Steph Cooke has retained the seat of Cootamundra winning the vote at all but two booths in the electorate.
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Ms Cooke topped the vote at booths from Cowra to Murrumburrah. The only two booths that didn't go to Ms Cooke were located in Gundagai where Country Labor candidate Mark Douglass topped the vote.
"All I can say is: thank you," Ms Cooke said in a statement released over the weekend.
"It is a great honour to be given the chance once again to represent the communities of the Cootamundra electorate," Ms Cooke said.
"This result is due to a lot of very hard work by a lot of dedicated and selfless people to whom I owe a great deal.
"To have received more than 63 per cent of the first preference vote and more than 76 per cent of the two candidate preferred vote is an outcome I could only have dreamed of, which makes Cootamundra as I write this the third-safest Nationals seat in NSW.
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"We can now look ahead to the next four years and continue as we have done since I first took office in October 2017 - giving everything I have got so that this wonderful part of NSW is represented with passion, dedication and integrity.
"I promise to uphold the honour bestowed upon me by the community and represent the Cootamundra electorate in NSW Parliament to the absolute best of my ability.
"There is still so much more work to be done for all of the communities in the Cootamundra electorate and I am looking forward to getting back out on the road and meeting up with as many people as I possibly can," Ms Cooke said.
As of Monday morning, on first preference votes Ms Cooke had received 21,943 votes (63.1 per cent), Matthew Stadtmiller 5697 votes (16.36 per cent), Country Labor's Mark Douglass 5423 votes (15.57 per cent), The Greens Jeffrey Passlow 988 votes (2.84 per cent), Sustainable Australia candidate Joseph Costello 454 votes (1.3 per cent) and Independent Jim Saleam 318 votes (0.91 per cent).
The initial vote had been completed at all booths but voting is continuing at all early voting centres and of ivote and postal votes.
