Who will be mayor?

By the end of today Rotorua should know who will lead the city for the next three years.

Today is the final day of elections for the Rotorua mayoralty, Rotorua District Council, Lakes District Health Board, Rotorua Lakes Community Board and Bay of Plenty Regional Council.

An election progress report is due out this afternoon, with a preliminary result due tomorrow.

It will be then that Rotorua finds out if either Janine Bosma, Steve Chadwick, Rob Kent, Helen Hindmarsh or Kevin Winters will hold the mayoral chains for the next three-year term.

The city will also find out who its 12 district councillors will be.

Today is also the last day to get your voting papers in. If you still want to vote you must drop your papers off at the Rotorua District Council customer centre no later than midday.

Make sure you keep an eye on our website, www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz, from about 2pm today for the first election progress report.

We will be updating the site today and tomorrow with the latest election news from around the Bay of Plenty and Taupo.

Final election results are due no later than October 23.

As of yesterday, 38.01 per cent, or 17,358, of Rotorua's 45,663 registered voters have had their say in Rotorua's local government elections. This is up 2.85 per cent compared with the same time during the 2010 local body elections.