With just three days to go until the polls close for the local elections only 29.14 per cent have had their say in who they want to be their mayor and district councillors.
Figures released yesterday showed that just 35,874 people out of 123,097 from the five local body areas in the Hawke's Bay Today circulation area, Napier City and Hastings, Central Hawke's Bay, Wairoa and Tararua have cast their votes.
The number of people voting remained below the line in Hastings with only 14,574 votes received, which was 27.42 per cent of the potential 53,143 residents.
Napier was similar with 10,944 votes returned, which was just 25.52 per cent of the potential 42,876 votes.
In the 2013 election, Napier had an eventual polling of 47.76 per cent, the highest in its postal vote history, but the lower poll to date this year is being put down to the lack of a mayoral contest, with first-term Mayor Bill Dalton re-elected unopposed.