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State of Hawaii
Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi
Flag of Hawaii Seal of Hawaii
Nickname(s): The Aloha State
Motto(s): Ua Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono
Before Statehood Known as
The Territory of Hawaii
Official language(s) English, Hawaiian
Capital Honolulu
Largest city Honolulu
Area Ranked 43rd
- Total 10,931 sq mi
(29,311 km²)
- Width n/a miles (n/a km)
- Length 1,522 miles (2,450 km)
- % water 41.2
- Latitude 18° 55′ N to 28° 27′ N
- Longitude 154° 48′ W to 178° 22′ W
Population Ranked 42nd
- Total (2000) 1,211,537
- Density 188.6/sq mi
72.83/km² (13th)
- Median income $53,123 (8th)
Elevation
- Highest point Mauna Kea[1]
13,796 ft (4,205 m)
- Mean 3,035 ft (925 m)
- Lowest point Pacific Ocean[1]
0 ft (0 m)
Admission to Union August 21, 1959 (50th)
Governor Linda Lingle (R)
U.S. Senators Daniel Inouye (D)
Daniel Akaka (D)
Congressional Delegation List
Time zone Hawaii: UTC-10
(no daylight saving time)
Abbreviations HI US-HI
Web site www.hawaii.gov
The Aloha State
State animal Humpback Whale
State bird Nene (Nēnē) (Branta sandvicensis)
State fish Reef triggerfish (Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa)
State flower Yellow Hibiscus
State gem Black Coral
State motto Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono ("The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness")
State song Hawaii Ponoi (Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī) ("Hawaii's own [people]")
State tree Kukui (Aleurites Moluccana)
This article is about the U.S. State. For other uses of the term, such as the island, see Hawaii (disambiguation).
The State of Hawaii (Hawaiian: Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi) became the 50th state of the United States of America on August 21, 1959. The archipelagic state is situated in the North Pacific Ocean, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) from the mainland, at 21°18′41″N, 157°47′47″W. In the 19th century, Hawaiʻi was also known as the Sandwich Islands.
In dialects of American English, Hawaiʻi is pronounced at least three different ways: (IPA pronunciation: [hə.ˈwaɪ.ji], [hə.ˈwaɪ.i], [hə.ˈwaɪ.ʔi]). In the Hawaiian language, there is also some variation possible, but the most general pronunciation is [hə.ˈvəi.ʔi] or [hə.ˈwəi.ʔi]. This last Hawaiian pronunciation is often used by native English-speaking Hawaiʻi residents as well.
History
Main article: History of Hawaii
Archaeologic evidence points to earliest habitation in the 11th century, probably by Polynesian settlers from the Marquesas, Raiatea and Bora Bora. The first recorded European contact with the islands was in 1778 by British explorer James Cook. Substantial evidence (Stokes 1932 for example) exists, however, of earlier Spanish visits to Hawaiʻi.
Hawaiʻi is one of four constituent states of the United States that was an independent nation prior to its statehood, along with California, Texas, and Vermont. The Kingdom of Hawaii existed from 1810 until 1893 when the monarchy was overthrown. It was an independent republic from 1894 until 1898. It was annexed by the United States in 1898, became a territory in 1900, and has been a state since 1959.
[edit] Hawaiian antiquity
Main articles: Ancient Hawaii, Hawaiian mythology, and Polynesian mythology
Anthropologists believe that Polynesians from the Marquesas and possibly the Society Islands first populated the Hawaiian Islands at some time between AD 300 and 1000. There is a great deal of dispute regarding these dates.
Archaeologists and historians also differ as to whether there were one or two waves of colonization. It is believed by some authors that there had been an early settlement from the Marquesas and a later wave of immigrants from Tahiti, circa 1300, who were said to have introduced a new line of high chiefs and the practice of human sacrifice. This later immigration is detailed in folk tales about Paao (Pāʻao). Other authors, however, have argued that there is no archaeological or linguistic evidence whatsoever for a later influx of Tahitian settlers and that Paʻao must be regarded as a myth. Since there are still many supporters of the Paʻao narrative, this topic is still hotly disputed.
History of Hawaii
Ancient times
Monarchy
Provisional Government
Republic
Territory
State
Leaving aside the question of Paʻao, historians agree that the history of the islands was marked by a slow but steady growth in population and the size of chiefdoms, which grew to encompass whole islands. Local chiefs, called alii (aliʻi), ruled their settlements and fought to extend their sway and defend their communities from predatory rivals. This was conducted in a system of alii of various ranks somewhat similar to Feudalism.
[edit] European contact
The 1778 arrival of British explorer Captain James Cook is usually taken to be Hawaiʻi’s first contact with European explorers. Cook plotted and published the geographical coordinates of the Hawaiian Islands, so that they could be found again. Cook named his discovery the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his sponsors, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, and reported the native name as Owyhee. This is also the reason for the existence of the British Overseas Territory of the South Sandwich Islands near Argentina, as opposed to the Hawaiian ones.
Some writers have claimed that there were European visitors before Cook, citing Hawaiian legends and references in some Spanish chronicles in support of their argument.[citation needed] While it is possible that there were earlier visitors, this is not accepted as fact by most historians.
Cook visited the Hawaiian islands twice. The second visit ended badly for him, when he was killed at Kealakekua Bay in 1779. He had attempted to abduct a Hawaiian chief and hold him as ransom for return of a ship’s boat that was stolen by a different minor chief;[7] the chief’s supporters fought back, killing him.
After Cook’s visit and the publication of several books relating his voyages, the Hawaiian islands received many European visitors: explorers, traders, and eventually whalers who found the islands a convenient harbor and source of fresh food. Early British influence can still be seen from the design of the local Flag of Hawaii which has the British Union Flag in the corner. Visitors introduced diseases to the formerly isolated islands, and the Hawaiian population plunged precipitously. American missionaries arrived in 1820 and eventually converted the chiefs and the remaining population to Protestant Christianity.
[edit] Hawaiian kingdom
Main article: Kingdom of Hawaii
After a series of battles that ended in 1795 and peaceful cession of the island of Kauaʻi in 1810, the Hawaiian Islands were united for the first time under a single ruler who would become known as King Kamehameha the Great. He established the House of Kamehameha, a dynasty that ruled over the kingdom until 1872.
The death of the bachelor King Kamehameha V—who did not name an heir—resulted in the popular election of King Lunalilo over Kalakaua. After Lunalilo’s death, in a hotly contested and allegedly fraudulent election by the legislature in 1874 between Kalakaua and Emma (which led to riots and the landing of U.S. and British troops to keep the peace), governance was passed on to the House of Kalakaua.
In 1887, the influence of Walter Murray Gibson, a group of primarily American and European businessmen, including kingdom subjects and members of the Hawaiian government forced King Kalakaua to sign the derisively nicknamed "Bayonet Constitution" which stripped the king of administrative authority, eliminated voting rights for Asians and set minimum income and property requirements for American, European and native Hawaiian voters, essentially limiting the electorate to wealthy elite Americans, Europeans and native Hawaiians. King Kalakaua reigned until his death in 1891. His sister, Liliuokalani, succeeded him to the throne and ruled until her overthrow in 1893.
Kamehameha
Kamehameha II
Kamehameha III
Kamehameha IV
Kamehameha V
Lunalilo
Kalakaua
Liliʻuokalani
[edit] Overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy
Ship's landing force on duty at the Arlington Hotel, Honolulu, at the time of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, January 1893. Lieutenant Lucien Young, USN, commanded the detachment, and is presumably the officer at right.[8]Main article: Overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy
In 1893, Queen Liliuokalani threatened to abrogate the "Bayonet Constitution" and draft a new constitution that would restore power to the monarchy. Supporters of the Reform Party (primarily of American and European ancestry, but including some native Hawaiians) organized in response to this and took over the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii. American troops aboard the USS Boston were landed in Honolulu under strict orders of neutrality, to protect the "lives and property of American citizens, and to assist in preserving public order",[9] while a 13 member council of businessmen, attorneys and politicians organized the Honolulu Rifles to depose Queen Liliuokalani.
The monarchy ended in January 1893, and there was much controversy in the following years as the queen tried to regain her throne. After an unsuccessful attempt at armed rebellion in 1895, a weapons cache was found on the palace grounds and Queen Liliuokalani was placed under arrest, tried by a military tribunal of the Republic of Hawaii, convicted of misprision of treason and then imprisoned in her own home. The Queen officially abdicated in 1896.[10] In 1993, a joint Apology Resolution regarding the overthrow was passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton.[11]
Law and government
See also: United States presidential election, 2004, in Hawaii
Presidential elections results Year Republican Democratic
2004 45.26% 194,191 54.01% 231,708
2000 37.46% 137,845 55.79% 205,286
1996 31.64% 113,943 56.93% 205,012
1992 36.70% 136,822 48.09% 179,310
1988 44.75% 158,625 54.27% 192,364
1984 55.10% 185,050 43.82% 147,154
1980 42.90% 130,112 44.80% 135,879
1976 48.06% 140,003 50.59% 147,375
1972 62.48% 168,865 37.52% 101,409
1968 38.70% 91,425 59.83% 141,324
1964 21.24% 44,022 78.76% 163,249
1960 49.97% 92,295 50.03% 92,410
The state government of Hawaii is modeled after the federal government with adaptations originating from the kingdom era of Hawaiian history. As codified in the Constitution of Hawaii, there are three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial.
The executive branch is led by the Governor of Hawaii and assisted by the Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, both elected on the same ticket. The governor, in residence at the grounds of Washington Place, is the only public official elected for the state government in a statewide race; all other administrators and judges are appointed by the governor. The lieutenant governor is concurrently the Secretary of State of Hawaii. Both the governor and lieutenant governor administer their duties from the Hawaii State Capitol. The governor and lieutenant governor oversee the major agencies and departments of the executive of which there are twenty.
The legislative branch consists of the Hawaii State Legislature—the twenty-five members of the Hawaii State Senate led by the President of the Senate and the fifty-one members of the Hawaii State House of Representatives led by the Speaker of the House. They also govern from the Hawaii State Capitol. The judicial branch is led by the highest state court, the Hawaii State Supreme Court, which uses Aliiolani Hale (Aliʻiōlani Hale) as its chambers. Lower courts are organized as the Hawaii State Judiciary.
The state is represented in the Congress of the United States by a delegation of four members. They are the senior and junior United States Senators, the representative of the First Congressional District of Hawaii and the representative of the Second Congressional District of Hawaii. Many Hawaii residents have been appointed to administer other agencies and departments of the federal government by the President of the United States. All federal officers of Hawaii administer their duties locally from the Prince Kuhio Federal Building (Kūhiō) near the Aloha Tower and Honolulu Harbor.
Hawaii is primarily dominated by the Democratic Party and has supported Democrats in 10 of the 12 presidential elections in which it has participated. In 2004, John Kerry won the state’s 4 electoral votes by a margin of 9 percentage points with 54% of the vote. Every county in the state supported the Democratic candidate.
The Prince Kuhio Federal Building also houses agencies of the federal government such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service and the United States Secret Service. The building is the site of the federal courts and the offices of the United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, principal law enforcement officer of the United States Department of Justice in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.
James R. Aiona, Jr.
Lieutenant Governor
(Republican)
Daniel Inouye
U.S. Senator
(Democrat)
Daniel Akaka
U.S. Senator
(Democrat)
Neil Abercrombie
U.S. Representative
(Democrat)
Mazie Hirono
U.S. Representative
(Democrat)
Harry Kim
Mayor of Hawaii
(Nonpartisan)
Mufi Hannemann
Mayor of Honolulu
(Nonpartisan)
Alan Arakawa
Mayor of Maui
(Nonpartisan)
Unique to Hawaii is the way it has organized its municipal governments. There are no incorporated cities in Hawaii except the City & County of Honolulu. All other municipal governments are administered at the county level. The county executives are the Mayor of Hawaii, Mayor of Honolulu, Mayor of Kauai and Mayor of Maui. All mayors in the state are elected in nonpartisan races.
The officers of the federal and state governments have been historically elected from the Democratic Party of Hawaii and the Hawaii Republican Party. Municipal charters in the state have declared all mayors to be elected in nonpartisan races.
Hawaii
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
State of Hawaii
Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi
Flag of Hawaii Seal of Hawaii
Nickname(s): The Aloha State
Motto(s): Ua Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono
Before Statehood Known as
The Territory of Hawaii
Official language(s) English, Hawaiian
Capital Honolulu
Largest city Honolulu
Area Ranked 43rd
- Total 10,931 sq mi
(29,311 km²)
- Width n/a miles (n/a km)
- Length 1,522 miles (2,450 km)
- % water 41.2
- Latitude 18° 55′ N to 28° 27′ N
- Longitude 154° 48′ W to 178° 22′ W
Population Ranked 42nd
- Total (2000) 1,211,537
- Density 188.6/sq mi
72.83/km² (13th)
- Median income $53,123 (8th)
Elevation
- Highest point Mauna Kea[1]
13,796 ft (4,205 m)
- Mean 3,035 ft (925 m)
- Lowest point Pacific Ocean[1]
0 ft (0 m)
Admission to Union August 21, 1959 (50th)
Governor Linda Lingle (R)
U.S. Senators Daniel Inouye (D)
Daniel Akaka (D)
Congressional Delegation List
Time zone Hawaii: UTC-10
(no daylight saving time)
Abbreviations HI US-HI
Web site www.hawaii.gov
The Aloha State
State animal Humpback Whale
State bird Nene (Nēnē) (Branta sandvicensis)
State fish Reef triggerfish (Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa)
State flower Yellow Hibiscus
State gem Black Coral
State motto Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono ("The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness")
State song Hawaii Ponoi (Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī) ("Hawaii's own [people]")
State tree Kukui (Aleurites Moluccana)
This article is about the U.S. State. For other uses of the term, such as the island, see Hawaii (disambiguation).
The State of Hawaii (Hawaiian: Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi) became the 50th state of the United States of America on August 21, 1959. The archipelagic state is situated in the North Pacific Ocean, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) from the mainland, at 21°18′41″N, 157°47′47″W. In the 19th century, Hawaiʻi was also known as the Sandwich Islands.
In dialects of American English, Hawaiʻi is pronounced at least three different ways: (IPA pronunciation: [hə.ˈwaɪ.ji], [hə.ˈwaɪ.i], [hə.ˈwaɪ.ʔi]). In the Hawaiian language, there is also some variation possible, but the most general pronunciation is [hə.ˈvəi.ʔi] or [hə.ˈwəi.ʔi]. This last Hawaiian pronunciation is often used by native English-speaking Hawaiʻi residents as well.
History
Main article: History of Hawaii
Archaeologic evidence points to earliest habitation in the 11th century, probably by Polynesian settlers from the Marquesas, Raiatea and Bora Bora. The first recorded European contact with the islands was in 1778 by British explorer James Cook. Substantial evidence (Stokes 1932 for example) exists, however, of earlier Spanish visits to Hawaiʻi.
Hawaiʻi is one of four constituent states of the United States that was an independent nation prior to its statehood, along with California, Texas, and Vermont. The Kingdom of Hawaii existed from 1810 until 1893 when the monarchy was overthrown. It was an independent republic from 1894 until 1898. It was annexed by the United States in 1898, became a territory in 1900, and has been a state since 1959.
[edit] Hawaiian antiquity
Main articles: Ancient Hawaii, Hawaiian mythology, and Polynesian mythology
Anthropologists believe that Polynesians from the Marquesas and possibly the Society Islands first populated the Hawaiian Islands at some time between AD 300 and 1000. There is a great deal of dispute regarding these dates.
Archaeologists and historians also differ as to whether there were one or two waves of colonization. It is believed by some authors that there had been an early settlement from the Marquesas and a later wave of immigrants from Tahiti, circa 1300, who were said to have introduced a new line of high chiefs and the practice of human sacrifice. This later immigration is detailed in folk tales about Paao (Pāʻao). Other authors, however, have argued that there is no archaeological or linguistic evidence whatsoever for a later influx of Tahitian settlers and that Paʻao must be regarded as a myth. Since there are still many supporters of the Paʻao narrative, this topic is still hotly disputed.
History of Hawaii
Ancient times
Monarchy
Provisional Government
Republic
Territory
State
Leaving aside the question of Paʻao, historians agree that the history of the islands was marked by a slow but steady growth in population and the size of chiefdoms, which grew to encompass whole islands. Local chiefs, called alii (aliʻi), ruled their settlements and fought to extend their sway and defend their communities from predatory rivals. This was conducted in a system of alii of various ranks somewhat similar to Feudalism.
[edit] European contact
The 1778 arrival of British explorer Captain James Cook is usually taken to be Hawaiʻi’s first contact with European explorers. Cook plotted and published the geographical coordinates of the Hawaiian Islands, so that they could be found again. Cook named his discovery the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his sponsors, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, and reported the native name as Owyhee. This is also the reason for the existence of the British Overseas Territory of the South Sandwich Islands near Argentina, as opposed to the Hawaiian ones.
Some writers have claimed that there were European visitors before Cook, citing Hawaiian legends and references in some Spanish chronicles in support of their argument.[citation needed] While it is possible that there were earlier visitors, this is not accepted as fact by most historians.
Cook visited the Hawaiian islands twice. The second visit ended badly for him, when he was killed at Kealakekua Bay in 1779. He had attempted to abduct a Hawaiian chief and hold him as ransom for return of a ship’s boat that was stolen by a different minor chief;[7] the chief’s supporters fought back, killing him.
After Cook’s visit and the publication of several books relating his voyages, the Hawaiian islands received many European visitors: explorers, traders, and eventually whalers who found the islands a convenient harbor and source of fresh food. Early British influence can still be seen from the design of the local Flag of Hawaii which has the British Union Flag in the corner. Visitors introduced diseases to the formerly isolated islands, and the Hawaiian population plunged precipitously. American missionaries arrived in 1820 and eventually converted the chiefs and the remaining population to Protestant Christianity.
[edit] Hawaiian kingdom
Main article: Kingdom of Hawaii
After a series of battles that ended in 1795 and peaceful cession of the island of Kauaʻi in 1810, the Hawaiian Islands were united for the first time under a single ruler who would become known as King Kamehameha the Great. He established the House of Kamehameha, a dynasty that ruled over the kingdom until 1872.
The death of the bachelor King Kamehameha V—who did not name an heir—resulted in the popular election of King Lunalilo over Kalakaua. After Lunalilo’s death, in a hotly contested and allegedly fraudulent election by the legislature in 1874 between Kalakaua and Emma (which led to riots and the landing of U.S. and British troops to keep the peace), governance was passed on to the House of Kalakaua.
In 1887, the influence of Walter Murray Gibson, a group of primarily American and European businessmen, including kingdom subjects and members of the Hawaiian government forced King Kalakaua to sign the derisively nicknamed "Bayonet Constitution" which stripped the king of administrative authority, eliminated voting rights for Asians and set minimum income and property requirements for American, European and native Hawaiian voters, essentially limiting the electorate to wealthy elite Americans, Europeans and native Hawaiians. King Kalakaua reigned until his death in 1891. His sister, Liliuokalani, succeeded him to the throne and ruled until her overthrow in 1893.
Kamehameha
Kamehameha II
Kamehameha III
Kamehameha IV
Kamehameha V
Lunalilo
Kalakaua
Liliʻuokalani
[edit] Overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy
Ship's landing force on duty at the Arlington Hotel, Honolulu, at the time of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, January 1893. Lieutenant Lucien Young, USN, commanded the detachment, and is presumably the officer at right.[8]Main article: Overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy
In 1893, Queen Liliuokalani threatened to abrogate the "Bayonet Constitution" and draft a new constitution that would restore power to the monarchy. Supporters of the Reform Party (primarily of American and European ancestry, but including some native Hawaiians) organized in response to this and took over the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii. American troops aboard the USS Boston were landed in Honolulu under strict orders of neutrality, to protect the "lives and property of American citizens, and to assist in preserving public order",[9] while a 13 member council of businessmen, attorneys and politicians organized the Honolulu Rifles to depose Queen Liliuokalani.
The monarchy ended in January 1893, and there was much controversy in the following years as the queen tried to regain her throne. After an unsuccessful attempt at armed rebellion in 1895, a weapons cache was found on the palace grounds and Queen Liliuokalani was placed under arrest, tried by a military tribunal of the Republic of Hawaii, convicted of misprision of treason and then imprisoned in her own home. The Queen officially abdicated in 1896.[10] In 1993, a joint Apology Resolution regarding the overthrow was passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton.[11]
Law and government
See also: United States presidential election, 2004, in Hawaii
Presidential elections results Year Republican Democratic
2004 45.26% 194,191 54.01% 231,708
2000 37.46% 137,845 55.79% 205,286
1996 31.64% 113,943 56.93% 205,012
1992 36.70% 136,822 48.09% 179,310
1988 44.75% 158,625 54.27% 192,364
1984 55.10% 185,050 43.82% 147,154
1980 42.90% 130,112 44.80% 135,879
1976 48.06% 140,003 50.59% 147,375
1972 62.48% 168,865 37.52% 101,409
1968 38.70% 91,425 59.83% 141,324
1964 21.24% 44,022 78.76% 163,249
1960 49.97% 92,295 50.03% 92,410
The state government of Hawaii is modeled after the federal government with adaptations originating from the kingdom era of Hawaiian history. As codified in the Constitution of Hawaii, there are three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial.
The executive branch is led by the Governor of Hawaii and assisted by the Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, both elected on the same ticket. The governor, in residence at the grounds of Washington Place, is the only public official elected for the state government in a statewide race; all other administrators and judges are appointed by the governor. The lieutenant governor is concurrently the Secretary of State of Hawaii. Both the governor and lieutenant governor administer their duties from the Hawaii State Capitol. The governor and lieutenant governor oversee the major agencies and departments of the executive of which there are twenty.
The legislative branch consists of the Hawaii State Legislature—the twenty-five members of the Hawaii State Senate led by the President of the Senate and the fifty-one members of the Hawaii State House of Representatives led by the Speaker of the House. They also govern from the Hawaii State Capitol. The judicial branch is led by the highest state court, the Hawaii State Supreme Court, which uses Aliiolani Hale (Aliʻiōlani Hale) as its chambers. Lower courts are organized as the Hawaii State Judiciary.
The state is represented in the Congress of the United States by a delegation of four members. They are the senior and junior United States Senators, the representative of the First Congressional District of Hawaii and the representative of the Second Congressional District of Hawaii. Many Hawaii residents have been appointed to administer other agencies and departments of the federal government by the President of the United States. All federal officers of Hawaii administer their duties locally from the Prince Kuhio Federal Building (Kūhiō) near the Aloha Tower and Honolulu Harbor.
Hawaii is primarily dominated by the Democratic Party and has supported Democrats in 10 of the 12 presidential elections in which it has participated. In 2004, John Kerry won the state’s 4 electoral votes by a margin of 9 percentage points with 54% of the vote. Every county in the state supported the Democratic candidate.
The Prince Kuhio Federal Building also houses agencies of the federal government such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service and the United States Secret Service. The building is the site of the federal courts and the offices of the United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, principal law enforcement officer of the United States Department of Justice in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.
James R. Aiona, Jr.
Lieutenant Governor
(Republican)
Daniel Inouye
U.S. Senator
(Democrat)
Daniel Akaka
U.S. Senator
(Democrat)
Neil Abercrombie
U.S. Representative
(Democrat)
Mazie Hirono
U.S. Representative
(Democrat)
Harry Kim
Mayor of Hawaii
(Nonpartisan)
Mufi Hannemann
Mayor of Honolulu
(Nonpartisan)
Alan Arakawa
Mayor of Maui
(Nonpartisan)
Unique to Hawaii is the way it has organized its municipal governments. There are no incorporated cities in Hawaii except the City & County of Honolulu. All other municipal governments are administered at the county level. The county executives are the Mayor of Hawaii, Mayor of Honolulu, Mayor of Kauai and Mayor of Maui. All mayors in the state are elected in nonpartisan races.
The officers of the federal and state governments have been historically elected from the Democratic Party of Hawaii and the Hawaii Republican Party. Municipal charters in the state have declared all mayors to be elected in nonpartisan races.