Hawaii: who should earn your vote for Congress in 2026
Opinion · The paper’s scorecard
Hawaii: every race for Congress on the 3 November 2026 ballot, and how the candidates measure up against our standards.
Sitting and former members are scored on the same key votes, read from the official House and Senate roll calls; each vote links to the record. Candidates who have never served in Congress have no votes to score, and outside the battlegrounds we have not researched them, so they are marked as not scored. Where only one candidate could be measured, the mark rates that record on its own; it is not a verdict on the opponent. How the marks work · All states
District 1 D+13
No mark
Ed Case
Democrat · incumbent
Scored on 27 key votes · total -3
- ✗Smaller government
- ~Small business over giants
- ✓Live and let live
- ✗Light touch on tech
- ~Free speech
- ✗No surveillance state
- ✓Home first, open trade
- ~Checks on power
- ✗Right to bear arms
- ✗Hard on violent crime
With us (9)
Adriel Lam
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
District 2 D+12
No mark
Brenton Awa
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
Jill Tokuda
Democrat · incumbent
Scored on 21 key votes · total -4
- ✗Smaller government
- ✗Small business over giants
- ?Live and let live
- ✗Light touch on tech
- ~Free speech
- ✓No surveillance state
- ✓Home first, open trade
- ✗Checks on power
- ✗Right to bear arms
- ✗Hard on violent crime
With us (8)
- Voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which civil-liberties groups opposed as a limit on campus speech. Source
- Voted for the amendment requiring a warrant to search Americans' communications under FISA Section 702 (it failed 212-212). Source
- Voted for the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, barring agencies from buying Americans' data without a warrant. Source
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