1884 Hawaiian legislative election

none Legislative elections were held in the Hawaiian Kingdom on 6 February 1884Kuykendall Ralph S. The Hawaiian kingdom, vol. 3, 1874-1893, The Kalakaua dynasty https://ulukau.org/ulukau-books/?a=d&d=EBOOK-KINGDOM3.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txPT----------- 2024-05-28 271 to determine the composition of the 28 member Hawaiian House of Representatives. The elections saw the emergence of the Independent (Kūʻokoʻa) Party that opposed the policies of the administration of King Kalākaua and Premier Walter M. Gibson. Despite the growing opposition, Gibson's National Party was able to maintain a majority in the House of Representatives.Moblo Pennie 1999 Leprosy, Politics, and the Rise of Hawaii's Reform Party https://www.jstor.org/stable/25169428 The Journal of Pacific History 34 1 75–89 0022-3344 Background After King Lunalilo’s brief reign ended with his death, Kalākaua was elected as King of Hawaiʻi, largely by Americans who favored his pro-American foreign policy. However, he would shock his supporters by taking the counsel of Walter Murray Gibson, a former Mormon missionary and supporter of Native Hawaiian rights. He would quickly become Premier of the Kingdom and be called Kalākaua's "Minister of Everything", setting much of Hawaiian domestic and foreign policy until 1887.Adler Jacob https://hdl.handle.net/10125/63552 The Fantastic Life of Walter Murray Gibson: Hawaii's Minister of Everything Kamins Robert M. 1986 University of Hawaii Press 978-0-8248-8367-6 Many of the wealthy White plantation owners of Hawaiʻi opposed Gibson's dominance of government and policies. In 1883, before the elections, wealthy white business professionals, such as Lorrin A. Thurston, Sanford Dole, and William R. Castle, convened with Native leaders who opposed Gibson's administration and formed the loose Independent Party, led by Thurston.Kuykendall Ralph S. The Hawaiian kingdom, vol. 3, 1874-1893, The Kalakaua dynasty — Ulukau books https://ulukau.org/ulukau-books/?a=d&d=EBOOK-KINGDOM3.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txPT----------- 2024-05-30 ulukau.org 280-281 The supporters of King Kalākaua and W. Gibson would form the National Party (also known as the Government Party). Results After a close election, the Gibson's National Party maintained control of the House of Representatives, although now starkly divided with the rising Independents. File:1883 House of Representatives Kingdom of Hawai'i.svg National Party 15 Independent (Kūʻokoʻa) Party 13 Moblo References Category:Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom Category:Hawaii elections Legislative Hawaii Category:February 1884 in Oceania