United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, 2012

The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii will be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 to elect the two U.S. Representatives

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

from the state, one from each of the state's two congressional districts. The elections will coincide with the elections of other federal and state offices, including a quadrennial presidential election

United States presidential election, 2012

The United States presidential election of 2012 is the next United States presidential election, to be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. It will be the 57th quadrennial presidential election in which presidential electors, who will actually elect the President and the Vice President of the United...

and an election for the United States Senate

United States Senate election in Hawaii, 2012

The 2012 United States Senate election in Hawaii will take place on November 6, 2012 concurrently with the 2012 U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S...

. Primary election

Primary election

A primary election is an election in which party members or voters select candidates for a subsequent election. Primary elections are one means by which a political party nominates candidates for the next general election....

s will be held on August 11, 2012.

District 1

Democrat Colleen Hanabusa

Colleen Hanabusa

Colleen Wakako Hanabusa is the U.S. Representative for . She is a member of the Democratic Party. She was formerly a member of the Hawaii Senate, representing the 21st District since 1998...

, who was first elected to represent the 1st district in 2010, will seek re-election. Republican Charles Djou

Charles Djou

Charles Kong Djou is the former U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district...

, who represented the 1st district from May 2010 until January 2011, will run again.
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District 2

Mazie Hirono

is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. She is a member of the Democratic Party.She was the second Asian immigrant elected lieutenant governor of a state of the United States. She ran against Linda Lingle for governor of Hawaii in 2002, one of the few gubernatorial races in United...

, who has represented the 2nd district since 2007, announced in May 2011 that she would run for the U.S. Senate rather than for re-election to the House.

Rafael del Castillo, an attorney and patients' rights advocate; Tulsi Gabbard, a member of the Honolulu City Council

Honolulu City Council

The Honolulu City Council is the legislative branch of the City & County of Honolulu and is considered the second most powerful parliamentary body in the State of Hawaii, following the Hawaii State Legislature...

; Mufi Hannemann

Mufi Hannemann

Muliufi Francis "Mufi" Hannemann is an American politician. He is the former Mayor of Honolulu. Hannemann has served as a special assistant in Washington, D.C., with the Department of the Interior, where he was selected for a White House fellowship in the Reagan administration under Vice President...

, the former Mayor of Honolulu

Mayor of Honolulu

The Mayor of Honolulu is the chief executive officer of the City and County of Honolulu and considered the third most powerful official in the U.S. state of Hawaii, behind the Governor of Hawaii and the Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii...

; Esther Kiaaina, the chief advocate for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Office of Hawaiian Affairs

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is a semi-autonomous entity of the state of Hawaii charged with the administration of 1.8 million acres of royal land held in trust for the benefit of native Hawaiians...

; and Bob Marx, an attorney, will seek the Democratic nomination. Other potential Democratic candidates include state senator

Hawaii Senate

The Hawaii State Senate is the upper chamber of the Hawaii State Legislature. The senate consists of twenty-five members elected from an equal number of constituent districts across the islands. The senate is led by the President of the Senate, elected from the membership of the body, currently...

Josh Green; state senator Clayton Hee

Clayton Hee

Clayton H. W. Hee is a Democratic Party member of the Hawaii Senate, representing the 23rd District since 2004. Hee serves as chairman of the state Senate's Higher Education Committee....

; and Gary Hooser

Gary Hooser

Gary Hooser is the former State Senate Majority Leader representing Kauaʻi and Niʻihau since 2002. He formerly served on the Kauai County Council for 4 years before becoming a Senator....

, the director of the state's Office of Environmental Quality Control and a former state senator. Tammy Duckworth

Tammy Duckworth

Ladda Tammy Duckworth was formerly Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and formerly the director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs. Duckworth is an Iraq War veteran and former U.S...

, the Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is the United States government’s second largest department, after the United States Department of Defense...

and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives in Illinois in 2006, will not run.

Jonah Kaauwai, the former chairman of the Hawaii Republican Party

Hawaii Republican Party

The Hawaii Republican Party is the state affiliate of the Republican Party of the United States. Based in Honolulu, the party is a central organization established for the promotion of the party platform as it is drafted in convention every other year...

, may seek the Republican nomination. James Aiona

James Aiona

James R. "Duke" Aiona, Jr. is an American politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii from 2002 to 2010. He is of Hawaiian, Chinese, and Portuguese descent...

, the former Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii

Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii

The Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, concurrently the Secretary of State of Hawaii, is the assistant chief executive of that U.S. state and its various agencies and departments, as provided in the Hawaii State Constitution Article V, Sections 2 though 6. He or she is elected by popular suffrage of...

, will not run.
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