Four years ago The Nationals held the seats in Bathurst, Orange, Dubbo and Barwon.

Following on from Saturday's election, they continue to hold the seat in Bathurst. That's it. 

After a very close by-election two years ago, the seat of Orange went to the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party. In what's been described as a 'landslide', candidate Phil Donato retained his seat on Saturday night.

In Barwon, Kevin Humphries held the seat for the National's before the election, but Roy Butler took it for the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party with 55.99 per cent of the two candidate preferred vote ahead of The Nationals Andrew Schier, who sits on 44.01 per cent. 

And in Dubbo we still aren't sure - though what we do know is that the decision will come down to mere percentage points at the end of the count.

Four years ago Troy Grant held a 20 per cent margin.

After Saturday, Dugald Saunders is just one percent (at time of writing) ahead of independent Mathew Dickerson in the two candidate preferred voting.

They are sitting just 177 votes apart. 

The numbers are also showing us the Shooters Fishers and Farmers popularity has also grown in the past four years in the Dubbo electorate with candidate Lara Quealy taking 13.08 per cent of the vote so far, sitting in forth behind Country Labor candidate Stephen Lawrence who had 14.31 per cent as of Sunday afternoon. 

While the Coalition remained in government after the election, just what this means for the Dubbo electorate is still unknown.

It looks like at this stage it's going to be a few more days before we know who is going to be representing us in state parliament ... watch this space. 

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