0214
Ronald Reagan (R)‡185,050 Walter Mondale (D)147,154 David Bergland (LI)2,1674
Michael Dukakis (D)192,364 George H. W. Bush (R)‡158,625 Ron Paul (LI)1,9994
Bill Clinton (D)‡179,310 George H. W. Bush (R)136,822 Ross Perot (I)53,0034
Bill Clinton (D)‡205,012 Bob Dole (R)113,943 Ross Perot (RE)27,3584
Al Gore (D)205,286 George W. Bush (R)‡137,845 Ralph Nader (G)21,6234
John Kerry (D)231,708 George W. Bush (R)‡194,191 David Cobb (G)1,7374
Barack Obama (D)‡325,871 John McCain (R)120,566 Ralph Nader (I)3,8254
Barack Obama (D)‡306,658 Mitt Romney (R)121,015 Gary Johnson (LI)3,8404
Hillary Clinton (D)266,891 Donald Trump (R)‡128,847 Gary Johnson (LI)15,9544 [c]
Joe Biden (D)‡366,130 Donald Trump (R)196,864 Jo Jorgensen (LI)5,5394
Kamala Harris (D)313,044 Donald Trump (R)‡193,661 Jill Stein (G)4,3874

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Notes

  1. ↑ In the United States Electoral College, a faithless elector is one who does not vote for the candidate the elector had pledged to vote, instead voting for another person for president or/and vice president. [10]
  2. ↑ For purposes of these lists, other candidates are defined as those who were in third place in Hawaii.
  3. ↑ A faithless Democratic elector voted for Bernie Sanders for president and Elizabeth Warren for vice president. [11]

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