Hawaii gubernatorial election, 2010

2006 ←

November 2, 2010

→ 2014



Nominee	Neil Abercrombie	Duke Aiona
Party	Democratic	Republican
Running mate	Brian Schatz	Lynn Finnegan
Popular vote	222,724	157,311
Percentage	57.8%	40.8%

County Results

Governor before election

Linda Lingle
Republican

Elected Governor

Neil Abercrombie
Democratic

Linda Lingle
Republican

Neil Abercrombie
Democratic

The Hawaii gubernatorial election of 2010 was held on November 2, 2010 to determine the next Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii. The winning candidates will serve a four-year term from 2010 to 2014. Incumbent Republican Governor Linda Lingle was term-limited in 2010 and not eligible to run for re-election. Former congressman Neil Abercrombie was declared the winner, defeating lieutenant governor Duke Aiona. Abercrombie was sworn in as the state's seventh (and its fifth Democratic) Governor on December 6, 2010.

The winners of the 2010 lieutenant governor primary election became the running mates of the 2010 gubernatorial nominees.

List of candidates per State of Hawaii Office of Elections candidate report.

Eleven candidates ran for their political parties' nominations in the lieutenant governor primary election on September 18: seven Democrats, two Republicans, one independent, and one Free Energy Party candidate.

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