Primary Election FINAL 2010 Results

By Wendy Osher (Click on story and Scroll down to see results)

(Update: 7:23 a.m. 9/19/10)

The Final Summary Report for the 2010 primary election was released shortly before 7:30 this morning.  In the Mayor’s race it will be a rematch between current Mayor Charmaine Tavares and former Mayor Alan Arakawa.  Tavares had 7,307 votes—268 more than Arakawa who garnered 7,039.  Randy Piltz was in third with more than 1400 votes separating him from the top two vote-getters. 
 
In West Maui, Elle Cochran and Alan Fukuyama advance with 7,980  (27.7%) and 5,693 (19.8%) of the vote respectively.  In South Maui, challenger Don Couch managed to top the tally with 11,524 votes versus the 10,686 votes from the incumbent Wayne Nishiki.  Both advance to the general election in November.  In the Makawao-Haiku-Paia race, it’s Mike White and Kai Nishiki on top with 10,150 votes for White and 6,805 for Nishiki. 
 

Click for full image. Former Mayor Alan Arakawa (right) being interviewed by Alakai Paleka (middle) along with students of UHMC. Photo by Wendy Osher.

Click for full image. Maui Mayor Charmaine Tavares (left) reviews results on the set of the UHMC election results broadcast. Photo by Wendy Osher.

Click for full image. Mayoral candidate Randy Piltz waits to be interviewed after the 2nd Summary report is released. Photo by Wendy Osher.

State Rep. Joe Souki wins his Democratic primary race. He meets up with challenger Dean Schmucker in the General. Photo by Wendy Osher.

In the contested Democratic race for District 8, incumbent Joe Souki advances with 53.2% of his party vote, defeating his challengers Kama, Cerizo and Hughey.  Souki faces Dean Schmucker in November. 
 
In the uncontested District 9 race, incumbent Democrat Gil Keith-Agaran with 3,176 votes will face Republican Jeff Hoylman with 333 votes.
 
In District 10, Ramon Madden garnered 408 votes, defeating Chayne Marten with 199 for the Republican nomination. Madden will face incumbent Democrat Angus Mckelvey in the general. 
 
District 11 House Rep. Joe Bertram III holds on to the Democratic nomination defeating Netra Halperin and Johanna Amorin with an overwhelming 44 percent of the vote.  Bertram faces uncontested Republican George Fontaine who garnered 713 votes. 
 
District 12 Republican Laurie Rinaldi defeats Ray Bashkingy with nearly 60% of the party vote.  Rinaldi faces incumbent Democrat Kyle Yamashita who was uncontested in the primary. 
 
With all precincts reporting in the District 13 House Race, Mele Carroll had a total of 3,049 democratic votes compared to republican challenger Meiling Akuna with 371.  Both meet up again in November.
 
In Maui’s lone senate race, incumbent democrat Shan Tsutusi takes 7,483 votes, and faces republican challenger Eric Seibert who garnered 777 party votes.
 
With all 242 precincts across the state it will be Neil Abercrombie taking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination with 59% of the party vote or 136,321 votes compared to the 37 percent from Hannemann who had 86,676 votes.  Abercrombie will face Duke Aiona in the General Election on November 2nd. 

(Updated: 7:23 a.m. 9/19/10–FINAL Summary Report)