Electoral history of Daniel Inouye

This is a list of results for elections in which Daniel Inouye, a Democrat. He was elected Hawaii's first U.S. Representative in 1959, and was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962. He served until his death in 2012. Inouye is the 2nd longest-serving senator in history.

Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI)

Inouye earlier in his career in the Senate

Almanac

United States Congressional Service
Years	Congress	Chamber	House Majority	President	Congressional District
1957-59	85th	U.S. House	Democratic	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Hawaii’s At-Large
1959-61	86th
1961-63	87th			John F. Kennedy
Years	Congress	Chamber	Senate Majority	Senate Vice President	Constituency
1963-65	88th	U.S. Senate	Democratic	Lyndon B. Johnson Vacant	Hawaii
1965-67	89th			Vacant Hubert Humphrey
1967-69	90th			Hubert Humphrey
1969-71	91st			Sipro Agnew
1971-73	92nd
1973-75	93rd			Sipro Agnew Vacant Gerald Ford Vacant Nelson Rockefeller
1975-77	94th			Nelson Rockefeller
1977-79	95th			Walter Mondale
1979-81	96th
1981-83	97th		Republican	George H.W. Bush
1983-85	98th
1985-87	99th
1987-89	100th		Democratic
1989-91	101st			Dan Quayle
1991-93	102nd
1993-95	103rd			Al Gore
1995-97	104th		Republican
1997-99	105th
1999-2001	106th
2001-03	107th		Democratic(with tie breaking VP) Republican Democratic (through caucus)	Dick Cheney
2003-05	108th		Republican
2005-07	109th
2007-09	110th		Democratic
2009-11	111th			Joe Biden
2011-12	112th

Electoral Results

1959 Election for U.S. Representative of Hawaii's at-large district

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye	51,787	65.33
	Democratic	Patsy Mink	21,702	27.38
	Democratic	Elizabeth K. Young	5,783	7.30
Total votes			79,272	100.00
General election
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye	111,727	68.64
	Republican	Charles H. Silva	51,058	31.37
Total votes			162,785	100.00

1960 Election for U.S. Representative of Hawaii's at-large district

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	135,827	74.37
	Republican	Frederick Titcomb	46,812	25.63
Total votes			182,639	100.00

1962 U.S. Senate election in Hawaii

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye	80,707	93.65
	Democratic	Frank Troy	5,476	6.35
Total votes			86,183	100.00
General election
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye	136,294	69.41
	Republican	Ben Dillingham III	60,067	30.59
	Democratic hold
Total votes			196,361	100.00

1968 U.S. Senate election in Hawaii

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	111,135	87.54
	Democratic	William Lampard	14,357	11.31
	Democratic	Joseph Petrowski	1,469	1.16
Total votes			126,961	100.00
General election
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	189,248	83.40
	Republican	Wayne C. Thiessen	34,008	14.99
	Peace and Freedom	Oliver M. Lee	3,671	1.62
Total votes			235,686	100.00
	Democratic hold

1974 U.S. Senate election in Hawaii

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	207,454	82.91
	People's	James D. Kimmel	42,767	17.09
Total votes			250,221	100.00
	Democratic hold

1980 U.S. Senate election in Hawaii

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	198,468	87.52
	Democratic	Kamuela Price	15,361	6.77
	Democratic	John P. Fritz	12,929	5.70
Total votes			226,758	100.00
General election
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	224,485	77.95
	Republican	Cooper Brown	53,068	18.43
	Libertarian	H.E. Shasteen	10,453	3.63
Total votes			288,006	100.00
	Democratic hold

1986 U.S. Senate election in Hawaii

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	241,887	73.57
	Republican	Frank Hutchinson	86,910	26.43
Total votes			328,797	100.00
	Democratic hold

1992 U.S. Senate election in Hawaii

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	208,266	57.27
	Republican	Rick Reed	97,928	26.93
	Green	Linda Martin	49,921	13.73
	Libertarian	Richard Rowland	7,547	2.08
Total votes			363,662	100.00
	Democratic hold

1998 U.S. Senate election in Hawaii

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	108,891	92.79
	Democratic	Richard Thompson	8,468	7.22
Total votes			117,359	100.00
General election
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	315,252	79.18
	Republican	Crystal Young	70,964	17.82
	Libertarian	Lloyd Mallan	11,908	2.99
Total votes			244,288	100.00
	Democratic hold

2004 U.S. Senate election in Hawaii

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	153,748	95.18
	Democratic	Brian Evans	7,790	4.82
Total votes			161,538	100.00
General election
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	313,629	75.51
	Republican	Cam Cavasso	87,172	20.99
	Independent	Jim Brewer	9,269	2.23
	Libertarian	Lloyd Mallan	5,277	1.27
Total votes			415,347	100.00
	Democratic hold

United States Senate election in Hawaii, 2010^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Daniel Inouye (incumbent)	276,928	74.81%	−0.70%
	Republican	Cam Cavasso	79,830	21.57%	+0.58%
	Green	Jim Brewer	7,756	2.10%	N/A
	Libertarian	Lloyd Jeffrey Mallen	2,953	0.80%	−0.47%
	Independent	Jeff Jarrett	2,695	0.73%	N/A
Majority			197,098	53.25%
Total votes			370,162	100
	Democratic hold		Swing

Presidential elections

1972 Democratic National Convention (vice presidential tally):^[2]

• Thomas Eagleton – 1,742 (59.07%)
• Frances Farenthold – 405 (13.73%)
• Mike Gravel – 226 (7.66%)
• Endicott Peabody – 108 (3.66%)
• Clay Smothers – 74 (2.51%)
• Birch Bayh – 62 (2.10%)
• Peter Rodino – 57 (1.93%)
• Jimmy Carter – 30 (1.02%)
• Shirley Chisholm – 20 (0.68%)
• Moon Landrieu – 19 (0.64%)
• Edward T. Breathitt – 18 (0.61%)
• Ted Kennedy – 15 (0.51%)
• Fred R. Harris – 14 (0.48%)
• Richard G. Hatcher – 11 (0.37%)
• Harold E. Hughes – 10 (0.34%)
• Joseph M. Montoya – 9 (0.31%)
• William L. Guy – 8 (0.27%)
• Adlai Stevenson III – 8 (0.27%)
• Robert Bergland – 5 (0.17%)
• Hodding Carter – 5 (0.17%)
• Cesar Chavez – 5 (0.17%)
• Wilbur Mills – 5 (0.17%)
• Wendell Anderson – 4 (0.14%)
• Stanley Arnold – 4 (0.14%)
• Ron Dellums – 4 (0.14%)
• John J. Houlihan – 4 (0.14%)
• Roberto A. Mondragon – 4 (0.14%)
• Reubin O'Donovan Askew – 3 (0.10%)
• Herman Badillo – 3 (0.10%)
• Eugene McCarthy – 3 (0.10%)
• Claiborne Pell – 3 (0.10%)
• Terry Sanford – 3 (0.10%)
• Ramsey Clark – 2 (0.07%)
• Richard J. Daley – 2 (0.07%)
• John DeCarlo – 2 (0.07%)
• Ernest Gruening – 2 (0.07%)
• Roger Mudd – 2 (0.07%)
• Edmund Muskie – 2 (0.07%)
• Claude Pepper – 2 (0.07%)
• Abraham Ribicoff – 2 (0.07%)
• Pat Taylor – 2 (0.07%)
• Leonard F. Woodcock – 2 (0.07%)
• Bruno Agnoli – 2 (0.07%)
• Ernest Albright – 1 (0.03%)
• William A. Barrett – 1 (0.03%)
• Daniel Berrigan – 1 (0.03%)
• Phillip Berrigan – 1 (0.03%)
• Julian Bond – 1 (0.03%)
• Hargrove Bowles – 1 (0.03%)
• Archibald "Archie" Bunker – 1 (0.03%)
• Phillip Burton – 1 (0.03%)
• William Chappell – 1 (0.03%)
• Lawton Chiles – 1 (0.03%)
• Frank Church – 1 (0.03%)
• Robert Drinan – 1 (0.03%)
• Nick Galifianakis – 1 (0.03%)
• John Goodrich – 1 (0.03%)
• Michael Griffin – 1 (0.03%)
• Martha Griffiths – 1 (0.03%)
• Charles Hamilton – 1 (0.03%)
• Patricia Harris – 1 (0.03%)
• Jim Hunt – 1 (0.03%)
• Daniel Inouye – 1 (0.03%)
• Henry M. Jackson – 1 (0.03%)
• Robery Kariss – 1 (0.03%)
• Allard K. Lowenstein – 1 (0.03%)
• Mao Zedong – 1 (0.03%)
• Eleanor McGovern – 1 (0.03%)
• Martha Mitchell – 1 (0.03%)
• Ralph Nader – 1 (0.03%)
• George Norcross – 1 (0.03%)
• Jerry Rubin – 1 (0.03%)
• Fred Seaman – 1 (0.03%)
• Joe Smith – 1 (0.03%)
• Benjamin Spock – 1 (0.03%)
• Patrick Tavolacci – 1 (0.03%)
• George Wallace – 1 (0.03%)