- Lead
- 4,778
- Total
- 19,297
- vs nation
- D+26.2
Hawaii 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,054
- Total
- 21,413
- vs nation
- D+28.5
- Lead
- 6,842
- Total
- 15,307
- vs nation
- D+42.6
- Lead
- 8,169
- Total
- 14,588
- vs nation
- D+52.1
- Lead
- 9,433
- Total
- 15,580
- vs nation
- D+53.3
- Lead
- 4,113
- Total
- 13,957
- vs nation
- D+31.9
- Lead
- 3,869
- Total
- 11,521
- vs nation
- D+33.1
- Lead
- 3,924
- Total
- 10,166
- vs nation
- D+30.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+24.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 55,2182024 5-year
- Population density
- 789 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 70 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $102,7582024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 13.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+14.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, HI · twin score 96.1
presidential history
Party record book
Hawaii 5th State Senate 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
80.5%
3,958 votes · D+61.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 79.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
57.4%
3,106 votes · R+14.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · 51.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
14,040votes
65.6% of the vote · D+32.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 12,402 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
7,093votes
36.8% of the vote · D+24.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 6,986 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 Obama2008
+53.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+60.5 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +52.1 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
+2.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+2.1 · U.S. D+0.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · −8.4 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 the urban Honolulu neighborhoods of Nuuanu and Punchbowl, this district has posted double-digit Democratic margins across recent cycles, reflecting a dense, multiethnic electorate with strong union and public-sector ties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 14.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.8 points.
A population of 55,218, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $102,758 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 8 and State Senate District 1.
The state-senate 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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