The winners of the Democratic and Republican party nominations for governor and lieutenant governor in last month’s primary election all outspent their opponents on their way to victory, with state Sen. Josh Green becoming the first lieutenant governor candidate in Hawaii to spend more than $1 million in the effort.

That’s according to final primary reports filed with the state Campaign Spending Commission by Friday. The reports cover the period between July 28 and the Aug. 11, the day of the primary election.

Green’s numbers don’t include several hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by Be Change Now, a super political action committee that flooded the airwaves with television ads in support of Green, but without the Big Island doctor’s knowledge or consent. In all, the Super PAC spent nearly $4 million in hopes of influencing the Democratic primaries for governor and lieutenant governor and a Honolulu City Council race.

Incumbent Democratic Gov. David Ige spent $2.64 million to defeat U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, his biggest challenger, who spent $2.18 million in her unsuccessful bid. From July 28 to Aug. 11, Hanabusa spent $289,675 to Ige’s $267,988.

Ige reported receiving $2.28 million over the campaign while Hanabusa reported total receipts of $2.17 million. During the last two weeks of the campaign, Hanabusa outraised Ige $206,467 to $120,489.

Ige reported $206,883 in cash on hand, which did not factor in $47,591 in unpaid expenditures, leaving him a cash surplus of $159,292.

That’s a large jump on state Rep. Andria Tupola, the Republican nominee for governor, who reported $11,731 in available cash, which does not factor in $11,220 in outstanding loans that leave her a surplus of $511.

Tupola reported $318,134 in receipts over the entire campaign, $16,322 in the last two weeks. That’s far greater than the $42,889 collected by former state Sen. John Carroll, who received only $50 in the last two weeks.

Tupola spent $320,083, far more than Carroll’s $50,540.

Green bested the other four Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor both in terms of how much money he had available and how much he spent during the primary. Green reported $1.05 million spent, the most ever for an LG candidate in a Hawaii primary. Coming in second was state Sen. Jill Tokuda, who spent $856,421. Former Board of Education member Kim Coco Iwamoto, who finished fourth on Primary day, spent $703,695; Kauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho, who finished third, spent $428,570; and former state Sen. Will Espero, who placed fifth, spent $100,895.

Green reported $610,089 in cash raised during the campaign period, which was less than the $787,355 collected by Tokuda. But Green already had $493,438 in the bank carried over from his previous legislative campaigns while Tokuda came in with $40,428.

Of the other three major Democratic LG candidates, Carvalho reported $308,341 in contributions received while Iwamoto collected $255,346 and Espero $70,313. Iwamoto’s total does not include $442,000 the candidate loaned to her campaign.

Among the GOP candidates for lieutenant governor, Marissa Kerns spent $19,070 to second-place finisher Steve Lipscomb’s $10,149 and third-place finisher Jeremy Low’s $9,817.

A large percentage of each of their campaigns was through self-financing. Kerns loaned her campaign $15,000, Lipscomb loaned his campaign $5,000 and Low loaned his campaign $19,801.

Be Change Now, the independent expenditure committee financed by the Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters, reported spending $3.76 million in advertisements and mailers on behalf of Hanabusa, Green and Honolulu City Council candidate Tyler Dos Santos-Tam, who finished third in his bid to unseat incumbent Councilwoman Carol Fukunaga. It also ran advertisements and sent mailers voicing opposition to Ige and Fukunaga.

Among the TV ads was the so-called “38 minutes” commercial that reminded voters it took the state 38 minutes to tell the public that the January missile alert was false.

The super PAC reported $2.63 million in disbursements through the campaign season and $1.13 million in unpaid expenditures. It listed $377,632 in available cash and $945,326 in unpaid expenditures, leaving a deficit of $567,694.

Be Change Now reported $587,728 in disbursements from July 28 to Aug. 11 alone.

The expenditures went out not just to traditional media outlets but also to Facebook, Google and Pandora through “media buys” via two Washington, D.C. firms — Buying Time LLC and Talbot Digital.

The carpenters council, the largest construction union in the state, also was one of the key sponsors of the Pacific Resource Partnership’s $3.6 million campaign aimed at defeating former Gov. Ben Cayetano’s bid for Honolulu mayor in 2012.

As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United v FEC ruling, super PACs are allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money either in support or in opposition to an individual’s campaign or ballot issue, so long as they make no direct contributions to the candidate and do not coordinate their efforts with that of a candidate’s campaign.

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Three takeaways from the post-primary campaign spending reports:

>> Democrats David Ige and Josh Green, and Republicans Andria Tupola and Marissa Kerns, all outspent their opponents in winning their party’s nominations for governor and lieutenant governor.

>> Ige reported having $159,292 available for the general election as of Aug. 11, while Tupola had $511.

>> Super PAC Be Change Now reported spending nearly $4 million to influence voters in three races and got a favorable result in only one of them, Green’s lieutenant governor primary win.