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Free public service for Hawaii votersNo candidate endorsementsGuide sources checked September 30, 2026General election November 3, 2026

Scope and limitations

What this Hawaii guide covers

This guide covers all 4 statewide candidate contests and 12 printed choices or tickets shown in Hawaii's official General Election facsimile ballot proofs. It does not include district, county, or transaction-level coverage.

Included

Published now

  • 12 printed choices or tickets in all 4 statewide candidate contests
  • All 14 named people across two governor tickets and 10 OHA candidates
  • Official General Election ballot proofs last updated September 4, 2026
  • 13 matched Candidate Filing System disclosure reports across 11 finance cards
  • A clear No Records Found safeguard for one active candidate committee
  • Mail-ballot, registration, voter service center, alternate-address, return, and signature cure deadlines
  • Both statewide constitutional amendment questions and their approval rule
  • A statewide judicial check explaining that voters do not decide judicial retention
  • Hawaii's no-write-in rule and the separate federal UOCAVA backup-ballot caveat
Not included

Outside this release

  • Two U.S. House district contests and their Federal Election Commission records
  • State Senate and House district contests
  • County, municipal, council, prosecuting attorney, and local contests
  • County charter amendment questions
  • Independent expenditures and outside spending
  • Transaction-level donor and expenditure analysis
  • Business, lobbying, contract, land, and conflict-record research
Known finance limits

1 finance summary unavailable

  • Hinaleimoana (Hina) WongThe current Candidate Filing System record lists Friends of Kumu Hina Wong as an active OHA candidate committee, but its official report list returned No Records Found when checked September 30, 2026. Missing here does not mean $0.
View the finance source notes
Not yet published

District contests, county ballots, and itemized finance

Congressional, legislative, county, municipal, council, and other local contests, plus county charter questions and itemized receipts and expenditures, are not included in this release.

Dataset comparison: Do not compare state datasets as if they use one method. Nevada includes itemized transactions. Alabama uses race-level portal summaries. Alaska uses APOC and FEC records. Arizona uses Spotlight summaries across a calendar-year filter. Arkansas uses candidate summaries for Election Year 2026. California uses CAL-ACCESS committee totals. Colorado uses TRACER and FEC summaries. Connecticut uses W4POLITICS sums of nonoverlapping SEEC30 periods. Florida uses state All Dates Totals and FEC summaries. Hawaii uses Candidate Filing System Column B election-period totals from each committee's latest available report.
Version record

Hawaii guide 1.0

PublishedOctober 1, 2026
Contests shown4
Ballot choices12
Ballot measures2

4 statewide candidate contests, 12 printed choices or tickets, 13 matched committee reports, voter deadlines, 2 statewide constitutional amendments, a statewide judicial check, and primary sources.

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Hawaii guide publication record
VersionPublishedScope
1.0October 1, 20264 statewide candidate contests, 12 printed choices or tickets, 13 matched committee reports, voter deadlines, 2 statewide constitutional amendments, a statewide judicial check, and primary sources.

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