Starting from Scone, Mr Joyce hit pre-polling booths in communities all the way up to the Queensland border.

“I’m getting to all those smaller towns – Legume, Jamieson, Tenterfield, Glen Innes, Inverell, Barraba, Manilla, Nundle, Gostwyck, Uralla,” Mr Joyce said.

“I don’t get to see them on polling day and I know how they think, I’ve been there myself. It’s about letting them know they matter.

“It’s my political ethos. I came into this game believing I’ve got to look after the people on the edges – otherwise I’d join the Liberal Party.

“That’s the point of the National Party. If you look after people on the edges, that shows the good faith in trying to look after everybody.”

Mr Joyce always makes a point of voting in Woolbrook, which wasn’t going to have a polling booth this year.

Mr Joyce made a personal representation to the Australian Electoral Commission, requesting they leave the booth open.

“That’s my home, that’s where I grew up, it’s part of who I am,” he said.

Mr Windsor has also been criss-crossing the electorate, thanking his pre-poll volunteers.

“Armidale, Glen Innes, Inverell – there’s all good groups of people there,” Mr Windsor said.

“It’s an extraordinarily humbling process when people volunteer their time. People will give up a whole day on election day, out in the cold. The same for the people at the pre-polls.

“I can’t believe it and I never have been able to thank  all these people wanting to help. They’re the people you want to win for in the end.”