Last year, up against well-profiled Lawrence Yule, who was vacating the Hastings mayoralty for a National Party seat in Parliament the majority was cut to 2813. Lorck's 15,467 votes was Labour's biggest return in the electorate since Rick Barker's last triumph in 2002.
Ask about 2020 then, when she's sure Jacinda Ardern and Labour will retain the place they won, joined by Winston and Co to turf out the Nats last October, she says it's 18 months before she has to make any decision about whether she'll stand again.
She maintains the drive and Labour Party commitment however as chair of the Tukituki Labour Electorate Committee, with she says a "fantastic" team, part of which she took to be with the last few days of Shanan Halbert's campaign in the Northcote by-election last weekend.
While it was not a winning one, on the scoreboard, she was as buoyed as ever by the result.
Meanwhile, while tracking a few issues – Napier Port ownership and driver licensing seem to be current biggies – she's getting right back to Attn!
It's the PR and marketing firm she and husband, fellow former newspaper reporter and now Sport Hawke's Bay chairman and Hastings District councillor Damon Harvey started 15 years ago, and with the work and lifestyle balance agreeable, she says: "I'm in a good space now. A really good space."
Needs a bit of space, as it happens, nearing the end of a New Year's pledge to go clothing-free shopping for six months and just about ready to make at least one more commitment – to see if she can do it for the next six months as well.
"It's amazing what you can dig out of the wardrobe and mix and match," she says.
Presumably it saves a bit of time, which, one might say, she needs a bit of also.
Among everything else she loves the garden – "I garden, I garden, I love gardening." In addition to that, politics and work, she still follows her youngest at sport.
She does, however give herself as much time as she can, an early-riser, 4.30am, "habit" from growing up on a farm in Central Hawke's Bay, from where she went to Terrace school and Central Hawke's Bay College, bowling off afterwards to tell the local paper, the Central Hawke's Bay Mail they needed her as a cadet reporter.
They were good political times, around the local government reform of 1989. She covered the last meetings of the old Waipawa and Waipukurau councils and the first of merged entity the Central Hawke's Bay District Council.
Her own first appearance in governance was probably on the Hunter Park Kindergarten committee and her next, she thinks, was when elected to the board of the Hawke's Bay Chamber of Commerce.
An interesting mix, considering the political battlefront, but she seems to have come through unscathed, balancing the political dream and the commercial operation to a degree where she says she's thankful people judge on performance, trust and relationships.
In any event, she says she learns most from those with whom she disagrees, or those who disagree with her, and adds: "In my work I have challenged both sides of the political spectrum."
She is not letting go of such matters as the housing crisis, education and health, but it has steeled her for another fight, convinced the Napier Port company is one way or another headed for divestment, from it's ultimate owners, the Hawke's Bay Regional Council.
She says, and it seems the council may agree, that this should not happen without the public agreeing, and she will be pushing if need be for a referendum held in conjunction with the 2019 local government elections.
Stage 3 or Stage 4 motherhood – the one where the children are starting to leave home – gives her an extra insight into the plights of the modern teenager and early-adult, among them an urgent to get all, equally, trained to drive properly and be licensed to do so.
"I've had three teenagers and their friends go through the system," she says, knowing that there are many who, for a range of reasons, don't, with a variety of negative consequences, but including cost.
"With Labour in Government," she says, "we have a far greater opportunity now to fix it. As a local and national campaign, this is a big one. I'm passionate about it."
"This isn't just about young people, so we need to invest in making sure all our drivers are safer."
As for that political future, she concedes she has been asked to stand for local government election.
But there's still that undeniable.
"I was out door-knocking the other day, and a chap said: I can see you love politics."
"I love people," she says. "That's what keeps me going"