The election campaign has been a "weird" time for the family of the late Green Party co-leader Rod Donald.
For the first time, they are outsiders.
"Usually it feels like it lasts forever, it's extremely stressful, our lives are transformed for over a year," said Mr Donald's eldest
daughter, Holly, 24. "But in saying that, we know how proud Dad would have been of this campaign."
Mr Donald's family gathered with the party and supporters yesterday, on the third anniversary of his death, to close the party's 2008 campaign.
Mr Donald died from an inflammation of the heart muscle, a rare complication of campylobacter infection.
Jeanette Fitzsimons, who shared the party leadership with Mr Donald, told supporters he would have been proud of where the Greens were in the polls, and "buzzing" about what lay ahead.
Mr Donald's partner, Nicola Shirlaw, said election campaigns had been "terribly, terribly tough" times in her household in the past.
"And this one's happening around us, really. After Rod died, a lot of people said the Greens would never survive, and of course they were wrong.
"Because, unlike other small political parties, the Greens have always been more than one individual."
Mr Donald's third daughter Zoe, 16, is standing for student representative on her school's board of trustees.
She will find out if she has made it on Tuesday.
"I'm getting really excited about it - I suppose it's just in my blood."
The anniversary of her father's death was a sad time, knowing he had so many good years left in him when he died.
But Zoe said she was proud of the Greens, and especially the targeting of young voters with "the coolest campaign ever".
She admits she probably won't be watching the results tomorrow night.
"I'm a teenager - I do things. But I will try to find out how we do."
