Craig Foss is "stoked" with a "great night for the National Party" as Tukituki voted to keep him in Parliament as their MP.
Mr Foss told Hawke's Bay Today moments ago he was celebrating an incredible landslide victory for National.
"It was the party vote that was most important," he said. "It's the party vote that decides the government and I've always campaigned for the party vote first before people voted for me."
He said he was still waiting for a phone call from his Labour rival, Anna Lorck, who ran her first political campaign this election after a career in public relations.
He thanked the people of Hawke's Bay for keeping him in Parliament and said his campaign team's hard work had all paid off.