Northland's youngest candidate in the 2014 general election says she will stand again in 2017 if the party selects her.
Labour candidate Willow-Jean Prime, 31, earned just over 8000 votes in the race for the Northland seat won convincingly by National's Mike Sabin with more than 16,800 votes.
Mrs Prime, a lawyer and current Far North District councillor, said she would now carry on with her council role and her PhD in law at Waikato University, and spend some time with her husband, Bay of Islands College teacher Dion Prime.
She had a lot of encouraging feedback during her campaign and would stand again at the next election if selected.
She had also campaigned for the 2013 local body elections but the general election campaign was on a much bigger scale requiring more money and a bigger team built from the ground up.