Among them new leaders and new seat contenders, although the familiar faces of Stuart Nash and Meka Whaitiri are there again - smiling, or in Stuart's case positively beaming.
But of course the name of the game for many people as voting day begins to creep in very quickly is that of the "new faces".
Or maybe it could more likely be likened to a game of cards as an awful lot of shuffling has been going on.
Three springs ago the chirpy grinning face of John Key was there to accompany his Bay candidates.
And his grin sort of tended to indicate that he kind of knew the job was going to be his.
But he's not there any more...the chap he initially took the helm from has stepped back into the "I'll lead the grins for 2017" race.
Beaming Bill English...although I've heard several people mention that his smile does not have the "A" for assuredness that his predecessor possessed.
And as is the tradition, he takes one side of the bright blue billboard while while the candidate for the seat in that patch takes the other.
In the valley of the Tuki Tuki, that spot is taken by former Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule, while in Napier it very much is a new face in the form of David Elliott.
Gosh they dress well these chaps.
The only time I ever inhabited a suit like that was when I had to hire one for my daughter's wedding although Billy Boy, Lawrie and Davy would have been slightly miffed with the tie I wore that fine day.
It was red.
There is not a red mark to be seen on any National hoarding, but I won't labour this point.
Nor is there any sign of the shade of blue on the Labour jobs.
For National, David is effectively the new kid on the block and takes the smiling place of the former Napier candidate, Wayne Walford.
He is effectively untested in the political arena but he clearly knows his way around a billboard.
There is confidence in evidence...good smile, good suit...all he needs is a catch-phrase...all I spotted were the words "party vote".
He is up against it, is Mr Elliott, no doubt about that.
Stuart Nash has pretty well gone out and painted the town red.
He seems to be everywhere, and he goes for the full frontal on a couple of the giant banners...no hang on, I need to re-phrase that.
Not for him being pictorially cut off at the waist...he stands there with a wide grin and a confident stance of arms folded and trousers pressed - an air of both casualness and composure and appropriately he states he is "standing up for Napier".
You'd think he'd done this before.
Over the river there is an equally familiar political face, and as a billboard model Lawrence Yule is very experienced.
For it was only last year his face was adorning a great swathe of whatever material those billboards are made of.
But then he was smilingly declaring that he was "proven" and sought another stint for the Hastings mayoralty.
But the lad whose face appeared on the billboard with John Key a couple of years earlier changed all that.
Craig Foss stepped away from the political stockyards, as did his gaffer of course.
So Bill stepped up and so did Lawrence and as it was back in 2014 when you look at the contenders this time the boss is on the left and the candidate is always on the right.
Mmm, there must be something in that.
For upon the original Labour "party vote" billboards Jacinda Ardern was on the left...in what the opposition clearly see as the boss's spot, and Andrew Little was on the right.
Anna Lorck, standing for the Tuki Tuki seat, caused a stir by stating "Your local MP - Here for you" on some of the early billboards but then got the design crew to change that to "For a local MP - Here for you."
However, they didn't down tools for long as a few days later they were out labouring again...Mr Little had stood down.
One thing those original party vote hoardings did get right though was the line "a fresh approach".
And like how they were positioned for the picture...did the billboard creators know something we didn't?
In terms of numbers, the major parties fire up a swathe of billboards across their designated patches, and placement is everything...to a degree.
I picked one major arterial road in Napier (Kennedy) and one in Hastings (Pakowhai) for a casual count...as one does have to keep one's eyes on the road.
So the figures may be askew, but only by one or two.
Both stretches are reasonably wide and well endowed with feeder roads and subsequently with lots of traffic movement.
On the Napier stretch I spotted around eight for Stuart as well as one for his Ikaroa Rawhiti team-mate Meka Whaitiri and a recent newcomer to the stretch - Jacinda Ardern.
And crikey, even the lights turned red when I approached the intersection with Riverbend Rd.
There was one standard National Party billboard made up of words only and two billboards showing David and Bill.
Not a lot of action in nearby Taradale Rd - two for Stuart and two for the Greens.
There are (like everywhere across the land) smiles a-plenty across Hastings with Anna Lorck getting the nod on the Pakowhai Rd stretch to the tune of an eight-grin billboard result, while Lawrence was a five-billboard grinner.
There were a couple for the Greens as well as a general National party vote one and an appearance from Meka as well as Maori Party's Marama Fox.
Anna also took the Clive stretch with five in that zone against two for Lawrence, but both shared the spoils along SH2 into Hastings from there.
In Clive the billboard confrontations are notable - they are only a few dozen metres apart in some spots, and two neighbouring houses each feature an opposing billboard.
Could be some interesting chats over the fence.
There is also a face-off near Whakatu with Marama and Meka both lined up, side by side on the same fence.
Anna has the road into Havelock North and the Tuki valley well covered...literally.
There were about 10 as well as a straight Vote Labour one, while Lawrence had about six spots and National party vote about four.
Two for the Green Party on that stretch also, which equalled their tally on Pakowhai Rd.
Marama and Meka also featured there.
At the end of the day it appeared the Labour labourers had laboured longer across the twin cities and surroundings, and had there been a red sunset I would not have been surprised.
Whether people are influenced by the sight of a billboard and the great smile applied upon it is questionable.
But the same could arguably be said about the succession of polls from all quarters.
So what's happened to that succession since Labour switched leadership tack and the Greens saw a co-leader stand-down and walk-outs?
Big swings.
So every three years the grins will be attached to posts and fences because you just never know.
● Remarkable billboard statistic: Of the around 60 billboards sighted for this electoral exercise only one had a felt-tipped moustache added to it...but I'm not going to say who received that facial makeover.