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Governor · Hawaii · 2026

General election · 4 on the November ballot · Incumbent running

Model rating Leans Democratic (Anchored) on our experimental model — not a poll or a forecast.

No polls on file for this race. Model inputs: 4 of 7, updated today. Sources · What is validated

News attention 53/100 — how much coverage the race gets, not who is winning. Updated 2 days ago. How it works

On the November ballot (4)

From reported primary results, checked 2026-09-30. Each state certifies its own ballot; see the source below.

Ballot source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/08/us/elections/results-hawaii-primary.html

Latest verified field polling

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Polling average

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Results

Vote counts as reported by the state; transcribed from the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites the state's official results.

Democratic primary · official results

Josh Green (incumbent) advanced184,28988.5%
Derek Kawakami advanced140,24766.1%
Della Au Belatti55,24526.1%
John Choi13,0096.1%
Lauren Kapoliahi’iaka Shim11,1995.4%
George Lucas-Tadeo8,1343.9%
Duke Bourgoin4,5952.2%
Sam Puletasi2,1521.0%
Ku L. Cuadra1,4170.7%

Republican primary

Gary Cordery advanced36,42875.8%
Daniel Anthony advanced16,98237.9%
Ken Fujiyama11,59924.2%
Margaret Rose Mejia10,83324.2%
Robert E. Peters8,89919.9%
Hopelin Cresencia8,07018.0%

Source: Wikipedia article revision (CC BY-SA 4.0), retrieved 2026-09-30 · parser wiki-race-1.0.0

Key dates

Official federal election dates for this state from the FEC. Registration deadlines and early voting: see the state election office.

  • 2026-08-08 — Primary election: U.S. House
  • 2026-11-03 — General election: U.S. House

Source: FEC election dates (public domain).

Signals (experimental)

Attention 53 Vector D · Anchored

Vugol Me Attention (attention intensity)

Attention intensity index 0–100 · not a poll · normalized nightly

pulse-1.0.0
53OUT OF 100Moderate attention
Attention percentile83th
7-day momentum4 / 100
Source breadth50% of tracked

Vugol Me Vector (experimental)

Directional rating without probability · experimental · model confidence: high

vector-1.1.0
Democratic leanOpen centerRepublican lean
AnchoredHeldTiltingOpenTiltingHeldAnchored
Completeness4 of 7 inputs (national, prior, pres, incumbent) · missing: money, pulse, poll
Evidenceno verified poll · fundamentals only
Freshnessoldest input 2026-09-28 (2 days ago)
Vector component signals · estimated margin D +28.2Presidential lean of the seat (2024 D +23.1, national swing D +8.4)D +31.5Last result for this seat (2022 D +26.3, national swing D +8.5)D +34.8IncumbencyD +6.0National environment: our generic-ballot average is D +7.9 (27 pollsters, as of 2026-09-30), against the 2024 national House vote of R +2.6. The seat's last result and presidential lean move by that swing × 0.8 for this office; polls, incumbency and money do not. How.

Daily precision telemetry

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Sources

Band: D · Anchored (experimental). Have a say in the community poll; it is open to signed-in voters and never feeds these numbers.