Clayton Mitchell is looking set to secure a place in Parliament as a List MP for NZ First.

Current voting results have the party with 11 seats. It will definitely make it over the five per cent threshold, putting Clayton – listed sixth on the party list – in the Beehive.

Clayton Mitchell (right) with NZ First candidates at Devonport Towers.

Clayton is celebrating at the Devonport Towers tonight, after a 'tough day beginning with bacon and eggs” and the arrival of family from across the North Island.

He says it's been a night of mixed emotions.

'I feel like a surgeon, I'm jelly on the inside, but the outside is the part that matters. I feel really good. It's all mixed emotions, I'm excited, nervous, anxious, but all positive.”

With Simon Bridges just announcing he has won the Tauranga seat, Clayton praised Simon's political campaign, and says for him it has always been about the party vote.

'We're doing very, very well. It's not over yet, we won't be announcing anything until the final figured have come through.”