Dugald Saunders has earned 52.02 per cent of the Dubbo votes, after the counting was finalised on Thursday.
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The distribution of preferences has been finalised. After narrowing the results down to Independent Mathew Dickerson and Mr Saunders from the Nationals, Mr Saunders come out in front by 1550 votes.
Mr Saunders finished on 19,920, while Mr Dickerson was on 18,370.
First preferences
Mr Saunders received the highest number of first preferences. He took out 37.42 per cent of the first preferences, or 18,131 votes.
Next was Mr Dickerson with 28.42 per cent or 13,771. He was followed by Country Labor candidate Stephen Lawrence at 14.76 per cent or 7151 votes and Shooters, Fishers and Farmers candidate Lara Quealy at 6636.
The Green's Rod Pryor received 1711 formal votes, or 3.65 per cent overall, while Australian Conservatives candidate April Salter had 681 or 1.41 per cent.
Finally, Joanne Cotterill from the Flux Party received 0.65 per cent of first preference votes, or 314.
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Polling places
The most popular polling booth in the Dubbo state district on election day was at Orana Heights Public where 2090 votes were cast. It beat Buninyong Public as the busiest by a single person.
The only other polling place to have more than 2000 voters was Dubbo College Delroy Campus.
The smallest polling place - not counting those who went to the Sydney Town Hall - was Lue Public School where just 59 people went to vote.
Early voting
Across the district, there were 22,091 people who voted early, a whopping 39.5 per cent of enrolled voters.
Early voting, formally called pre-polling is available to those who are unable to make it to a polling place on election day, because they may be out of state or working.
At the Dubbo electoral office, there were 12,744 early votes. Early voting was also popular in Mudgee where 6376 people voted before election day.
Fines
As of election day on March 23 there were 55,962 enrolled voters in the Dubbo district. In total, there were 50,355 ballots completed, either on the day, informally - including those left blank - or via iVote and postal votes.
That leaves 5607 people at risk of getting fined.
Any adult who didn't vote in the NSW election will be hit with a $55 fine.
According to the NSW Electoral Commission, those who were eligible to vote but didn't will be sent a Failure to Vote notice in the mail, asking why.