The 2012 United States Senate election in Hawaii will take place on November 6, 2012 concurrently with the 2012 U.S. 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...

 as well as other elections to the United States Senate

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

 and House of 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...

 and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka

Daniel Akaka

Daniel Kahikina Akaka is the junior U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party. He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is currently the only member of the Senate who has Chinese ancestry....

 decided to retire instead of running for re-election to a fourth full term.

Background

U.S. Representative Daniel Akaka

Daniel Akaka

Daniel Kahikina Akaka is the junior U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party. He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is currently the only member of the Senate who has Chinese ancestry....

 was appointed by Governor John Waihee to the U.S. Senate to serve temporarily after the death of U.S. Senator Spark Matsunaga

Spark Matsunaga

Spark Masayuki Matsunaga was a United States Senator from Hawaii. He was an American Democrat whose legislation in the United States Senate led to the creation of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.-Career:Matsunaga became a United States Army Reservist in 1941,...

, and sworn into office on May 16, 1990. On November 6 of the same year, he was elected to complete the remaining four years of Matsunaga's unexpired term. He was re-elected in 1994 for a full six-year term and again in 2000 and 2006. Despite originally saying he would seek re-election in 2012, on March 2, Akaka announced that he would not run for re-election.

Potential

• Donna Mercado Kim, Hawaii Senate
  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...
  
   vice president
• Brian Schatz, Hawaii lieutenant governor
• Shan Tsutsui, Hawaii Senate
  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...
  
   president
• John D. Waihee III
  John D. Waihee III
  John David Waihee III served as the fourth Governor of Hawaii from 1986 to 1994. He was the first American of Native Hawaiian descent to be elected to the office from any state of the United States. After his tenure in the governor's office, Waihee became a nationally prominent attorney and...
  
  , former Governor

Declined

• Daniel Akaka
  Daniel Akaka
  Daniel Kahikina Akaka is the junior U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party. He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is currently the only member of the Senate who has Chinese ancestry....
  
  , incumbent U.S. 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...
  
  , Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, current and former congressional candidate in Illinois
• 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...
  
  , U.S. representative
• 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...
  
  , former Honolulu mayor
  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...
  
   (running for Congress)

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered			Ed Case	Mazie Hirono	Undecided
Public Policy Polling	October 13-16, 2011	368	± 5.1%	40%	45%	15%

Declared

• John Carroll, former state senator and state representative; unsuccessful 2010
  Hawaii gubernatorial election, 2010
  The Hawaii gubernatorial election of 2010 was held on November 2, 2010 to determine the next Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii. The winning candidates will serve a four-year term from 2010 to 2014. Incumbent Republican Governor Linda Lingle was term-limited in 2010 and not eligible to run...
  
   gubernatorial candidate
• Linda Lingle
  Linda Lingle
  Linda Lingle was the sixth Governor of Hawaii. Lingle holds a number of distinctions: first Republican elected governor of Hawaii since the departure of William F...
  
  , former Hawaii governor

Declined

• James "Duke" 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...
  
  , former lieutenant governor
• Charles Djou
  Charles Djou
  Charles Kong Djou is the former U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district...
  
  , former U.S. representative (running for U.S. House)

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered			John Carroll	Linda Lingle	Undecided
Public Policy Polling	October 13-16, 2011	293	± 5.7%	9%	85%	6%

With Carroll

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size	Margin of error	Ed Case (D)	John Carroll (R)	Undecided
Public Policy Polling	October 13-16, 2011	568	± 4.1%	60%	21%	18%

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size	Margin of error	Mazie Hirono (D)	John Carroll (R)	Undecided
Public Policy Polling	October 13-16, 2011	568	± 4.1%	56%	29%	15%

With Lingle

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size	Margin of error	Ed Case (D)	Linda Lingle (R)	Undecided
Public Policy Polling	October 13-16, 2011	568	± 4.1%	43%	45%	12%
Honolulu Star-Advertiser	May 4-10, 2011	614	± 4.0%	54%	36%	10%
Public Policy Polling	March 24-27, 2011	898	± 3.3%	52%	35%	12%

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size	Margin of error	Mazie Hirono (D)	Linda Lingle (R)	Undecided
Public Policy Polling	October 13-16, 2011	568	± 4.1%	48%	42%	10%
Honolulu Star-Advertiser	May 4-10, 2011	614	± 4.0%	57%	35%	8%
Public Policy Polling	March 24-27, 2011	898	± 3.3%	52%	40%	9%

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size	Margin of error	Brian Schatz (D)	Linda Lingle (R)	Undecided
Honolulu Star-Advertiser	May 4-10, 2011	614	± 4.0%	47%	43%	10%

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| align=center| 898
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with Colleen Hanabusa
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| align=center| 898
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| align=center| 48%
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| align=center| 9%
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| align=center| March 24-27, 2011
| align=center| 898
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| Ward Research
| align=center| May 4-10, 2011
| align=center| 614
| align=center| ± 4.0%
| align=center| 54%
| align=center| 39%
| align=center| 7%
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| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| March 24-27, 2011
| align=center| 898
| align=center| ± 3.3%
| align=center| 51%
| align=center| 40%
| align=center| 9%
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with Charles Djou
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| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| March 24-27, 2011
| align=center| 898
| align=center| ± 3.3%
| align=center| 53%
| align=center| 35%
| align=center| 12%
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| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| March 24-27, 2011
| align=center| 898
| align=center| ± 3.3%
| align=center| 51%
| align=center| 40%
| align=center| 9%
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With Mufi Hannemann
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| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| March 24-27, 2011
| align=center| 898
| align=center| ± 3.3%
| align=center| 46%
| align=center| 40%
| align=center| 14%
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Aiona (R)
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| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| March 24-27, 2011
| align=center| 898
| align=center| ± 3.3%
| align=center| 42%
| align=center| 42%
| align=center| 16%
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! Undecided
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| Ward Research
| align=center| May 4-10, 2011
| align=center| 614
| align=center| ± 4.0%
| align=center| 51%
| align=center| 36%
| align=center| 13%
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| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| March 24-27, 2011
| align=center| 898
| align=center| ± 3.3%
| align=center| 47%
| align=center| 40%
| align=center| 14%
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See also

• United States Senate elections, 2012
  United States Senate elections, 2012
  Elections to the United States Senate are to be held on November 6, 2012, with 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections whose winners will serve six-year terms from January 3, 2013 until January 3, 2019. Additionally, special elections may be held to fill vacancies...
  
  
• United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, 2012
  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 from the state, one from each of the state's two congressional districts...
  
  

External links

• Hawaii Office of the Elections
• U.S. Congress candidates for Hawaii at Project Vote Smart
  Project Vote Smart
  Project Vote Smart is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization that collects and distributes information on candidates for public office in the United States...
  
  

Campaign Sites

• John Carroll for U.S. Senate
• Ed Case for U.S. Senate
• Mazie Hirono for U.S. Senate
• Linda Lingle for U.S. Senate