New Zealand First's Ron Mark said he didn't know what to feel.
"I've driven close to 600km across the electorate in the past two days and all the feedback I received was truly wonderful," he said.
"We don't do our own polling, we can't afford that, but the support out there has absolutely phenomenal, I've been humbled by it."
Mark said the support from his campaign team has also been superb.
"They're new and young and have been brilliant," he said.
And, as number two on the New Zealand First party list, he's assured a seat back in Parliament, but said he'd have preferred to have the mandate from constituents.
Green Party candidate, John Hart said had hoped the Greens party vote was a little bit higher, but he was philosophical.
"The thing this time will be the large number of special votes, which tend to favour left parties," he said.
"And, no matter what, the sun will still come up tomorrow."Despite the wet and cold weather on Friday, there were queues at Dannevirke's advanced polling booth at The Hub.
"I've never seen anything like this before," Norsewood's Heather Cheer said.
Mid afternoon yesterday, the queues were long as people waited to cast their vote for the Wairarapa and Ikaroa Rawhiti seats or make special votes, but in the morning the queues had stretched out of The Hub into the carpark.
"It's good to see people out voting. It doesn't matter who they are voting for, they're doing it," Warwick Clayton said.
"And there are lots of young ones in the queues, that's great."
And the weather turned it on for voters in Dannevirke today, with the sunshine encouraging plenty of people into the polling booths.