Dalene McCormick

Dalene McCormick is the Republican candidate for Hawaii House of Representatives District 5 in the November 3, 2026 general election, facing Democratic incumbent Jeanne Kapela.[1] In a Ballotpedia survey, she described a career in management and named integrity, transparency and service as her platform.[2]

McCormick's career experience includes working in management.[1] In a Ballotpedia survey, she said she and her husband moved to Hawaii in 2016 after becoming empty nesters, that she continued her management career in Kona, and that she had earlier worked as a contractor for the State of California.[2] She said she served as an American Red Cross disaster responder during the 2018 Kilauea eruption and again in a two-week deployment after the Lahaina fires.[2]

McCormick said in the survey that her platform is integrity, transparency and service, and that she supports practical approaches to law and oversight of publicly funded programs.[2] She named fiscal responsibility, government accountability and protecting individual freedoms as the policy areas she is most passionate about, and said public testimony should carry more weight in lawmaking.[2]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.