Edward Espenett Case is an American lawyer and Democratic politician. Since 2019,he has served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district,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 became the first Chinese-American and first Asian-American United States Senator,serving from 1959 to 1977.
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.
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.
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.
The politics of the U.S. state of Hawaii typically take place within the framework of a Democrat-dominated government. The Democratic Party in Hawaii was formed in 1900,by supporters of Queen Liliʻuokalani. For the first half of the twentieth century,the Republican Party ruled comfortably,dominating local politics until the end of World War II. After the war,Honolulu police officer John A. Burns began organizing plantation laborers,including many Japanese Americans and Filipino Americans and built a coalition that gradually strengthened the Democratic Party in Hawaii. This culminated in the Hawaii Democratic Revolution of 1954,after which Republican political influence in the islands was greatly diminished.
Cynthia Henry Thielen is an American politician who served as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives representing District 50,the Kailua and Kaneohe Bay areas of Oahu County. A Republican,she served in the state House of Representatives from 1990 until 2020. She served as minority floor leader from 1992 to 1997 and was the assistant minority leader at the time of her retirement.
The South Dakota Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The party currently has very weak electoral power in the state,controlling none of South Dakota's statewide or federal elected offices.
The 2010 Hawaii gubernatorial election was held on November 2,2010,to elect the next Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii. Incumbent Republican Governor Linda Lingle was term-limited and not eligible to run for re-election. The Democratic Party nominated Neil Abercrombie,and the Republican Party nominated incumbent Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona. In the election,Abercrombie won and was sworn in as the state's 7th Governor on December 6,2010. Aiona later unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Hawaii in 2014 and 2022.
The 1994 United States elections were held on November 8,1994. The elections occurred in the middle of Democratic President Bill Clinton's first term in office,and elected the members of 104th United States Congress. The elections have been described as the "Republican Revolution" because the Republican Party captured unified control of Congress for the first time since 1952. Republicans picked up eight seats in the Senate and won a net of 54 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans also picked up a net of ten governorships and took control of many state legislative chambers.
The 2010 special election for the 1st congressional district of Hawaii was a special election to the United States House of Representatives that took place to fill the vacancy caused by Representative Neil Abercrombie's resignation on February 28,2010 to focus on his campaign for Governor of Hawaii in the 2010 gubernatorial election. Abercrombie planned not to run for re-election in 2010,and many of the candidates that were running for his open seat transferred to the special election. The election was held on May 22,2010 and Republican Charles Djou won,defeating five Democrats,four fellow Republicans,and four Independent candidates. The main reason for his win was because there were two Democratic candidates instead of one,which split the votes,allowing Djou to win,as Hawaii is an overwhelmingly Democratic state. Djou became the first Republican elected to Congress from Hawaii since Pat Saiki in 1988;Djou volunteered on Saiki's 1988 campaign,and Saiki served as Djou's campaign chair in 2010. As of 2022,this was the last time in which a Republican was elected to Congress from Hawaii.
Beth Keiko Fukumoto is an American politician who served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018,representing District 36.
The 2018 Hawaii gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the Governor of Hawaii and Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii.
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 2018 Hawaii House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Hawaii voters elected state representatives in all 51 state house districts. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Hawaii House of Representatives.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii were held on November 8,2022,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 other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
The 2020 Hawaii House of Representatives elections took place on November 3,2020,as part of the biennial 2020 United States elections. The process will elect all 51 seats in the Hawaii House of Representatives. Primary elections took place on August 8.
The 2022 elections for the Illinois Senate occurred on November 8,2022 to elect Senators from all of the state's 59 Legislative districts in the Illinois Senate. The primary election took place on Tuesday,June 28,2022. The winners of this election will serve in the 103rd General Assembly with seats apportioned among the state based on the 2020 United States census. Under the Illinois Constitution of 1970,senators are divided into three groups with each group having a two-year term at a different part of the decade between censuses,with the rest of the decade being taken up by two four-year terms. The Democratic Party has held a majority in the Senate since 2003. The inauguration of the 103rd General Assembly occurred on Wednesday,January 11,2023.
The 2022 Hawaii House of Representatives elections was 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.
