Whanganui young people are invited to join a Candidates Q&A Facebook Live event on the Whanganui District Council's Youth Committee Facebook page on Wednesday, October 7 at 7pm.
The event will be hosted by local first-time voter Teekay Kawiti and Youth Committee member Chez-Ashli Peter.
Teekay and Chez say the Facebook Live event will be more exciting than getting election information in other ways because "rangatahi can voice their questions and opinions as the Live is on and receive a raw, real-time answer from the representatives".
The two event hosts say the message they want to get out to young people is that voting is for everyone – "you don't have to be a councillor or someone with a high level of education to vote".
"You can be an ordinary teenager who is interested enough to have questions and thoughts about political issues such as the cannabis and euthanasia referenda."