Hawaii State and County Candidate Campaign Contributions, 2015-2025

Campaign contributions received by Hawaii state and county candidates from January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2025, including amended reports from the prior ten years. The dataset is hosted by hicscdata.hawaii.gov on the Socrata platform and was last updated on April 22, 2026. Columns suggest detailed records of monetary and non-monetary contributions, including contributor, candidate, and geographic information.

Use Cases

• Analyzing contribution trends by Party, Office, and Election Period using the 30 available columns.
• Mapping donor influence by correlating Contributor Type, Employer, and Occupation with Candidate Name and Amount.
• Identifying out-of-state influence by filtering on InOutState and Non-Resident (Yes or No) columns.
• Geospatial analysis of contributions using Mapping Location, County, City, and Zip Code fields.

Strengths

• Includes a long temporal range covering contributions from 2015 through 2025.
• Offers multiple data formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF) for accessibility.
• Contains detailed columns for both monetary (Amount) and non-monetary (Non-Monetary Description, Category) contributions.

Limitations

• Row count and total size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• License and author information are unknown, which may affect terms of use.

Provenance

Source

hicscdata.hawaii.gov

Collection Method

Likely collected from mandatory campaign finance disclosure reports filed with the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission.

Time Range

January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2025, with amended reports including transactions dated prior to 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 22:26:01; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Hawaii state and county jurisdictions.