MICHAEL Bloyce says it's time for mayoral candidates to have the guts to declare their political allegiances instead of pretending to be independents.

Mr Bloyce hit back at comments by mayor Bob Abbot that locals wanted party politics to be kept out of local government, saying many sitting councillors and past mayors had been members of political parties on the Coast.

"Why pussyfoot around? Get out and tell people what you believe," the LNP supporter said.

Cr Debbie Blumel has repeatedly said she is running as an independent despite her history with Labor.

Mr Bloyce said while he did not see party-run politics on councils on the Coast for some time, he said the next council was more likely to be "pretty conservative" so it was better to have a conservative mayor.

Mark Jamieson said he had never been a member of political party in his 30-year history in media and believed it was important to be able to work with people from all sides.

He said he recently met Wayne Swan and had meetings with former Premier Anna Bligh as well as attending many LNP functions.

He said he was getting a lot of support from a wide variety of businesses on the Coast, as evidenced by an online poll where he had 36% of more than 1000 votes.

Mr Bloyce is running second in the poll with 17% while Cr Blumel and Kim Edwards were third on 14%. Brett Winkler was polling just 7% despite being hailed the winner of a mayoral debate by Mr Abbot.

Pharmacist Warren Blee followed with 5% while Matthew Ryan-Sykes was on 2% and Coolum Beach's Jim Hopkins on 1%.