In plain words: Who gives political money here, and who receives it.
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Hawaiʻi County Council — who funds the council
Every campaign contribution reported to candidates for the Hawaiʻi County Council, from the Hawaiʻi Campaign Spending Commission public dataset. Giving is lawful — this maps the money so it can be read beside the votes.
$1,378,756
raised by the council
2,702
contributions
$42,036
from real-estate interests
3%
real-estate share
The real-estate slice. Of the money raised, $42,036 across 80 contributions came from real-estate interests (developers, brokerages, land holders). Where land-use and zoning sit before a council, that is the slice to watch — placed here as a question to verify, never an accusation.
Why there is no contracts×donors page here — yet
No contract awards for this county appear in the State's HANDS open-data awards feed — so contracts×donors parity cannot be computed here yet. That the county's spending is not in open data is itself the question worth pressing.
The question. Money is the input to a campaign; a vote is the output of the office. When a council's contracts are not published to open data, the public cannot set the two ledgers side by side — and the harder it is to read the money beside the votes, the more it matters that someone does.
Source: Hawaiʻi Campaign Spending Commission — “Campaign Contributions Received By Hawaii State and County Candidates” (hicscdata.hawaii.gov, dataset jexd-xbcg), office = “Hawaii Council”. Amounts cleaned and summed in Python. Real-estate slice from the same dataset, donor-employer/industry tagged. Documented facts and open questions, not findings of wrongdoing · generated 2026-07-09 07:25 HST.