The candidates for both mayor and councillor have been finalised, and the ballot draw has been made for the September 14 Lismore Local Council Election.

With four weeks until Lismore goes to the polls, the Lismore App introduces the new 'Meet Your Candidates' button.

On the front page, you will see an orange button.

Click on the button, and you will see every Mayoral and Councillor candidate for the upcoming election.

As we go live, there will be some missing elements or missing candidates. These will be finalised over the weekend when all the information is received from the respective candidates.

For ease of viewing, we have displayed the candidates by Group name, so you can see which candidate belongs to which group.

There are profile photos and profile biographies for most candidates. However, Big Rob and his group and ungrouped John Jenkins are not spending any money on their campaigns. The Lismore App wanted to cover its cost for back-end time to load the profiles ($50 per Councillor and $100 for Mayor), but both declined to participate in the Meet Your Candidates button.

The 2024 Lismore Council Elections will be different from previous elections.

Two regular parties, the Our Sustainable Future party and the Animal Justice party are not running this year, leaving two party-affiliated groups (Labor and The Greens), two Grouped Independents (Steve Krieg and Big Rob) and one Ungrouped candidate (John Jenkins).

Steve Krieg will be looking to build on his 2021 primary mayoral vote of 54.51%, while Vanessa Ekins will want to increase her 14.97% by picking up Elly Birds 11.96% and try to force Steve Krieg's vote below 50% so it goes to preferences.

Harper Dalton will be looking to hold Darlene Cooks 9.27%, Big Rob to grow his 5.55% and anything above 3% would be a win for John Jenkins.

The council race will also be interesting. The Steve Krieg ticket will want to build on its six seats (including mayor) in 2021, while again, The Greens will be hoping to pick up the approximate 2,700 votes the Our Sustainable Future party won to get another two people elected to council for the next four years.

With Harper Dalton-Earls leading the Labor ticket for the first time, Labor will be looking to record its traditional vote to get him voted onto council.

Big Rob will be hoping to increase his vote from 2021 to feel confident he will become a second-term councillor. While it appears John Jenkins will be making up the numbers at this early stage. It is traditionally very difficult for an Ungrouped candidate to get enough votes to win a seat on council.

If you are wondering how to vote, especially if you have moved out of the area and haven't changed your voting details with the NSW Electoral Commission or you are living outside of the area but intend to move back, postal voting packs start being delivered on Monday.

To apply for a postal vote, click here or download a form here. Applications close on Monday, September 9.

If you are voting in person, you can do so from Saturday, September 7 to Friday, September 13 through early voting (criteria does apply) and, of course, on the day at various polling venues from 8am to 6pm on Saturday, September 14.

More voting stories to come in the coming weeks.