Soon after winning another term as the member for Calare, Andrew Gee said funding for aged care facilities was a priority.
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"I have a lot of local projects I am keen to get off the ground," he said.
"It's issues like greater funding for aged care facilities. It's something I'm very passionate about. There are a number of others."
Mr Gee said solid economic management would enable such projects to occur.
"The budget is now in the black but we want to keep that good economic management going. When you do it you can deliver locally."
Mr Gee celebrated his victory at Orange City Bowling Club on Saturday night and, despite a 3.4 per cent drop in his vote, said he was gratified by the result.
"A lot of people had been predicting that our primary vote would basically collapse, and probably our opponents were hoping that it would, but we were really thrilled by the way our primary vote held up," he said.
The two-party preferred result remains unclear due to an anomaly on the the Australian Electoral Commission website.
Mr Gee was projected to receive 61.6 per cent of the vote against the Shooters Farmers and Fishers candidate Sam Romano's 38.4 per cent - virtually identical to the 2016 result against Labor's Dr Jess Jennings.
But as counting continued through the night it became more likely that Dr Jennings would finish second in the race, with the distribution of preferences to decide the final margin.
Mr Gee said his team's count also concluded that Dr Jennings came second in the race.
"We think they're going to have re-calculate the whole thing," he said.
"We were surprised it got set up in the way that it did with the Shooters rather than Jess Jennings - we always thought that Jess Jennings was probably a better chance."
He paid tribute to Dr Jennings, who had contested his third campaign for the seat, calling him a warrior.
"I respect him for the way he's gone out and fought for his beliefs," he said.
Mr Gee attributed the victory to a positive campaign and three years of hard work.
"It has been a very humbling experience. The humbling support from the electorate has been overwhelming for me." he said.
"The general public doesn't often see the work that we do. We have tried to help as many people as we can."
Mr Gee said he had run a "positive campaign" during the poll.
"We stuck to our game plan," he said.
Mr Gee said voters had been concerned by local and national issues, but had also worried about the "uncosted policies of the opposition" right up to polling day.
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