WASHINGTON — The majority of donors who gave more than $200 apiece to Linda Lingle in the first quarter of her U.S. Senate campaign live outside Hawaii, according to a Civil Beat analysis of her campaign finance report.

The GOP U.S. Senate candidate got at least 55 percent¹ of her total individual donations from out-of-state, Civil Beat found.

Yet Hawaii donors still gave Lingle more money than any other single state.

The report Lingle’s campaign filed with the Federal Election Commission reveals that residents from 32 states — plus the District of Columbia and even London, England — contributed a whopping $1.5 million to the Lingle campaign last quarter. (Overall, she took in nearly $1.8 million, with about $266,000 coming from political action committees.)

Most of the donors who gave the highest amount possible live in the islands — 58 percent of the 129 donors who maxed out at $5,000 for Lingle are Hawaii residents. The 75 Hawaii donors who each gave $5,000 contributed a combined $375,000 to Lingle last quarter, more than 60 percent of the more than $600,000 that Hawaii donors who gave more than $200 apiece contributed.

About 280 Hawaii donors gave more than $200 each, compared with about 525 donors from outside Hawaii, according to Civil Beat’s analysis.

Rounding out the top five states that were most generous to Lingle: New York, Florida, California and Texas. Together, donors from those states gave her nearly half a million dollars.

At times, Lingle’s campaign finance report reads like an issue of Forbes Magazine — plenty of well-known business leaders from companies like Berkshire Hathaway and Bain Capital are among her donors. She also received money from a long list of attorneys, physicians, finance executives and several former and current staffers.

Hawaii Donors You Might Know

• Mark Bennett, former Hawaii attorney general under Lingle: $5,000
• Cha Thompson, Tihati Productions owner: $5,000
• Stanford Carr, developer: $5,000
• Lenny Klompus, communications director for the Lingle Senate campaign: $5,000
• Marcia Klompus, member of the Aloha Stadium Authority Board spouse of Lenny Klompus: $5,000
• James Haynes II, former member of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents under Lingle: $5,000
• Lawrence Tseu, retired dentist and philanthropist: $5,000
• Clyde Kaneshiro, president of Oahu Waste Services: $5,000
• Patty Ewing, owner of Kong Long Market Center: $5,000
• Marvin Fong, COO of Market City and son of former U.S. Sen. Hiram Fong — Hawaii’s only Republican U.S. senator thus far: $5,000
• Ted Liu, former director of the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism under Lingle: $5,000
• Robert Lee, retired Army major general and Lingle campaign manager: $5,000
• Josh Feldman, CEO of Tori Richard: $5,000
• Terry Thomason, owner of Alston Hunt Flyod & Ing and Republican appointee to the 2012 state Reapportionment Commission
• Karin Holma, lobbyist for the Building Industry Association of Hawaii: $5,000
• Georgina Kawamura, former director of the state Department of Budget and Finance under Lingle: $5,000
• Ritchie Mudd, president of Roofing and Building Supply: $3,500
• Ruth Limtiaco,The Limtiaco Company (public relations): $2,500
• Roger Godfrey, president of Times Supermarket: $1,000

Out-of-State Donors You Might Know

• Dean Kamen, entrepreneur and inventor of the Segway, among other products: $5,000
• John Whitehead, former Goldman Sachs executive and chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation: $5,000
• U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.: $2,500
• John Connaughton, managing director of Bain Capital: $2,500
• Alan Miller, CEO of Universal Health Services of Delaware: $2,500
• Walter Havenstein, CEO of defense contractor SAIC: $2,500
• Charles Noski, Bank of America CFO: $2,000
• Robert Nichols, president of Financial Services Forum: $1,500
• David Gottesman, Berkshire Hathaway board member: $1,000
• Charles R. Schwab, chairman of Charles Schwab Corporation: $1,000
• Don Nickles, CEO of lobbying firm The Nickles Group: $1,000
• Paul Gaynor, CEO of First Wind: $1,000
• Dennis Bassford, CEO of Money Tree: $1,000
• Christine Whitman, Republican former governor of New Jersey: $1,000
• Former New York Gov. George Pataki: $284

1. The Federal Election Commission does not require U.S. Senate candidates to itemize individual donations of $200 or less. Lingle reported $55,340.61 in unitemized donations. There is no way to tell from the FEC report how much of that $55,340.61 came from Hawaii donors versus out-of-state donors. For the purpose of this analysis, Civil Beat counted all unitemized donations as from Hawaii donors.