{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-hi",
  "name": "Hawaii",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/hi",
  "slug": "hi",
  "state": "hi",
  "state_name": "Hawaii",
  "state_id": "us-hi"
 },
 "question": "How did Hawaii vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Mazie K. Hirono (Democrat) won by 32.7 points",
  "value": 32.7,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Mazie K. Hirono (Democrat) 64.6%, Bob Mcdermott (Republican) 31.9%, Shelby Pikachu Billionaire (Independent) 1.8%",
   "501,763 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Hawaii since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 17 and Republicans in 0.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       13.102,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       59.519,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       63.09,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       47.134,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       55.871,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       30.341,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       47.595,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       61.359,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       48.178,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       54.522,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       24.569,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       53.238,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       25.204,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       51.361,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       42.302,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       45.103,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       32.708,
       "dem"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 302092,
    "votes": {
     "Spark M. Matsunaga": 162305,
     "William Quinn": 122724,
     "Anthony N. Hodges": 14226,
     "James D. Kimmel": 1433,
     "Rockne Johnson": 1404
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 288006,
    "votes": {
     "Daniel K. Inouye": 224485,
     "Cooper Brown": 53068,
     "Bud Shasteen": 10453
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 306410,
    "votes": {
     "Spark Matsunaga": 245386,
     "Clarence J. Brown": 52071,
     "E. Floyd Bernier-nachtwey": 8953
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 328797,
    "votes": {
     "Daniel K. Inouye": 241887,
     "Frank Hutchinson": 86910
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 323876,
    "votes": {
     "Spark Matsunaga": 247941,
     "Maria M. Hustace": 66987,
     "Ken Schoolland": 8948
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 349666,
    "votes": {
     "Daniel K. Akaka": 188901,
     "Patricia F. Saiki": 155978,
     "Ken Schoolland": 4787
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 363662,
    "votes": {
     "Daniel K. Inouye": 208266,
     "Rick Reed": 97928,
     "Linda B. Martin": 49921,
     "Richard O. Rowland": 7547
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 356902,
    "votes": {
     "Daniel K. Akaka": 256189,
     "Maria M. Hustace": 86320,
     "Richard (dick) Rowland": 14393
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 398124,
    "votes": {
     "Daniel K. Inouye": 315252,
     "Crystal Young": 70964,
     "Lloyd (jeff) Mallan": 11908
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 345623,
    "votes": {
     "Daniel K. Akaka": 251215,
     "John Carroll": 84701,
     "Lauri A. Clegg": 4220,
     "Lloyd Jeffrey Mallan": 3127,
     "David Porter": 2360
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 415347,
    "votes": {
     "Daniel K. Inouye": 313629,
     "Cam Cavasso": 87172,
     "Jim Brewer": 9269,
     "Jeff Mallan": 5277
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 342842,
    "votes": {
     "Daniel K. Akaka": 210330,
     "Cynthia Thielen": 126097,
     "Lloyd Jeffrey Mallan": 6415
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 370583,
    "votes": {
     "Daniel K. Inouye": 277228,
     "Cam Cavasso": 79939,
     "Jim Brewer": 7762,
     "Lloyd Jeffrey Mallan": 2957,
     "Jeff Farrett": 2697
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 430483,
    "votes": {
     "Mazie K. Hirono": 269489,
     "Linda Lingle": 160994
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 353774,
    "votes": {
     "Brian Schatz": 246827,
     "Cam Cavasso": 98006,
     "Michael Kokoski": 8941
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 416562,
    "votes": {
     "Brian Schatz": 306604,
     "John Carroll": 92653,
     "Joy J. Allison": 9103,
     "Michael A. Kokoski": 6809,
     "John M. \"raghu\" Giuffre": 1393
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 388351,
    "votes": {
     "Mazie K. Hirono": 276316,
     "Ron Curtis": 112035
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 409148,
    "votes": {
     "Brian Schatz": 290894,
     "Bob Mcdermott": 106358,
     "Feena M. Bonoan": 4916,
     "Emma Jane A. Pohlman": 4141,
     "Dan Decker": 2208,
     "Over Votes": 631
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 501763,
    "votes": {
     "Mazie K. Hirono": 324194,
     "Bob Mcdermott": 160075,
     "Shelby Pikachu Billionaire": 9224,
     "Emma Jane Avila Pohlman": 8270
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Mazie K. Hirono (D) 64.6%",
    "Bob Mcdermott (R) 31.9%",
    "32.7 pts",
    "501,763"
   ],
   [
    "2022",
    "Brian Schatz (D) 71.1%",
    "Bob Mcdermott (R) 26.0%",
    "45.1 pts",
    "409,148"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Mazie K. Hirono (D) 71.2%",
    "Ron Curtis (R) 28.8%",
    "42.3 pts",
    "388,351"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "Brian Schatz (D) 73.6%",
    "John Carroll (R) 22.2%",
    "51.4 pts",
    "416,562"
   ],
   [
    "2014 special",
    "Brian Schatz (D) 69.8%",
    "Cam Cavasso (R) 27.7%",
    "42.1 pts",
    "353,774"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Mazie K. Hirono (D) 62.6%",
    "Linda Lingle (R) 37.4%",
    "25.2 pts",
    "430,483"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Daniel K. Inouye (D) 74.8%",
    "Cam Cavasso (R) 21.6%",
    "53.2 pts",
    "370,583"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Daniel K. Akaka (D) 61.3%",
    "Cynthia Thielen (R) 36.8%",
    "24.6 pts",
    "342,842"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Daniel K. Inouye (D) 75.5%",
    "Cam Cavasso (R) 21.0%",
    "54.5 pts",
    "415,347"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Daniel K. Akaka (D) 72.7%",
    "John Carroll (R) 24.5%",
    "48.2 pts",
    "345,623"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Daniel K. Inouye (D) 79.2%",
    "Crystal Young (R) 17.8%",
    "61.4 pts",
    "398,124"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Daniel K. Akaka (D) 71.8%",
    "Maria M. Hustace (R) 24.2%",
    "47.6 pts",
    "356,902"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Daniel K. Inouye (D) 57.3%",
    "Rick Reed (R) 26.9%",
    "30.3 pts",
    "363,662"
   ],
   [
    "1990 special",
    "Daniel K. Akaka (D) 54.0%",
    "Patricia F. Saiki (R) 44.6%",
    "9.4 pts",
    "349,666"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Spark Matsunaga (D) 76.6%",
    "Maria M. Hustace (R) 20.7%",
    "55.9 pts",
    "323,876"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Daniel K. Inouye (D) 73.6%",
    "Frank Hutchinson (R) 26.4%",
    "47.1 pts",
    "328,797"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Spark Matsunaga (D) 80.1%",
    "Clarence J. Brown (R) 17.0%",
    "63.1 pts",
    "306,410"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Daniel K. Inouye (D) 77.9%",
    "Cooper Brown (R) 18.4%",
    "59.5 pts",
    "288,006"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Spark M. Matsunaga (D) 53.7%",
    "William Quinn (R) 40.6%",
    "13.1 pts",
    "302,092"
   ]
  ]
 },
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  "now": "/data/places/us-hi/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}