As the state election votes were tallied on Saturday night it appeared Mr Donato could be part of a four-member SFF voting bloc holding the balance of power in the lower house.

But a NSW Nationals Party victory in Dubbo, where Dugald Saunders defeated independent Matthew Dickerson by 2.6 per cent despite a 17 per cent swing away from the Nationals, combined with a Liberal win in East Hills, gave Premier Gladys Berejiklian's Coalition government a two-seat majority.

Despite no longer enjoying the balance of power, Mr Donato said having fellow SFF members for Murray Helen Dalton and Barwon Roy Butler in the parliamentary chamber would provide more opportunities to lobby on behalf regional communities.

He said the coalition would be brave to withhold funding from electorates which had swung so drastically against them: the electorate-wide two-party preferred swing towards Mr Donato was 37.5 per cent.

"[The coalition] would be cautious considering they only have a two-seat majority," Mr Donato said, adding it meant potential byelections in the future could be fraught with danger for the government.

He also said he expected the election results would send a strong message to Macquarie Street that regional areas couldn't be ignored.

"Certainly, it sends a message that regional NSW has been screaming out for a conservative alternative. For too long the Nationals have held these seats and with time comes complacency and we've seen that in western NSW," Mr Donato said.

"They're not going to take it any more."

In the Legislative Council Mr Donato's former staffer Brett Cooke was still no closer to finding if he would win a second SFF upper house as counting continued.

SFF's first upper house seat will go to Mark Banasiak.