Municipal election: Key numbers behind the 2016 campaign

New Brunswickersor about 542,458 of them anyway will have the chanceto elect municipal politicians or members of their local education and health councils on Monday.

Just in case you haven't been following the election campaigns closely in your local areas.Here are some key numbers about Monday's elections that may want to know:

• Total candidates in all municipal, regional health authority and district education council elections:1,173
• Preliminary number of voters:571,800
• Number of voters with a contest to vote for:542,458

Municipal races

The majority of the candidates in Monday's election will be running for either mayor or a spot on their local council.

There are 777 positions to fill and a lot of candidates vying for those spots.

• Total candidates for the municipal elections:1,016
• Total male candidates:738
• Total female candidate:284
• Number of mayoral positions:56
• Total candidates for mayor:184
• Total male candidates for mayor:141
• Total female candidates for mayor:43
• Number of councillor positions:721
• Total candidates for councillors:832
• Total male candidates for council positions: 597
• Total female candidates for council positions:235

There are 160 acclamations111 for councillor positions and 49 for mayoral spots for municipal contests across the province.

But there are some hotly-contested races in other communities.

• Bathurst: (21 candidates for sevenpositions)
• Miramichi (18 candidates for eightpositions)
• Campbellton (17 candidates for sixpositions)
• Memramcook (14 candidates for sixpositions)

District education council races

The future of smaller schools has been controversial subject in recent years as district education councils have been looking at closing some buildings.

Citizens will be picking who will be making those tough decisions for the next four years.

• Number of DEC positions: 36
• Total candidates for District Education Council positions:102
• Total male candidates:70
• Total female candidates:32
• Total acclamations: 31

Regional health authority races

This will be the fourth time voters have had the chance to elect local people to their regional health authorities. The first election was held in 2004.

• Number of Regional Health Authority positions: 14
• Total candidates for RHA positions:55
• Total Horizon Health candidates: 28
• Total Vitalit Health candidates: 27
• Total acclamations: 2
• Total male candidates:31
• Total female candidates:24

Getting ready to vote

The quadrennial municipal elections are a massive undertaking for the province's elections agency.

Elections New Brunswick has printed 1,611,250 ballots for the election.

The agency has also hired more than 4,500 workers for election day, who will be working at one of 353 polling stations.

There will be 581 tabulation machines used between the advance polls, special polls and regular election polls.

Over the two days set aside for advance voting, 47,082 New Brunswickers showed up to cast ballots. That is well above the 39,902 advance votes cast four years ago.

The Albert-Westmorland region has experienced the highest voter turnout, which includes Riverview, Dieppe, Sackville and Memramcook.

Saint John was second with4,348 ballots cast over the two advance polling days.

The fewest number of voters turned outin the Charlotte and Carleton-Victoria regions, with 1,049 and 1,136 votes, respectively.