NAPIER'S current mayor and second-term mayoral candidate Bill Dalton says he hopes people get engaged by voting in this year's local government election.
He said he hoped the voter turnout would not be low.
"I would certainly like to see people participate in the democratic process of local government."
Local Government New Zealand is running a campaign to encourage people to get involved after numbers have begun to decline.
The campaign aims to lift voter numbers above 50 per cent for the first time since 1998.