Bertrand 'Bert' Kobayashi is an American politician and a Democratic member of the

Hawaii House of Representatives The Hawaii House of Representatives is the lower house of the Hawaii State Legislature. Pursuant to Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution of Hawaii, amended during the 1978 constitutional convention, the House of Representatives consists ...

since November 6, 2012 representing District 19.

Elections

*2012 When

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Representative

Barbara Marumoto Barbara Marumoto is a former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, Hawaii State House of Representatives. She represented Kaimuki, Hawaii, Kaimuki, Waialae, and Kahala as a Republican Party (United States), Republican. Biography Marumo ...

retired and left the District 19 seat open, Kobayashi won the August 11, 2012 Democratic Primary with 3,272 votes (54.5%) against former Representative

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, and won the November 6, 2012 General election with 6,749 votes (62.5%) against Republican nominee Darrell Young.

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at the Hawaii State Legislature * Place of birth missing (living people) Living people Democratic Party members of the Hawaii House of Representatives 21st-century American legislators Hawaii politicians of Japanese descent 1944 births {{Hawaii-politician-stub