|median income = $89,314<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=15&cd=02 |title=My Congressional District |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=October 5, 2023 }}</ref>
|median income = $89,314<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=15&cd=02 |title=My Congressional District |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=October 5, 2023 }}</ref>
| percent white = 28.5
| percent white = 28.4
| percent hispanic = 10.7
| percent hispanic = 11.3
| percent black = 1.6
| percent black = 1.2
| percent asian = 25.8
| percent asian = 23.2
| percent morethan one race = 21.9
| percent native hawaiian = 12.5
| percent other race = 11.4
| percent more than one race = 22.6
| percent other race = 0.7
|percent blue collar =
|percent blue collar =
|percent white collar =
|percent white collar =
Revision as of 20:11, 7 March 2024
U.S. House district for Hawaii
Hawaii's 2nd congressional district
Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
When Hawaii and Alaska were admitted to the Union in 1959, both new states were granted one at-large representative to Congress pending the next United States census. In the reapportionment following the 1960 U.S. census, Hawaii gained a second U.S. representative. Instead of creating two congressional districts, the state continued to elect its U.S. representatives at large. Two representatives were first elected in 1962, and Hawaii was first represented by two U.S. representatives on January 2, 1963, upon the convening of the 88th Congress. The 2nd congressional district was created in 1971 when Hawaii began electing its representatives from districts instead of electing at-large representatives statewide.
The 2nd congressional district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+14. It has supported the Democratic nominee in every presidential election since 1988, and has never elected a Republican U.S. representative. In October 2019, Representative Tulsi Gabbard announced that she would not seek reelection, instead choosing to focus on her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In January 2019, Hawaii state senatorKai Kahele announced he would run for the seat in 2020.[4] Other Democrats who announced were David Cornejo, Brian Evans (a self-described "Berniecrat" who ran for the seat as a Republican in 2018), Noelle Famera, and Ryan Meza. Republicans Joseph Akana and Jonathan Hoomanawanui also announced. Kahele won the Democratic nomination on August 8 and the general election on November 3.