2022 Hawaii Senate Election
The 2022 Hawaii Senate elections were held on November 8, 2022, to elect senators in all 25 districts of the Hawaii Senate, state Senate of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Due to the chamber's use of the 2-4-4 term system, members were elected in single-member constituencies, with half of them serving two-year terms and the other half serving four-year terms. These elections were held concurrently with various 2022 United States elections, federal and state elections, including for 2022 Hawaii gubernatorial election, governor of Hawaii. Partisan primaries were held on August 13. The Democratic Party of Hawaii, Democratic Party maintained supermajority control of the chamber, although Hawaii Republican Party, Republicans were able to win two seats, a first for the party since the 2008 election. Predictions Overview Summary by district Closest races Districts where the margin of victory was under 10%: # # Retiring incumbents Democrats # District 6: Rosalyn Baker was ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hawaii Senate
The Hawaii State Senate ( Hawaiian: Ka ‘Aha Kenekoa) is the upper house of the Hawaii State Legislature. It consists of twenty-five members elected from an equal number of constituent districts across the islands and is led by the President of the Senate, elected from the membership of the body, currently Ron Kouchi. The forerunner of the Hawaii Senate during the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii was the House of Nobles originated in 1840. In 1894, the Constitution of the Republic of Hawaii renamed the upper house the present senate. Senators are elected to four-year terms and are not subject to term limits. Like most state legislatures in the United States, the Hawaii State Senate is a part-time body and senators often have active careers outside government. The lower house of the legislature is the Hawaii House of Representatives. The membership of the Senate also elects additional officers to include the Senate Vice President, Senate Chief Clerk, Assistant Chief Cl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Redistricting In The United States
Redistricting in the United States is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries. For the United States House of Representatives, and state legislatures, redistricting occurs after each United States census, ten-year census. The Article One of the United States Constitution#Section 2, Clause 3, U.S. Constitution in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 provides for proportional representation in the House of Representatives. The Reapportionment Act of 1929 required that the number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives be kept at a constant 435, and a 1941 act made the reapportionment among the states by population automatic after every decennial census. Reapportionment occurs at the federal level followed by redistricting at the state level. According to , Article One of the United States Constitution#Section 4: Congressional elections, Article I, Section 4 left to the legislature of each state the authority to establish congressional districts; however, such decisio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Carol Fukunaga
Carol A. Fukunaga (born December 12, 1947) is an American lawyer and politician. She is a member of the Hawaii State Senate from the 11th District and has served in various elected offices since 1978. Early life and education Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Fukunaga received her bachelor's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and her Juris Doctor degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law. Career She practiced law in Honolulu. Fukunaga served in the Hawaii Constitutional Convention of 1978. She then served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1978 to 1982 and from 1986 to 1992 and was a Democrat. From 1982 to 1986, Fukunaga served as the executive officer for the Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii. Fukunaga served in the Hawaii Senate from 1992 to 2012. From 2012 to 2022, Fukunaga served on the Honolulu City Council Honolulu City Council is the legislature of the City and County of Honolulu, the capital and largest city in Hawai'i, the fiftieth state in the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brian Taniguchi
Brian Tetsuji Taniguchi (born November 7, 1951, in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate from January 16, 2013, to January 16, 2023, representing District 10. Taniguchi served consecutively from 1995 until 2013 in the District 10 and District 11 seats, having served consecutively in the Hawaii State Legislature from 1981 until 1995 in the Hawaii House of Representatives. Taniguchi did not seek re-election in the 2022 Hawaii Senate election. Education Taniguchi attended University of Hawaii at Manoa and earned his JD from its William S. Richardson School of Law. Elections *1980 Taniguchi was initially elected the Hawaii House of Representatives in the November 4, 1980, General election. *1982 Taniguchi was re-elected in the November 2, 1982, General election. *1984 Taniguchi was re-elected in the November 6, 1984, General election *1986 Taniguchi was re-elected in the November 4, 1986, General election. *1988 Taniguchi w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Les Ihara Jr
LES or Les may refer to: People * Les (given name) * Les (surname) * L.E.S. (producer), hip hop producer Space flight * Launch Entry Suit, worn by Space Shuttle crews * Launch escape system, for spacecraft emergencies * Lincoln Experimental Satellite series, 1960s and 1970s Biology and medicine * Lazy eye syndrome, or amblyopia, a disorder in the human optic nerve * The Liverpool epidemic strain of ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa'' * Lower esophageal sphincter * Lupus erythematosus systemicus Places * The Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City * Les, Catalonia, a municipality in Spain * Leş, a village in Nojorid Commune, Bihor County, Romania * ''Les'', the Hungarian name for Leșu Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania * Les, a village in Tejakula district, Buleleng regency, Bali, Indonesia * Lesotho, IOC and UNDP country code * Lès, a word featuring in many French placenames Transport * Leigh-on-Sea railway station, National Rail station code * Leyton ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stanley Chang
Stanley Pai Chang (born September 13, 1982) is a Democratic member of the Hawaii State Senate, representing the 9th district. Before entering the legislature, he served as a Honolulu city councilman. He defeated Sam Slom, the last remaining Republican in the Hawaii State Senate, in 2016. Chang faced Slom a second time in 2020, and won reelection. Chang was described by ''Honolulu Civil Beat'' in 2023 as a "longtime housing advocate." In 2022, he pushed for the construction of 100,000 housing units around the new Aloha Stadium. Chang argued that the parcel of land was prime for high-density affordable housing. Early life and education Chang was born on September 13, 1982, in Honolulu, Hawaii Honolulu ( ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is the county seat of the Consolidated city-county, consolidated City and County of Honol .... He was raised in East Honolulu by imm ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lynn DeCoite
Lynn Pualani DeCoite (born July 24, 1970) is a member of the Hawaii State Senate for District 7, appointed by Governor David Ige to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Senator J. Kalani English. Prior to her appointment, DeCoite was a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives for District 13, since having been appointed by Governor David Ige to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of the late Representative Mele Carroll after the 2015 legislative session began. A former member of the Hawaii State Board of Agriculture, she resigned her position when appointed. District 13 is a rural district encompassing parts of Maui on three inhabited islands: * Parts of Maui island: Haiku, Hāna, Kaupo, Kīpahulu, Nahiku, Pāʻia * All of Lānaʻi, and * All of Molokaʻi The district also represents the uninhabited islands of Kahoolawe and Molokini. DeCoite is a resident of Hoolehua, Molokai and owns L&R Farm Enterprises and RJ Snacks. DeCoitte has been appointed to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Angus McKelvey
Angus L.K. McKelvey (born in 1968 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Hawaii State Senate since November 2022 representing District 6. He previously served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2006 to 2022 representing District 10. Education McKelvey earned his BA in political science from Whittier College and his JD from Concord Law School. Elections *2012 McKelvey won the August 11, 2012 Democratic Primary with 1,329 votes (66.8%), and won the November 6, 2012 General election with 4,255 votes (63.9%) against Republican nominee Chayne Marten. *2006 Challenging incumbent Democratic Representative Kam Tanaka for the District 10 seat, McKelvey won the September 26, 2006 Democratic Primary with 1,360 votes (59.3%), and won the November 7, 2006 General election with 2,623 votes (54.4%) against Republican nominee Ben Azman, who had run for Hawaii Senate in 2002. *2008 McKelvey was unopposed for the September 20, 2008 Democratic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rosalyn Baker
Rosalyn "Roz" Hester Baker (born September 20, 1946) is an American politician. She was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate for District 6 from November 2012 to November 2022. Baker served consecutively from 2002 until 2012 in the District 5 seat, and previously served from 1992 until 1998, having served consecutively in the Hawaii State Legislature from 1988 until 1993 in the Hawaii House of Representatives. Baker was appointed by Governor John D. Waiheʻe III to the Senate on November 26, 1993, and served as the Senate Chair of Commerce and Consumer Protection. Early life Baker was born on September 20, 1946, in El Campo, Texas. She graduated from Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) with a Bachelor's degree, bachelors of arts degree in political science and speech in 1968 and received a masters of arts degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in 1969. She h ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gilbert Keith-Agaran
Gilbert Samuel Coloma Keith-Agaran (born September 27, 1962) is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Hawaii Senate, representing the 5th district from 2013 to 2023. He previously represented the 9th district in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2009 to 2013. Early life and education Keith-Agaran was born in Wailuku, Hawaii. After graduating from Maui High School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and a Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law. Career After graduating from law school, Keith-Agaran returned to Hawaii, eventually working as a partner at Takitani Agaran Jorgensen & Wildman LLLP. He served as the first deputy director of the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, director of the Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and as the deputy director of the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. In January 2009, Keith-Agaran was appointed by Governor Linda Lingle to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tim Richards III
Herbert Montague "Tim" Richards III is an American politician serving as a member of the Hawaii Senate for the 4th district. He was elected to office on November 8, 2022. Early life and education Richards was born in Kohala, Hawaii and attended Hawaii Preparatory Academy. He attended college at Washington State University, earning his Bachelor of Science in 1981 and Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 1984. Career Prior to entering politics, Richards was a veterinarian for Veterinary Associates and rancher at Kahua Ranch. Elected office Richards served on the Hawaii County Council from 2015 to 2022 for the district 9 seat. He worked on agricultural policy and food security and has served on an advisory group of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was elected to the Hawaii Senate The Hawaii State Senate ( Hawaiian: Ka ‘Aha Kenekoa) is the upper house of the Hawaii State Legislature. It consists of twenty-five members elected from an equal number of constituen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dru Kanuha
Dru Mamo Kanuha is an American politician currently serving in the Hawaii Senate from Hawaii's 3rd district. He was elected to the seat after incumbent Democrat Josh Green ran for Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii. He defeated Libertarian candidate Michael Last in the general election, winning 79.3% to 20.7%. In May 2021, Kanuha was named Majority Leader of the Hawaii Senate after J. Kalani English retired amid health complications from COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever .... References Democratic Party Hawaii state senators Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Native Hawaiian politicians Asian American and Pacific Islander state legislators in Hawaii 21st-century members of the Hawaii State Legislature {{Hawaii-politicia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |