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The Hawaii Senate Safe D

This is one of our least certain forecasts — state-legislative races have almost no district polling and many of these maps were redrawn. Read the range, not the midpoint. How this is modeled →

Forecast · candidate-independent chamber model

Democrats are favored to hold control of the Hawaii Senate.

Chance of D control>99 in 100Expected Democratic seats 22.0 of 2580% range 2024
D 2225 seatsR 3
PVID+13
Seats up in 202613
Chamber size25
District by district

25 seats, one per district. Hover a district for its seat; the table below opens with the closest races and carries the exact values.

Rating band
Striped = seat changes partyModeled seats use forecast paint; legal carries and terrain remain explicitly distinct
Forecast margin — pale at Even, deep at safe Not on the 2026 ballot (staggered term)

Census Bureau 2025 1:500,000 cartographic boundaries — simplified geometry for thematic mapping, not legal district lines.

DemocratRepublican
21Modeled D-vs-RRepublican — 67 in 100Mike GABBARDR+4.3
20Modeled D-vs-RRepublican — 69 in 100Markus OWENSRida CABANILLA ARAKAWA · Kurt FEVELLA · Bob MCDERMOTTR+5.0
19Modeled D-vs-RDemocratic — 74 in 100Rachele F. LAMOSAO · Inam Ikeda Perreira RAHMANElijah PIERICKD+6.4
15Modeled D-vs-RGlenn WAKAI — 93 in 100Glenn WAKAID+14.3
17Modeled D-vs-RDemocratic — 95 in 100Nani H. BROWN · Donovan DELA CRUZD+15.8
14Modeled D-vs-RDemocratic — 97 in 100Donna Mercado KIM · Christy Kikue MACPHERSOND+18.5
8Modeled D-vs-RRonald D. KOUCHI — 98 in 100Ronald D. KOUCHID+19.9
5Modeled D-vs-RTroy N. HASHIMOTO — 99 in 100Troy N. HASHIMOTOD+25.2
2Modeled D-vs-RDemocratic — >99 in 100Tanya Yamanaka AYNESSAZIAN · Joy SAN BUENAVENTURA · Frederick F. FOGEL (O)D+27.6
25Modeled D-vs-RDemocratic — >99 in 100Chris LEE · Bobby SILVAD+30.8