Vancouver is caught in the midst of a political junkie's dream with the number of elections still to come.

So it's not surprising that the candidates in the Vancouver-Burrard by-election have been pounding the pavement to garner support. As a result, voter fatigue may just make it all that much harder to predict a winner.

Former Parks Board commissioner Spencer Herbert and former Vancouver Canucks owner Arthur Griffiths are vying to represent Vancouver West End residents. Griffiths is the Liberal Party candidate. Herbert is representing the NDP.

It is a riding where the key issues include homelessness, renter's rights and the economy.

"This government has demonstrated the unique differences - one - low taxes, low unemployment and a balanced budget if not surpluses - where the NDP are high taxes, high unemployment, and deficits,'' said Griffiths.

But some local businesses have endorsed the NDP.

"I think people are talking about the economy,'' said Herbert. "But mostly what they're talking about is two economies - there's one for the liberals for Gordon Campbell and his friends, and there's one for the rest of us, where we're getting squeezed,'' he said.

Whatever the issues, it seems many people are just tired of listening.

"Are you going to vote in the by-election?'' one Vancouver-Burrard resident was asked.

"Which one's that for?," was the reply.

And so pushing the issues has taken a back seat to the bigger push to just get voters to the polls.

"When you've got to go to the polls three times in a row, and nothing happens, and this last election just proves it, Harper's still there,'' said resident Michael Dick in a street interview

The federal election was a couple of weeks ago. The municipal election is in just a few weeks, and then there's the provincial election in May. So it seems like this by-election for residents in Vancouver-Burrard may be one election too many.

"There's tons of politics on the news and I think if you're really not in there it's hard to kind of keep track of what's going on and who they're talking about and who's part of what party,'' said Sarah Afshar in an interview with CTV.

And that's where an underdog could have an advantage. Marijuana activist Marc Emery is also on the ballot.

"I'm hoping that if the voter turnout is low I can get 3,000 to 4,000 votes and slip by Spencer Herbert and Arthur Griffiths,'' Emery said.

The winner will become the last MLA to hold the Vancouver-Burrard riding because come the general election, it will be split into two new ridings -- Vancouver-West End and Vancouver-False Creek.

With a report by CTV British Columbia's Reshmi Nair