Mr May contested the seat for the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and said he was satisfied with his results after just a few months of building a local profile.

"For the people who did vote for me, I still want to be their representative for the next four years," he said.

"A lot can happen in four years but at this stage I'm keen to run again."

Mr May said he had offered himself as a candidate who was "standing up for people who needed to be stood up for".

He hoped the Shooters would run a candidate against the Nationals' incumbent Andrew Gee in the federal seat of Calare, but said it would not be him.

"I'm not a career politician and with the federal election coming just two months after a state election, I can't do it," he said. "I need to get back to some normalcy."

Meanwhile, Mr Gee said the state election had been good for incumbents and showed that hard-working local members would be rewarded.

"I had people on the booths at Orange asking people as they came out from the vote what was on their minds and who they were voting for and it was quite clear they were drawing a very clear distinction between the candidate and the party. They were voting for the candidate as a person and not necessarily for the party," he said.

"I think ... people are less rusted on than they used to be."

Mr Gee was not too concerned by the prospect of the SFF fielding a candidate to run against him.

"I think it remains to be seen whether the appeal of the Shooters translates into votes federally," he said.

"If you look at the seat of Bathurst, it didn't happen. If you look at Cootamundra, it didn't happen and I think the reason is that the candidates develop personal followings because of their work in the electorate."