After finishing neck and neck in the primary, Maui Mayoral candidates Charmaine Tavares and Alan Arakawa are fighting their way to the finish-line to garner votes in Tuesday's General Election.
Only a few hundred votes separated the current Mayor and former Mayor in September's race.
The top two candidates in the race for Maui's next Mayor are both familiar with the job. But they differ on how they plan to oversee the County's three islands, with an annual budget of a half-billion dollars.
"I've been getting a lot of endorsements, a lot of momentum is coming our way," says Alan Arakawa.
"I can't help but feel there's a ground swell of support out there," says Charmaine Tavares.
Team Tavares has been campaigning into the home stretch.
"I'm kind of not the one who goes out front and yells and screams about all the stuff that's happening, I'm so busy doing," says Tavares. "And I think that we have to move forward together and now is not the time to change."
During her first term, Tavares says she was dealt the cards of a nationwide economic downturn. But believes, she has remained fiscally responsible while adopting programs to grow jobs and boost the economy.
"We worked very hard, our focus was on trying to bring tourism back since it's 80% of our economy here on Maui especially," she says.
At Alan Arakawa's campaign, he also has a plan to get Maui back on track.
"My job will be to come back in, use the experience I have and try to correct a lot of the challenges that have been left because of an inexperienced Administration," says Arakawa.
Arakawa has received his former competitors endorsements from the primary.
He's critical of the current administration, and says if elected he would develop tax incentives for businesses and expedite shovel ready projects.
"Here on Maui, the Administration we have went out of their way to shut down vacation rentals, they've gone out of the way to close down a lot of home occupation," he says.
To give an idea of how close this race could be, when Tavares became Mayor four-years ago she won by about 17-hundred votes to beat Arakawa who was the incumbent.
