Hawaii is holding main elections on Saturday. Hawaii holds its elections nearly solely by mail, and the final in-person voting websites shut at 7 p.m. native time, or 1 a.m. ET.
Congress
There will be not less than one new face within the Aloha State’s solidly Democratic congressional delegation subsequent yr.
Freshman Democratic Rep. Kai Kahele in April told management he was operating for governor fairly than reelection, becoming a member of a slew of others seeking to succeed term-limited incumbent Democratic Gov. David Ige. The half-dozen Democratic candidates vying to fill Kahele’s open seat embody Hawaii state consultant David Branco, former Hawaii state senator Jill Tokuda, in addition to first-time candidates Nicole Gi, Brendan Schultz, Steven Sparks, and Kyle Yoshida.
5-term Democratic Rep. Ed. Case is being challenged by lawyer Sergio Aclubilla. Case bought 72% of the vote in 2020.
Throughout the Capitol, two-term Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz is being challenged by returning congressional hopeful Stave Tatali, who bought lower than 1% of the vote when he ran for a Home seat in 2016 and filed to run for Senate in 2012 however did not seem on the licensed candidate checklist of the first poll. Schatz bought 74% of the vote in 2016.
Governor and lieutenant governor
The main contenders within the race to switch incumbent Democratic Gov. David Ige embody incumbent Lt. Gov. Joshua Inexperienced, single-term Democratic Rep. Kai Kahele, and first-time candidate Vicky Cayetano, a profitable businessman who can also be married to former Gov. Ben Cayetano.
The half-dozen Democratic candidates vying to fill the emptiness left by Inexperienced getting into the governor’s race embody Hawaii state consultant Sylvia Luke, former Honolulu metropolis councilman Ikaika Anderson, failed 2018 Home hopeful Sam Puletasi, together with first-time candidates Keith Amemiya, Daniel Cunningham, and Sherry Menor-McNamara.
Democrats have retained unified management of the state authorities since 2011.
State legislative primaries
