# Les Ihara

Les Ihara is a Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate for district 10.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Hawaii Senate, district 10
- Serving since: 2013-01-16
- Current term: HI 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/94e42ecd-2e4d-4502-8b50-c1c6324617f1

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/94e42ecd-2e4d-4502-8b50-c1c6324617f1 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

0% of Ihara’s itemized money in the 2022 cycle came from Hawaii, the lowest of 12 State Senate Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.55 (standard error 0.13), from 2 donors and 2 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 66% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Votes (HI 2025–26 session)

26 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Hawaii Senate 99.5%).

Key votes:

- 2026-05-06 · voted yea · Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 1). · SB 2074 RELATING TO STATE FACILITIES. · pass · https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/SB2074/
- 2026-02-06 · voted yea · Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). · SB 2043 RELATING TO INSURANCE. · pass · https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/SB2043/
- 2025-04-30 · voted yea · Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 1). · SB 1221 RELATING TO STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. · pass · https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2025/SB1221/
- 2025-04-10 · voted yea · Reconsider: Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 3). · HB 1194 RELATING TO MIDWIVES. · pass · https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2025/HB1194/
- 2025-04-08 · voted yea · Report Adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). · HB 1378 RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS. · pass · https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2025/HB1378/

## Legislation (HI 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 20 bills: 20 reached committee, 6 passed one chamber, 2 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 115. 30.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Hawaii Senate 49.9%; rank 23 of 24).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 3309: RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. (in committee, 2026-02-02) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/SB3309/
- SB 3323: RELATING TO ECOSYSTEM RIGHTS. (passed one chamber, 2026-02-11) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/SB3323/
- SB 3291: RELATING TO THE WAIKIKI WAR MEMORIAL COMPLEX. (in committee, 2026-02-08) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/SB3291/
- SB 2754: RELATING TO CIVIC EDUCATION. (passed one chamber, 2026-02-18) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/SB2754/
- SB 2751: RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-03) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/SB2751/
- SB 2396: RELATING TO PROPERTY. (passed both chambers, 2026-04-28) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/SB2396/
- SB 1555: RELATING TO FAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES. (in committee, 2025-01-27) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2025/SB1555/
- SB 1558: RELATING TO ELECTIONS. (in committee, 2025-12-08) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/SB1558/
- SB 1557: PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO PROVIDE FOR A CITIZENS' ASSEMBLY AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITIZENS' ASSEMBLY TO PROPOSE TO… (in committee, 2025-12-08) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2026/SB1557/
- SB 1556: RELATING TO TRUSTED PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES. (in committee, 2025-01-27) https://openstates.org/hi/bills/2025/SB1556/

## Campaign money (2022 cycle)

Itemized receipts $500 (State Senate Democrats median $64.8K). 0% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/legislature/memberpage.aspx?member=180&year=2013
- X: https://x.com/LesIharajr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/les.ihara
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC17jwQep9IoHguiwDAmqjTQ
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/les-ihara-62822216/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/94e42ecd-2e4d-4502-8b50-c1c6324617f1