The 2004 United States Senate election in Hawaii took place on November 2, 2004 alongside other elections to the

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in other states as well as elections to the

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and various state and local elections. Incumbent

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U.S. Senator

Daniel Inouye Daniel Ken Inouye ( ; September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. Beginning in 1959, he was the first U.S. representative f ...

won re-election to an eighth term in yet another landslide with over 75% of the vote, despite the state's relatively close single-digit margin of victory for

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in the concurrent presidential election.

Major candidates

Democratic

, incumbent U.S. Senator

Republican

Campbell Cavasso Campbell "Cam" Cavasso (born October 14, 1950), is an American politician, businessman and perennial candidate. A Republican, Cavasso served three terms in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1985 to 1991, and would later run for both chamb ...

, former State Representative and candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2002

General election

Predictions

Results

Inouye won every county with at least 70% of the vote. His best performance was in

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, where he won with about 80%; also was Cavasso's weakest performance, getting just 16.5% of the vote there.

References

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Daniel Inouye