Saturday is election day and there will be 17 polling places open across the electorate for people to cast their votes.

The majority of public schools in Bathurst will be serving as polling centres on the day, and are open from 8am to 6pm.

Saturday also marks the end of a long campaign for the 68 candidates on the ballot paper.

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There are 12 groups and nine solo candidates, and most of them are feeling quietly confident that they will get one of the nine seats available on Bathurst Regional Council.

Mayor Ian North is one of the people confident the community will elect him for another term, saying he has received a lot of positive feedback from people over the campaign.

"People have rung me up to say, 'Look, we support you. We think you're doing a great job as mayor. We want to see experienced people in there', but people have been honest, too," he said.

"They want to see ones likely myself in there, but they also want to see some new blood, so I'm quietly confident."

The one thing that has disappointed him, though, was the "nastiness" of the campaign.

Despite that, he is still wishing all the candidates well for the election.

If he does get re-elected as a councillor, he has made it clear that he will put his hand up for the mayor's position again.

"Of all the people there and all the ones coming in, with great respect to everyone, I know the town well, I've got enormous experience, we've done so much work behind the scenes in the last four years that you need a good leader to take that through, and I'm that person," Cr North said.

He and his team have decided not to have a presence at the polls on Saturday, but someone who voters will come across is Robert 'Stumpy' Taylor.

His team will appear as Group I on the ballot paper and, if elected, it would be his first term as a councillor.

"We're quietly confident, but I think everyone is. We're not over confident, but I think we could get the numbers to get over the line," he said. "Not sure about any number two, whether we'll get those numbers to get any of the others on the team over, but I'm quietly confident that I can be elected."

Mr Taylor is expecting Saturday to be a big day, as his information suggested that only around 12,000 people had pre-polled as of Friday.

It was anticipated that around 17,000 would utilise pre-poll for this election.

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