In the race for the seven Kauaʻi County Council seats in the 2024 general election, current or former council members appear to have won the first six seats, according to the second printout at 12:24 a.m. Wednesday.

Current council members Ross Kagawa and Billy DeCosta are also likely to lose their seats.

The vote was led by incumbent council member Bernard Carvalho, who also served as mayor of Kauaʻi from 2008 to 2018. He received 12,144 votes (7.3%). Carvalho also placed first in the primary.

Incumbent Mel Rapozo, a retired police officer, came in second with 11,320 votes (6.8%). He was first elected to the council in 2002.

Arryl Kaneshiro, a former Kauaʻi County council member from 2014 to 2022, was fired in 2022. In that election he received 10,313 votes (6.2%) for third place. He is a sheep farmer who is also employed as an agricultural consultant for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 1,400-acre private property on Kaua'i's North Shore, Wired reported in December 2023.

Incumbent Felicia Cowden finished fourth with 9,714 (5.8%). Cowden has served in the role since 2018, so this will be her final term before leaving.

The council's current deputy leader, KipuKa'i Kualiʻi, placed fifth with 9,689 votes (5.8%). Kuali'i was first elected to the council in 2011. At the time, he was said to be the first openly gay politician in the region and the third openly LGBTQ elected official in the state.

Councilmember Addison Bulosan placed sixth with 9,605 votes (5.7%), 84 votes more than Holland in seventh place. He came seventh in the primary.

Rounding out the top seven is relative newcomer Fern Holland, who was nine votes ahead of incumbent Kagawa.

Second print results at around 12:24 a.m. Wednesday showed the biggest change from the primary was for Kagawa, which fell four places to eighth. He received 9,472 votes (5.7%).

Holland, who works for the nonprofit Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action, received 9,481 votes (5.7%).

Kagawa was first elected to the council in 2012 and served in that position until 2020. He narrowly lost the last election in 2022, finishing in eighth place, but returned to office in February 2023 to replace former council member and current state representative Luke Evslin.

After the August primary results, Holland said, “I think I kind of expected to come ninth because I know there are eight established names that I'm running against. And once again I expected that we would be right on the heels of the established companies.”

Holland moved up two spots after finishing ninth in the primary.

DeCosta, who was the only council member to place in the top seven during the primary after finishing eighth, moved down another spot in the general election. He placed ninth with 7,575 votes (4.5%).

After the primary, DeCosta said he expected to win more votes in the general election: “I think a lot of my supporters don't actually vote in the primary. They are more likely to be general election voters. And the reason for that is there's a strong presidential campaign going on across our country, and I believe that's what's going to bring out all the voters during this time.”

In August, Kauaʻi Now reported that DeCosta was placed on leave earlier this year after he was found to have sent “inappropriate messages” to a student on social media following an investigation by the state Department of Education.

Candidates who placed 10th through 14th were fisherman Abe Apilado Jr. with 4,394 votes (2.6%), retired fire captain Butch Keahiolalo with 3,933 votes (2.4%), Sherri Cummings with 3,336 votes (2nd). .0%), Jakki Nelson with 2,716 votes (1.6). %) and Bart Thomas with 2,600 (1.6%).