Along that journey there has been incredible highs and some devastating lows, but throughout it's hard to summarise the absolute privilege it's been to serve others before self.

Giving back professionally or through community and charity endeavours has enriched my life and in simple terms I am grateful.

Today marks the end of my public service career and I just want to thank enormously the wonderful family, friends, staff, team mates, mentors & supporters who have shared and helped shape that career.

2019 is an opportunity for me to transition into a new career and a new life yet to be determined. A wonderful chance with some rest to re-invent myself and a cherished chance to reconnect with my family and friends who will be at the centre and at the heart of all I do in the future.

As part of the next phase a period of social media detox is a priority, so no offence to anyone if I'm not digitally in reach but if you know me you know where and how to find me as I do to find you the old fashioned way.

So again many thanks to everyone who has been by my side over the last 30 years I again am so very grateful. I will in time inevitably find a way in a better balanced manner to make a contribution to our society it's just a part of my DNA that I can't deny but for now it's simply. Goodbye to what's been and Hello to a new future.

Both Nationals candidate Dugald Saunders and Independent Mathew Dickerson kept busy on Sunday as they waited for the results to keep trickling in.

But by Sunday afternoon, Dubbo was one of three districts that still had no result.

Mr Saunders said he "wasn't too stressed" about the counting and was remaining hopeful of a result in his favour.

He said there was no point walking around in circles worrying about what was to come.

Instead, Mr Saunders said he was carrying on with normal life.

As for Mr Dickerson, he said it was "humbling" to see more than 10,000 people choose him as their first preference for the new Member for Dubbo, regardless of the final results.

His goal had been to receive 30 per cent of the primary vote and on Sunday afternoon he was at 29.63 per cent.

Mr Dickerson said he stayed busy on Sunday, taking down election signage, thanking his volunteers and answering lots of enquiries from people asking about the results.

At 4pm on Sunday, Mr Saunders had the largest percentage of first preference votes.

With 34,314 formal votes counted the Nationals candidate had 13,006, or 37.9 per cent. Close behind was Mr Dickerson with 10,168 first preference votes.

In the two candidate preferred count, Mr Saunders had 50.53 per cent of the votes, while Mathew Dickerson was at 49.47 per cent. There were only 177 votes splitting the two on Sunday afternoon.

As first preference counting continued, Country Labor candidate Stephen Lawrence had 4910 votes, or 14.31 per cent, while Shooters, Fishers and Farmers' candidate Lara Quealy was sitting on 4488 or 13.08 per cent.

The Greens' Rod Pryor had 1065 first preference votes, equal to 3.1 per cent, while Australian Conservatives candidate April Salter had 476 or 1.39 per cent and Flux Party's Joanne Cotterill had 201 votes or 0.59 per cent.

Local election analyst Peter Bartley said he didn't expect there to be a result for the Dubbo seat until Tuesday afternoon or early Wednesday.