[2] In the 2024 primary election, Saiki lost his seat in a close race with Kim Coco Iwamoto.

[3] Saiki was born in Honolulu, Hawai‘i on July 17, 1964 and grew up in Kailua, Hawaii.

Saiki earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a Juris Doctor from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 1991.

[5] He is a former staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii and assistant to state Representative David Hagino.

[11] In the 2022 Democratic Primary Saiki once again faced Kim Coco Iwamoto for the nomination.