Waikato's student shagger is set to represent thousands and manage millions.

The votes are in and it appears so is the man who claimed he'd had sex with enough women to get elected to Waikato Students' Union.

Alex Winiata, a student at the University of Waikato and candidate for WSU director, made headlines claiming he'd win the election if every woman he "shagged" voted for him.

Alex Winiata's profile in Nexus Magazine.

The fracas saw him resign from his job as a College Hall senior residential assistant amid accusations of a sexist lad culture at the union.

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But provisional results show the students liked his swagger, seeing him rewarded as the highest polling WSU candidate for one of ten director positions.

As of Friday afternoon only 900 out of a potential 12,000 students appear to have voted - based on student numbers from 2015 - making for a turnout rate of close to seven percent.

But their support for Winiata was clear with around half of those voters (451) casting a vote for Winiata.

Recently, it emerged Winiata had posted sexually explicit photos of himself online and complained about the damage to his ASK.FM 'like' ratios when they were taken down.

Winiata did not respond to requests for comment but the election decides the leadership of an organisation that, according to WSU President Indula Jayasundara, has a $500,000 per annum budget and manages a $3.2m trust.

"We are generally happy with the fact that we got through the elections and that we had a turnout of students who actually voted for the elections," Jayasundara.

WSU President-elect William Lewis said he couldn't address issues people had with his incoming board until his term began in January of next year but he said Winiata was very popular.

"On the one side there are the people taking offence, then in the middle you've got a huge body of students that quite frankly don't care, then on the other side you've got this huge group of students that are basically going to come out and bat for him every time."

Students questioned on campus, many of whom appeared not to have voted, seemed surprised by the result.

Matthew Turner, 22, was one of those who didn't vote.

"Wow," he said. "Were people serious when they voted him in?".

"Perhaps not the best look for the uni. Not in like a serious position which I assume it more or less is."

Emelia Rajoo, 19, was surprised.

"I read it about a week ago and I was telling my boyfriend about it and he was like 'oh there's no way he's going to win' and we were making a joke about it actually."

Heidi Groube, 22, thought his election was "gross" and agreed Winiata might have gotten in purely based on the publicity he received.

But Groube also thought it was proof that a 'lad' culture existed at the University.

"They [lads] just think they're entitled because they've had sex with heaps of girls," Groube said.

Will Andrews, 23, also thought a lad culture existed on campus but Waikato wasn't alone among tertiary institutions.

"It would be hard to counteract that alone in the University of Waikato without addressing that in other Universities."