Successful first time Hastings District Council candidate Damon Harvey is "so stoked" to have been elected a councillor.
He said he was nervous today until provisional results were announced, giving him a comfortable margin.
"It is just the unknown- there is no control of it and there are no progress updates," the Sport Hawke's Bay chairman said.
While he is a first-time candidate he is not short of experience. He has helped his wife Anna Lorck in her bid for the Tukituki electorate in the parliamentary elections.
Both are founders of Attn Marketing in Havelock North, which has managed several campaigns for other people.