Hawaii gubernatorial election, 2018 (A New American Century)

The 2018 Hawaii gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Hawaii, concurrently with a special election to Hawaii's Class III Senate Seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Primary elections were held on August 11, 2018. In Hawaii, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run in separate primaries and are then elected on the same ticket. Incumbent Democratic governor David Ige was eligible, and ran for, re-election to a second term in office. Ige's dismal approval ratings, coupled with a struggling economy in the Aloha State despite the nationwide boon, lead to a primary challenge from U.S. Representative Colleen Hanabusa. In a bitter, scathing campaign between the two, Hanabusa was able to narrowly defeat Ige on August 11, accomplishing what Ige himself did to then-incumbent Governor Neil Abercrombie in 2014. This made Ige the second consecutive governor of Hawaii to lose renomination.

The Republicans nominated State Senate Minority Leader Andria Tupola for Governor and business executive Marrisa Kerns for Lieutenant Governor. State Senator Josh Green won the Democratic Party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor.

On Election Day, Tupola and Kerns defeated Hanabusa and Green by a margin of 1.1%, making it one of the closest elections in Hawaii's history. Andria Tupola became the youngest governor in the United States upon her inauguration, as well as the first Samoan American to serve as governor.