Radio New Zealand's Sunday Morning programme has spoken to three of the youngest successful candidates in last month's local body elections: Jack McDonald, 20, who is the grandson of poets James K Baxter and Jacqui Sturm, and the new chair of the Paekakariki Community Board; Rotorua District Councillor Tania Tapsell, 21, who is the great-niece of former Speaker of the House, Peter Tapsell; and the country's youngest local body politician, 18-year-old Latham Martin.