AUGUSTA (AP) — The incessant television ads supporting or tearing down candidates are over. Campaign phone calls and mailings have stopped. Now it’s up to Maine voters — and they’re expected to show up in large numbers Tuesday to choose a governor, two U.S. representatives and other officials.

Election officials were expecting up to 55 percent of eligible voters — more than turn out in most elections — to cast ballots, drawn in large part by the top-of-the-ticket race.

Laurie Moore, manager of the Bear’s Den Restaurant and Tavern in Dover-Foxcroft, said she thinks many voters are disenchanted with the status quo and itching to cast their ballots.

“For the first time in my life, I’m going to vote completely Republican,” said Moore, adding that she’s always voted for the person and not the party in the past. “We’re disgusted by the way things are being run.”

Democrats, who now hold the governor’s office, both congressional seats and a majority in the state Legislature, were taking nothing for granted. Arden Manning, manager of the party’s coordinated campaign, said getting their supporters out to vote was critical if Democrats were to win major offices Tuesday.

In the five-way governor’s race, Republican Paul LePage has been leading in polls, while independent Eliot Cutler and Democrat Libby Mitchell were hoping to overcome his edge on Election Day. Independents Shawn Moody and Kevin Scott trailed far behind.

In the congressional races, Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree was getting a strong challenge from Republican Dean Scontras in the 1st District. In the 2nd District, Republican Jason Levesque was hoping voter discontent with incumbents would propel him past poll-favored Democratic Rep. Mike Michaud.

Also on the statewide ballot is a referendum on whether to allow a resort-casino in western Maine’s Oxford County, two bond issues totaling nearly $15 million and state House and Senate races.

While the candidates pushed to get out the vote, Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap estimated that 50-55 percent of Maine’s eligible voters will turn out Tuesday, but said the figure could be influenced by things like by the weather and voters who remain undecided and decide to sit out the election. Maine’s forecast called for sunny and dry weather.

The expected turnout, comparable to other open-seat gubernatorial races but lighter than in presidential election years, will be bolstered by absentee balloting. Dunlap said about a third of the turnout is expected to be by absentee ballots.

Republicans, sensing anti-incumbent fervor as strong in Maine as it is nationwide, said in an e-mail urging supporters to vote that they see their first serious shot at “taking back this state government.” A Republican hasn’t been elected governor since 1990 and both houses have remained under Democratic control, with a couple of exceptions, since 1982.

Cutler’s campaign, hoping to get a boost from 11th-hour changes of heart, told voters who cast absentee ballots for someone else but now support the independent they could ask local officials for new ballots so they can vote again. But that is not possible if the ballots have already been processed.

Dunlap said the law on taking back ballots is somewhat vague, but election officials’ policy is that changing one’s mind does not qualify as sufficient reason for absentees to revote. However, any ballots that are reissued will be marked as challenged and the issue could be decided in court in the event of a recount, said Dunlap.

In Portland, two voters tried to rescind their ballots by late Monday afternoon, but neither was allowed to do so because their ballots had been processed, said Kathy Jones, elections administrator.