Ms Copping has been campaigning for a spot on a council for 20 years and believes this might be her time.

In the last election in 2012 she polled 372 votes, more than six eventual councillors received in the first round of voting.

However, they all benefited from flow-on preferences from people voting above the line for their ticket or gained preferences from other candidates to eventually pass Ms Copping and gain election.

She said she had been unofficially told she had finished 14^th in the last poll.

But, despite some councillors benefiting from being on a ticket Ms Copping is refusing to budge.

“Twenty years ago I went on a ticket and I didn’t know how the preferences would go,” she said.

“I wasn’t happy, I didn’t know how it worked.

“When people vote above the line it [the vote] is lucky to flow down to the number two candidate.”

She said it was a waste of money to be on a ticket unless you were up the top.

“I’ll get there on my own merit,” she said.

“On a ticket you have to follow their rules.

“My name is good in this town.

“On your own you are a free spirit.”

Ms Copping said she did not want to run her own ticket as that was unfair to the other candidates who were unlikely to get elected.

“You have to be truthful to the other five candidates, I can’t use people.”

She said she would save about $400 by not handing out how-to-vote cards – and instead would be helped by “human billboards.”

“I’ve got some tradies who are going to wear my T-shirts to work on Wednesday.

“I feel more confident than ever. Maybe it’s my time,” she said.