- Lead
- 3,103
- Total
- 8,245
- vs nation
- D+39.1
Hawaii 23rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,836
- Total
- 9,557
- vs nation
- D+35.7
- Lead
- 3,223
- Total
- 7,170
- vs nation
- D+42.9
- Lead
- 4,060
- Total
- 7,564
- vs nation
- D+49.8
- Lead
- 4,348
- Total
- 7,853
- vs nation
- D+48.1
- Lead
- 1,540
- Total
- 7,115
- vs nation
- D+24.1
- Lead
- 1,997
- Total
- 6,252
- vs nation
- D+31.4
- Lead
- 2,415
- Total
- 6,335
- vs nation
- D+29.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+37.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 27,0302024 5-year
- Population density
- 30,033 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 0.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,8752024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 11.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+68.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+8.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 26, HI · twin score 98.5
presidential history
Party record book
Hawaii 23rd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1960–2024 · 17 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
84.2%
3,433 votes · D+68.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 76.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
54.0%
2,544 votes · R+8.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 46.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,608votes
69.1% of the vote · D+40.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 6,038 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
2,772votes
29.0% of the vote · D+40.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 2,760 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
+49.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+53.7 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +48.1 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
−15.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+8.0 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · −17.9 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Anchored in urban Honolulu, this district delivers presidential margins exceeding 37 points, reflecting a dense, diverse electorate that has shown little volatility in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 68.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 8.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.6 points.
A population of 27,030, a 12% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,875 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 26 and State House District 28.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Hawaii 23rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/15023/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.