Bissen, Sugimura advance to general election in race for Maui County Mayor
Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen is headed into the November general election after leading Saturday’s primary by more than 12 percentage points, according to the most recent preliminary voting results. In a race where Bissen received 15,709 votes to Maui County Council Vice Chair Yuki Lei Sugimura's 11,438, only 2.7% cast blank votes in the primary. In the Maui County Council races, blank votes ranged from 15.7% to 18.2%. The third vote-getter, P. Denise La Costa, received 11.6%, or 3,940 votes — votes that could shift elsewhere in the general election, along with those cast for ...
