Mansfield District Council will be holding mayoral elections on Friday, May 3.
Nottinghamshire Live reporter Joseph Locker will be at the count on Friday for the council count which will begin at around 10am.
You can follow his Twitter updates here .
Results are expected before 1.30pm and the district count will follow at around 2pm on the same day - these can be followed here.
Back in 2001, a referendum took place after more than five percent of the Mansfield electorate signed a petition asking for a council leadership which consisted of a mayor and a cabinet.
This came into place in 2002 and gives the executive mayor political leadership over the council and the community.
The current mayor is Kate Allsop, who is also a candidate for the Mansfield Independent Forum, and her four-year term is coming to an end after being elected in 2015.
There are five candidates standing in the mayoral election, these are as follows:
Andy Abrahams - Labour Party
Kate Allsop - Mansfield Independent Forum
Steve Garner - Independent
George Jabbour - The Conservative Party
Philip Shields - Independent
A full list of candidates for the Mansfield District Council elections can be found here.
Check back here on May 3 for full results, interviews and more.
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