ELECTORAL VOTES 4

2008 ELECTION Strong Obama

ABOUT
HAWAII

Hawaii, the 50th state, joined the Union in August 1959. The state had three electoral votes in the 1960 election, and has had four ever since. Hawaii is “blue”, having voted Democratic in every election except the 1972 and 1984 contests, when the state gave wins to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, respectively. (In those two landslide elections, the Democratic candidate won only one state plus Washington, D.C.) In 2004, John Kerry defeated George W. Bush by a 54% to 45% margin in Hawaii.