The 2006 Hawaii gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent

Linda Lingle Linda Lingle (; June 4, 1953) is an American politician who served as the sixth governor of Hawaii from 2002 to 2010. She was the first Republican elected governor of Hawaii since 1959, and was the state's first female and first Jewish govern ...

was the first Republican to be elected governor of Hawaii since

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. Although

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was a strong election year for Democrats, Lingle won re-election by a landslide owing to an economic rebound in the state that occurred during her tenure after a shaky decade for the state economy during the 1990s and early 2000s. As of , this is the last time Republicans won a statewide election in Hawaii, as well as the only time in Hawaii history that a Republican governor was re-elected. Additionally, this alongside

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were the only two times Republicans won the state with more than 60% of the vote.

Republican primary

Candidates

, incumbent governor * George L. Berish, fellow of the Society of Actuaries * Paul Manner, freelance news correspondent * George G. Peabody, editor of the Molokai Advertiser-News

Results

Democratic primary

Candidate

* Randy Iwase, former state senator and former Honolulu city councilor * William Aila, Wai'anae harbormaster * Van Tanabe, former telecommunications executive

Results

Green Party

* James Brewer Jr. - full-time political-economic educator and advocate for Hawaii's employee families

Libertarian Party

* Ozell Daniel, comedian

General election

Predictions

Results

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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(largest community: Kapa'a)

References

External links

External

Official Campaign Websites (Archived)
Linda LingleRandy Iwase
Official government and party websites
Office of the Governor

Hawaii Democrats

Hawaii Republicans

Green Party of Hawaii

Libertarian Party of Hawaii

Internal

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State of Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...

* Governors of Hawaii *

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* Green Party of Hawaii {{2006 U.S. midterm elections

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