Polls have closed across Nova Scotia in elections that will see dozens of new faces elected to town and municipal councils, including new mayors for the province's two biggest municipalities.

Nova Scotians will head to the polls Saturday as municipal elections are held across the province. In person voting with paper ballots will be available for each municipality, with polls open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Locations of polling stations can be found on each municipality’s website.

He replaces outgoing Halifax mayor Mike Savage who led the city for over a decade, having been elected to the post in 2012, and who was named to become Nova Scotia's next lieutenant-governor. Fillmore is a former city planner who was first elected as a Halifax member of Parliament in the 2015 election that brought Justin Trudeau to power.