In two weeks, we will know who the new Mayor of Lismore City Council will be for the next four years and who will make up the other ten councillor positions in what has been touted as the most important local council elections in Lismore's history.

Lismore App readers have been engaging with our Meet Your Candidates button. The Mayoral Candidates and the Councillor Candidates has been viewed 18,000 times since it launched two weeks ago.

As we head into pre-poll voting at 9am next Saturday, the Lismore App had a chat with four of the five mayoral candidates. Big Rob was asked to participate but has not agreed to meet in person. He may provide his thoughts via a 15-minute audio stream rather than a Q&A format. This Wednesday, September 4 is the deadline.

Steve Krieg, Vanessa Ekins, Harper Dalton-Earls and John Jenkins all provided responses to questions about the housing crisis, council's financial position, flood mitigation, economic revitalisation and why you should give them your vote.

This can be heard through Talking Lismore, the Lismore App's Podcast series. Each is approximately 20-25 minutes long.

To listen, click on Podcasts on the front page of the Lismore App, near jobs, funerals and games/puzzles or click here for the website version.

Postal voting is now open, you have until 5pm Monday, 9 September 2024 to apply for a Postal vote.

There will be two pre-poll voting venues next Saturday;

• Lismore Returning Officer's Office - 4 Zadoc Street (opposite the Lismore Police Station) with parking off Molesworth Street
• Goonellabah Community Centre - 27 Oliver Avenue, Goonellabah

As of April 2024, the NSW Electoral Commission says there were 31,717 registered electors, an increase on 2021s 31,531. This figure may change as people become aware of changing their electoral details.