Political party strength in Hawaii

The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Hawaii:

• Governor
• Lieutenant Governor

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

• State Senate
• State House of Representatives
• State delegation to the U.S. Senate
• State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives

For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

The parties are as follows:

•   Home Rule (HR)
•   Democratic (D)
• Independent (Kuoka) (IK)
•   Lunalilo (Lu)
•   National Liberal (NL)
•   National/King's (N)
•   National Reform (NR)
• Queen Emma Party (Q)
•   Reform/Republican (R)
•   Whig (W)
• No Party (NP)

Kingdom of Hawaii

1810–1843

Year	Executive offices		Legislature		State Department
	Monarch	Prime Minister	House of Nobles	House of Rep.	Agent
1810	Kamehameha I (NP)	no such office	no such offices	no such offices	no such office
...
1818
1819		Kaʻahumanu (?)
1820	Kamehameha II (?)				John Coffin Jones Jr. (?)
...
1824
1825	Kamehameha III (?)
...
1832
1833		Kīnaʻu (?)
...
1838
1839					Peter A. Brinsmade (?)
1840		Kekāuluohi (?)
...
1843

1843

	Provisional Cession
Year	Representative	Commissioners	Deputy	Commissioner	Agent
1843	George Paulet (NP)	Duncan F. Mackay (NP) and John E. Frere (NP)	Gerrit P. Judd (?)	George Brown (?)	Peter A. Brinsmade (?)
	Richard D. Thomas (NP)	John E. Frere (NP)

1843–1893

Year	Kingdom								Royal Elections
	Monarch	Prime Minister	House of Nobles	House of Rep.	Commissioner		Consul
1843	Kamehameha III (?)	Kekāuluohi (?)			George Brown (?)		Peter A. Brinsmade (?)		no such office
1844							Alexander G. Abell (?)
1845
1846		Keoni Ana (?)			Anthony Ten Eyke (?)		Joel Turrill (D)
1847
1848
1849					Charles Eames (?)
1850					Luther Severance (W)		Elisha H. Allen (W)
1851
1852
1853					David L. Gregg (D–IL)		Benjamin F. Angel (D)
1854							Darius A. Ogden (D-NY)
1855	Kamehameha IV (?)
1856		Victoria Kamāmalu (?)
1857							Abner Pratt (?)
1858					James W. Borden (D–IN)
1859
1860							no such office
1861					Thomas J. Dryer (W)
1862
1863					James McBride (R-OR)
1864	Kamehameha V (?)	Kekūanaōʻa (?)
1865		no such office
1866					Edward M. McCook (R-CO)
1867
1868
1869					Henry A. Peirce (?)
1870
1871
1872
1873	Lunalilo (Lu)								Lunalilo (Lu), Kalaimamahu Dynasty
1874									Kalākaua (N), Kalākaua Dynasty
1875	Kalākaua (N)		[?]
1876
1877			?N, 2Q, ?R, ?NP [?]		James M. Comly (R)
1878
1879			[?]
1880
1881			?N, ?Q, ?R, ?NP [?]
1882		Walter M. Gibson (N)			Rollin M. Daggett (R)
1883			?N, 3Q, ?R, ?NP [?]
1884
1885			15N, 13IK[lower-alpha 1]		George W. Merrill (?)
1886
1887		no such office	18N, 10IK
1888			[?]	[?]
1889					John L. Stevens (R)
1890
1891			13R, 9NR, 2IK	14NR, 10R
1892	Liliʻuokalani (NP, NR cabinet)
1893			14R, 3NR, 2NL	12NL, 9R, 5NR, 3IK

Republic of Hawaii

	President	Vice President[lower-alpha 2]	Senate	House of Rep.
1893	Sanford B. Dole (R)	William Chauncey Wilder (R)[1]	no such bodies
1894		no such office	[?]	[?]
1895
1896
1897			[?]	[?]
1898			[?]	[?]

Territory of Hawaii

Year	Executive offices				Territorial Legislature		Territorial delegate
	Governor	Sec. of Terr.	Attorney General	Treasurer	Senate	House of Rep.
1898	Sanford B. Dole (R)[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4]	no such offices					no such office
1899		Ernest A. Mott-Smith	Henry E. Cooper	Henry E. Cooper
1900		Henry E. Cooper	Edmund Pearson Dole	Theodore F. Lansing	9HR, 6R	17HR, 9R, 4D	Robert William Wilcox (HR)[2]
1901				William H. Wright
1902
1903		George R. Carter (R)		A. N. Kepoikai	10R, 4HR, 1D	20R, 10HR	Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole (R)
1904	George R. Carter (R)[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 5]	A. L. C. Atkinson	Lorrin Andrews	A. J. Campbell
1905					14R, 1D	28R, 1D, 1HR
1906			Emil C. Peters
1907					12R, 2D, 1HR	24R, 6HR
1908	Walter F. Frear (R)[lower-alpha 3]	Ernest A. Mott-Smith	Charles R. Hemenway
1909				Charles Reed Hemenway	9R, 4D, 2HR	22R, 7D, 1HR
1910				D. L. Conkling
1911			Alexander Lindsay Jr.		12R, 2HR, 1D	28R, 2HR
1912
1913
					18R, 15D, 2HR	18R, 11D, 1HR
1914	Lucius E. Pinkham (D)[lower-alpha 3]	Wade Warren Thayer	Wade Warren Thayer
1915			Ingram Stainback (D)	Charles J. McCarthy (D)	8R, 7D	29R, 1D
1916
1917					12R, 3D	24R, 6D
1918		Curtis P. Iaukea
	Charles J. McCarthy (D)[lower-alpha 3]		Arthur G. Smith	Delbert E. Metzger
1919			Harry Irwin		14R, 1D	24R, 6D
1920
1921					[?]	26R, 4D
1922	Wallace Rider Farrington (R)[lower-alpha 3]	Raymond C. Brown		A. Lewis Jr.			Henry Alexander Baldwin (R)
1923			John A. Matthewman	Henry C. Hapai	15R, 0D	29R, 1D[3]	William Paul Jarrett (D)
1924
1925					[?]	27R, 3D
1926			William B. Lymer
1927					13R, 2D	28R, 2D[4]	Victor S. K. Houston (R)
1928			Harry P. Hewitt
1929					14R, 1D	27R, 3D[5]
1930	Lawrence M. Judd (R)[lower-alpha 3]			E. S. Smith
1931					14R, 1D	28R, 2D
1932
1933					11R, 4D	20R, 10D	Lincoln L. McCandless (D)
1934
	Joseph Poindexter (D)[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 6]	Arthur A. Greene	William B. Pittman	William C. McGonagle
1935					10R, 5D	23R, 7D	Samuel Wilder King (R)
1936		Charles Maner Hite
1937			Samuel B. Kemp		10R, 4D, 1I	26R, 4D
1938
1939			Joseph V. Hodgson		12R, 3D	27R, 3D
1940				Norman D. Godbold Jr.
1941					12R, 3D	27R, 3D
1942			Ernest K. Kai
	Ingram Stainback (D)[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 7]	Ernest K. Kai	J. Garner Anthony
1943				Walter D. Ackerman Jr.	11R, 4D	25R, 5D	Joseph R. Farrington (R)
1944		Gerald R. Corbett	Cyrus Nils Tavares
1945					8R, 7D	21R, 9D
1946		Oren E. Long (D)	Rhoda V. Lewis
1947			Walter D. Ackerman Jr.	Howard H. Adams	8R, 7D	15R, 15D[lower-alpha 8]
1948				William B. Brown
1949					9R, 6D	20R, 10D
1950
1951					9R, 6D	21R, 9D
	Oren E. Long (D)[lower-alpha 3]	Frank G. Serrao		Howard H. Adams
1952				Sakae Takahashi
1953			Michiro Watanabe	Kam Tai Lee	8R, 7D	19R, 11D
	Samuel Wilder King (R)[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 9]	Farrant L. Turner	Edward N. Sylva
1954							Elizabeth P. Farrington (R)
1955					9D, 6R	22D, 8R
1956			Richard K. Sharpless
1957			Shiro Kashiwa		12D, 3R	18D, 12R	John A. Burns (D)
	William F. Quinn (R)[lower-alpha 3]		Herbert Choy
1958
1959		Edward E. Johnston	Jack Mizuha	Raymond Y. C. Ho	16D, 9R	33D, 18R[6]

State of Hawaii

Year	Executive Offices		State Legislature		U.S. Congress				Electoral votes
	Governor	Lieutenant Governor	State Senate	State House	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class III)	U.S. House District 1	U.S. House District 2
1959	William F. Quinn (R)	James Kealoha (R)	14R, 11D	33D, 18R	Hiram Fong (R)	Oren E. Long (D)	Daniel Inouye (D)[lower-alpha 10]
1960									John F. Kennedy/ Lyndon B. Johnson (D) Y
1961
1962
1963	John A. Burns (D)	William S. Richardson (D)	15D, 10R	40D, 11R		Daniel Inouye (D)[lower-alpha 11]	Thomas Gill (D)[lower-alpha 10]	Spark Matsunaga (D)[lower-alpha 12]
1964									Lyndon B. Johnson/ Hubert Humphrey (D) Y
1965			16D, 9R	39D, 12R			Patsy Mink (D)[lower-alpha 12]
1966
1967		Thomas Gill (D)	15D, 10R
1968									Hubert Humphrey/ Edmund Muskie (D) N
1969				38D, 13R
1970
1971		George Ariyoshi (D)	17D, 8R	34D, 17R
1972									Richard Nixon/ Spiro Agnew (R) Y
1973				35D, 16R
1974
1975	George Ariyoshi (D)	Nelson Doi (D)		34D, 17R
1976									Jimmy Carter/ Walter Mondale (D) Y
1977				41D, 10R	Spark Matsunaga (D)[lower-alpha 11]		Cecil Heftel (D)[lower-alpha 13]	Daniel Akaka (D)
1978
1979		Jean King (D)	18D, 7R	42D, 9R
1980									Jimmy Carter/ Walter Mondale (D) N
1981			17D, 8R	39D, 12R
1982
1983		John D. Waiheʻe III (D)		43D, 8R
1984									Ronald Reagan/ George H. W. Bush (R) Y
1985			22D, 3R	40D, 11R
1986
							vacant
							Neil Abercrombie (D)[lower-alpha 14]
1987	John D. Waiheʻe III (D)	Ben Cayetano (D)	20D, 5R				Pat Saiki (R)
1988									Michael Dukakis/ Lloyd Bentsen (D) N
1989			22D, 3R	45D, 6R
1990
					Daniel Akaka (D)			vacant
1991							Neil Abercrombie (D)[lower-alpha 15]	Patsy Mink (D)
1992									Bill Clinton/ Al Gore (D) Y
1993				47D, 4R
1994
1995	Ben Cayetano (D)	Mazie Hirono (D)	23D, 2R	44D, 7R
1996
1997				39D, 12R
1998
1999
2000									Al Gore/ Joe Lieberman (D) N
2001			22D, 3R	32D, 19R
2002
								vacant
2003	Linda Lingle (R)	Duke Aiona (R)	20D, 5R	36D, 15R				Ed Case (D)
2004									John Kerry/ John Edwards (D) N
2005				41D, 10R
2006
2007				43D, 8R				Mazie Hirono (D)
2008									Barack Obama/ Joe Biden (D) Y
2009			23D, 2R	45D, 6R
2010							Charles Djou (R)
2011	Neil Abercrombie (D)	Brian Schatz (D)	24D, 1R	43D, 8R			Colleen Hanabusa (D)
2012
2013		Shan Tsutsui (D)[lower-alpha 16]		44D, 7R	Mazie Hirono (D)	Brian Schatz (D)[lower-alpha 17]		Tulsi Gabbard (D)
2014
2015	David Ige (D)						Mark Takai (D)[lower-alpha 11]
2016									Hillary Clinton/ Tim Kaine (D) N
2017			25D	46D, 5R			Colleen Hanabusa (D)
2018		Doug Chin (D)[lower-alpha 17]
2019		Josh Green (D)	24D, 1R				Ed Case (D)
2020									Joe Biden/ Kamala Harris (D) Y
2021				47D, 4R				Kai Kahele (D)
2022
2023	Josh Green (D)	Sylvia Luke (D)	23D, 2R	45D, 6R				Jill Tokuda (D)
2024									[to be determined]

1. The House of Nobles and House of Representatives were merged into a 28-member body in 1864.
2. The office of Vice-President was not carried over into the Republic of Hawaii. In case of the president's inability to govern (absence, death, or incapacitation) the Minister of Foreign Affairs would have become acting president. Previously, this would be the case if both the President and Vice-president were unable to govern.
3. Territorial governor appointed by the President of the United States.
4. Resigned to take seat on the United States District Court for Hawaii Territory.
5. Resigned; term was to have ended November 23, 1907.
6. Remained in office for several months after his term expired until his successor was confirmed.
7. Had little power until October 24, 1944, as his predecessor, Joseph Poindexter, had declared martial law on December 7, 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, delegating executive authority to the military. During the period of military rule, the territory was governed by Lieutenant Generals Walter Short, Delos Emmons, and Robert C. Richardson, Jr.
8. The House elected a Republican speaker, who broke ties.
9. Resigned immediately when denied a second term by Eisenhower.
10. Elected at-large on a general ticket.
11. Died in office.
12. Elected at-large on a general ticket until districts were implemented beginning with the 1970 elections.
13. Resigned to run for Governor.
14. Elected in special election to complete term of Heftel, who resigned to run for governor.
15. Resigned to run for Governor.
16. Resigned.
17. Appointed to fill a vacancy.

See also

• Law and government in Hawaii
• Politics of Hawaii
• Elections in Hawaii
• Government of Hawaii

References

1. Hawaiian Kingdom 1874–1893, the Kalakaua Dynastism by Ralph S. Kuykendall page 521
2. United States Congress. "Robert William Wilcox (id: W000459)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
3. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Twelfth Legislature – Regular Session 1923". LLMC Digital. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
4. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Fourteenth Legislature – Regular Session 1927". LLMC Digital. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
5. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Fifteenth Legislature – Regular Session 1929". LLMC Digital. p. iv. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
6. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Thirtieth Legislature – Regular Session 1959". LLMC Digital. Retrieved 19 February 2021.