Wanganui deputy mayor Hamish McDouall will again dip his toes into parliamentary politics.
The second-term Wanganui District councillor has been given the nod by the Labour Party to stand in the Whanganui electorate for the 2014 election.
This will be the third time Mr McDouall has stood for Labour in the electorate. He is hoping it will be third time lucky, after unsuccessfully challenging National's MP for Whanganui, Chester Borrows, in the 2008 and 2011 elections.
Mr McDouall, elected unopposed for the Labour candidacy, said he was confident of victory in next year's election.
"In the 2011 election, I reduced Chester's majority by 1500, and this was at a time when the tide was going out for Labour, so this is very encouraging for me."