Political party strength in Hawaii
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Hawaii:
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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | ||||||||
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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[a] | 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[b] | 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 | ||||
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Governor | Sec. of Terr. | Attorney General | Treasurer | Senate | House of Rep. | ||
1898 | Sanford B. Dole (R)[c][d] | 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)[c][e] | 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)[c] | 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)[c] | 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)[c] | Arthur G. Smith | Delbert E. Metzger | |||||
1919 | Harry Irwin | 14R, 1D | 24R, 6D | ||||
1920 | |||||||
1921 | [?] | 26R, 4D | |||||
1922 | Wallace Rider Farrington (R)[c] | 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)[c] | E. S. Smith | |||||
1931 | 14R, 1D | 28R, 2D | |||||
1932 | |||||||
1933 | 11R, 4D | 20R, 10D | Lincoln L. McCandless (D) | ||||
1934 | |||||||
Joseph Poindexter (D)[c][f] | 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)[c][g] | 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[h] | |||
1948 | William B. Brown | ||||||
1949 | 9R, 6D | 20R, 10D | |||||
1950 | |||||||
1951 | 9R, 6D | 21R, 9D | |||||
Oren E. Long (D)[c] | Frank G. Serrao | Howard H. Adams | |||||
1952 | Sakae Takahashi | ||||||
1953 | Michiro Watanabe | Kam Tai Lee | 8R, 7D | 19R, 11D | |||
Samuel Wilder King (R)[c][i] | 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)[c] | Herbert Choy | ||||||
1958 | |||||||
1959 | Edward E. Johnston | Jack Mizuha | Raymond Y. C. Ho | 16D, 9R | 33D, 18R[6] |
State of Hawaii
- ^ The House of Nobles and House of Representatives were merged into a 28-member body in 1864.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Territorial governor appointed by the President of the United States.
- ^ Resigned to take seat on the United States District Court for Hawaii Territory.
- ^ Resigned; term was to have ended November 23, 1907.
- ^ Remained in office for several months after his term expired until his successor was confirmed.
- ^ 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.
- ^ The House elected a Republican speaker, who broke ties.
- ^ Resigned immediately when denied a second term by Eisenhower.
- ^ a b Elected at-large on a general ticket.
- ^ a b c Died in office.
- ^ a b Elected at-large on a general ticket until districts were implemented beginning with the 1970 elections.
- ^ Resigned to run for Governor.
- ^ Elected in special election to complete term of Heftel, who resigned to run for governor.
- ^ Resigned to run for Governor.
- ^ Resigned.
- ^ a b Appointed to fill a vacancy.
See also
References
- ^ Hawaiian Kingdom 1874–1893, the Kalakaua Dynastism by Ralph S. Kuykendall page 521
- ^ United States Congress. "Robert William Wilcox (id: W000459)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^ "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Twelfth Legislature – Regular Session 1923". LLMC Digital. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Fourteenth Legislature – Regular Session 1927". LLMC Digital. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Fifteenth Legislature – Regular Session 1929". LLMC Digital. p. iv. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Thirtieth Legislature – Regular Session 1959". LLMC Digital. Retrieved 19 February 2021.