East Honolulu voters included in Honolulu’s August 8 mail primary

East Honolulu voters are included in Hawaii’s Aug. 8, 2026, primary election, which will be conducted by mail and includes four nonpartisan City and County of Honolulu Council contests.

The Hawaii Office of Elections set the primary date in its 2026 election proclamation. Because East Honolulu is within the City and County of Honolulu, the Council contests are part of the local-government election affecting the community.

Mail primary includes four Council contests

The Aug. 8 election is a statewide primary, while the four Honolulu Council contests are nonpartisan. The official proclamation confirms the number of Council contests included, but the available material does not list candidate names or district-specific ballot measures.

The proclamation also does not identify which Council district applies to a particular East Honolulu address. Voters should therefore not assume that all East Honolulu residents are assigned to the same Council district without address-level confirmation.

That distinction matters because the primary includes local offices, but the available official information does not establish the specific Council contest for each address in the community. The election has not yet occurred, and no results are available.

What happens after the primary

A possible second election is scheduled alongside the Nov. 3, 2026, general election for any contest in which no candidate receives a majority. That means the Aug. 8 primary may determine a winner in some contests, while others could continue to the November ballot under the process described in the proclamation.

The Hawaii Office of Elections also says the state’s voter-registration appeal boards will sit during voting and at other times determined by clerks. The boards are part of the election process described in the proclamation.

For East Honolulu residents, the key confirmed dates are Aug. 8 for the mail primary and Nov. 3 for the general election and any required second elections. The City and County of Honolulu maintains an election calendar and local election-administration information for county voters, including August 2026 election-related dates.

Additional official materials would be needed to identify candidates, ballot measures or the Council district connected to an individual East Honolulu address. Until then, the confirmed local development is that the community’s voters are included in a mail primary featuring four nonpartisan Honolulu Council contests.