- Lead
- 4,646
- Total
- 11,808
- vs nation
- D+40.8
Hawaii 27th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,124
- Total
- 12,960
- vs nation
- D+35.1
- Lead
- 3,862
- Total
- 10,288
- vs nation
- D+35.4
- Lead
- 5,023
- Total
- 10,788
- vs nation
- D+42.7
- Lead
- 5,411
- Total
- 11,175
- vs nation
- D+41.1
- Lead
- 1,268
- Total
- 10,475
- vs nation
- D+14.6
- Lead
- 2,124
- Total
- 9,102
- vs nation
- D+22.8
- Lead
- 2,779
- Total
- 9,139
- vs nation
- D+21.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+39.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 27,5602024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,445 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $108,4382024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 11.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+62.8 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+17.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 20, HI · twin score 99.1
presidential history
Party record book
Hawaii 27th 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
81.4%
4,665 votes · D+62.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 73.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
58.9%
4,215 votes · R+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 51.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,919votes
68.8% of the vote · D+39.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 8,205 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
4,570votes
43.6% of the vote · D+12.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 4,443 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
+42.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.6 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +41.1 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
−5.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.8 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · −8.5 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 compact district has posted presidential margins exceeding D+39 in recent cycles, reflecting a dense, heavily Democratic electorate that has shown little swing-state volatility.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 62.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 17.8 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 39.3 points.
A population of 27,560, a 11% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $108,438 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 20 and State House District 33.
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 27th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/15027/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.