Although he will not officially become the member for Wannon until the declaration of the polls late this week or early next week his diary is filling quickly with requests including a visit to Hamilton today for a Mary MacKillop pilgrimage ceremony.

"Saturday night was overwhelming, by Sunday I was exhausted and by today I could start to feel the sense of a job well done and take in what we achieved," the 42-year-old said.

"The phone calls started early from people around the electorate wanting to meet me."

He plans to retain the electorate offices in Warrnambool and Hamilton, but is likely to have to travel further north than his predecessors after an electorate boundary redistribution later this year stretches it to Horsham.

It now covers 32,000 square kilometres from the South Australian border to Lake Corangamite and extends north to Stawell and Beaufort.

Mr Tehan estimated he travelled 100,000 kilometres around the electorate in the 12-months between his pre-selection and the poll.

"The most reassuring thing leading into an election is knowing you have put the work in," he said.

He said his first priorities in office would be to get Medicare funding for an MRI licence in Warrnambool, better independent youth allowances and reinstatement of the Australian Technical College in Warrnambool.

Updated voting figures posted by the Australian Electoral Commission yesterday slightly increased Mr Tehan's lead giving him 57.47 per cent of the vote on a two-

part preferred basis and the ALP's Judith McNamara with 42.53 per cent.

Five independents, the Greens and Family First who had tried to make it a marginal seat barely dented the Liberal dominance which slipped only 0.71 per cent on the two-party basis.

Corangamite Liberal candidate Sarah Henderson, who still doesn't know her political future in a knife-edge result, heaped praise on her Wannon counterpart describing him as an "outstanding" candidate.

"I've known Dan for many years. He's incredibly hard working and will be a first-rate member of parliament," she said.

"The people of Wannon will be well served."

Likewise Mr Tehan praised Ms Henderson's efforts in reducing the ALP margin held by Darren Cheeseman.

"To achieve what she did in Victoria where there was a swing to Gillard is extremely well done," he said.