Ballot Access News
Hawaii held primaries on Saturday, August 11. All ballot-qualified parties in Hawaii must use the primary to nominate candidates. Hawaii has five parties: Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, and Constitution. The Constitution Party didn’t have any candidates this year. Greens are running a gubernatorial candidate for the first time since 2006.
Hawaii held primaries on Saturday, August 11. All ballot-qualified parties in Hawaii must use the primary to nominate candidates. Hawaii has five parties: Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, and Constitution. The Constitution Party didn’t have any candidates this year. Greens are running a gubernatorial candidate for the first time since 2006.
Independent candidates did well in the primary. Hawaii forces
non-presidential independent candidates to run in the open primary, and
they must outpoll a partisan winner, or else poll 10% of the total
primary vote for their office, or they can’t be on the November ballot.
All three independents for U.S. Senate outpolled the Libertarian.
Also, both independent candidates for Governor outpolled the Green
gubernatorial nominee. However, the law says that when more than one
independent for a single office meets the primary vote test, only the
highest vote-getting independent can appear on the general election
ballot.
Here is a link to the unofficial returns.
Here is a link to the unofficial returns.
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