United States presidential elections in Hawaii
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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 on August 21, 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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Number of elections17
Voted Democratic15
Voted Republican2
Voted other0
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| Number of elections | 17 |
|---|---|
| Voted Democratic | 15 |
| Voted Republican | 2 |
| Voted other | 0 |
| Voted for winning candidate | 10 |
| Voted for losing candidate | 7 |
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 2024, 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,[update] it has not yet gone into force.[14]
Presidential elections
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| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other candidate[b] | EV | Ref. | |||||||||
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| Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| John F. Kennedy (D) ‡ | 92,410 | 50.03% | Richard Nixon (R) | 92,295 | 49.97% | – |
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– |
3 | |||||
| Lyndon B. Johnson (D) ‡ | 163,249 | 78.76% | Barry Goldwater (R) | 44,022 | 21.24% | – |
– |
– |
4 | |||||
| Hubert Humphrey (D) | 141,324 | 59.83% | Richard Nixon (R) ‡ | 91,425 | 38.70% | George Wallace (AI) | 3,469 | 1.47% | 4 | |||||
| Richard Nixon (R) ‡ | 168,865 | 62.48% | George McGovern (D) | 101,409 | 37.52% | – |
– |
– |
4 | |||||
| Jimmy Carter (D) ‡ | 147,375 | 50.59% | Gerald Ford (R) | 140,003 | 48.06% | Roger MacBride (LI) | 3,923 | 1.35% | 4 | |||||
| Jimmy Carter (D) | 135,879 | 44.80% | Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 130,112 | 42.90% | John B. Anderson (I) | 32,021 | 10.56% | 4 | |||||
| Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 185,050 | 55.10% | Walter Mondale (D) | 147,154 | 43.82% | David Bergland (LI) | 2,167 | 0.65% | 4 | |||||
| Michael Dukakis (D) | 192,364 | 54.27% | George H. W. Bush (R) ‡ | 158,625 | 44.75% | Ron Paul (LI) | 1,999 | 0.56% | 4 | |||||
| Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 179,310 | 48.09% | George H. W. Bush (R) | 136,822 | 36.70% | Ross Perot (I) | 53,003 | 14.22% | 4 | |||||
| Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 205,012 | 56.93% | Bob Dole (R) | 113,943 | 31.64% | Ross Perot (RE) | 27,358 | 7.60% | 4 | |||||
| Al Gore (D) | 205,286 | 55.79% | George W. Bush (R) ‡ | 137,845 | 37.46% | Ralph Nader (G) | 21,623 | 5.88% | 4 | |||||
| John Kerry (D) | 231,708 | 54.01% | George W. Bush (R) ‡ | 194,191 | 45.26% | David Cobb (G) | 1,737 | 0.40% | 4 | |||||
| Barack Obama (D) ‡ | 325,871 | 71.85% | John McCain (R) | 120,566 | 26.58% | Ralph Nader (I) | 3,825 | 0.84% | 4 | |||||
| Barack Obama (D) ‡ | 306,658 | 70.55% | Mitt Romney (R) | 121,015 | 27.84% | Gary Johnson (LI) | 3,840 | 0.88% | 4 | |||||
| Hillary Clinton (D) | 266,891 | 62.22% | Donald Trump (R) ‡ | 128,847 | 30.04% | Gary Johnson (LI) | 15,954 | 3.72% | 4[c] | |||||
| Joe Biden (D) ‡ | 366,130 | 63.73% | Donald Trump (R) | 196,864 | 34.27% | Jo Jorgensen (LI) | 5,539 | 0.96% | 4 | |||||
| Kamala Harris (D) | 313,044 | 60.59% | Donald Trump (R) ‡ | 193,661 | 37.48% | Jill Stein (G) | 4,387 | 0.85% | 4 | |||||
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See also
Notes
- 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]
- For purposes of these lists, other candidates are defined as those who were in third place in Hawaii.
- A faithless Democratic elector voted for Bernie Sanders for president and Elizabeth Warren for vice president.[11]