2024 Hawaii House of Representatives election


The 2024 Hawaii House of Representatives election was held on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections. All 51 seats in the Hawaii House of Representatives were elected.

Background

The deadline to file for candidacy was June 4, 2024. Primary elections were scheduled for August 10, 2024.

Retirements

Four incumbents did not seek re-election.

Democrats

  1. District 2: Richard Onishi retired.
  2. District 20: Bertrand Kobayashi retired.
  3. District 23: Scott Nishimoto retired to run for Honolulu City Council.
  4. District 45: Cedric Gates retired to run for State Senate.
In addition, on July 11, 2024, Mark Nakashima unexpectedly died, leaving the District 1 seat vacant. His appointed successor, Matthias Kusch, was not on the general election ballot leading to Nakashima being posthumously re-elected and the seat becoming vacant again.

Incumbents defeated

In primary election

Four incumbent representatives, all Democrats, were defeated in the August 10 primary election.

Democrats

  1. District 25: Scott Saiki lost renomination to Kim Coco Iwamoto.
  2. District 29: May Mizuno lost nomination to a full term to Ikaika Hussey.
  3. District 30: Sonny Ganaden lost renomination to Shirley Ann Labadan Templo.
  4. District 50: Natalia Hussey-Burdick lost renomination to Michael Lee.

In general election

2 incumbent representatives, both Democrats, were defeated by Republicans in the general election. In addition, an open seat held by Democrats flipped to Republicans.

Democrats

  1. District 32: Micah Aiu was defeated by Republican Garner Shimizu.
  2. District 40: Rose Martinez was defeated by Republican Julie Reyes Oda.

Open seats parties flipped

  1. District 45: Open seat held by Democrat Cedric Gates was won by Republican Chris Muraoka.

Results

Closest races

Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:
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Detailed results

General election results:

District 12