Maui's mayoral race is set, with incumbent Richard Bissen facing County Council vice chair Yuki Lei Sugimura in a rematch shaped largely by the recovery from the Lahaina wildfire.

• Bissen led the primary comfortably, taking 47% to Sugimura's 34%, and now moves on to the November 3rd general election.
• A win would make Bissen Maui's first mayor to earn a second term since Linda Lingle in the 1990s, bucking a long streak of one-term leaders.
• The central issues are keeping locals able to afford to stay on Maui and keeping residents safe, both tied to the aftermath of the 2023 Lahaina disaster.
• Sugimura enters the runoff as the clear underdog after finishing well behind in the primary.

Outlook: The two head to a general election on November 3rd, with Bissen the favorite but needing to overcome Maui's history of turning out incumbents.