HE bush bashed 40,000km around the country campaigning in places most of us haven't even heard of, but the hard work has definitely paid off for Nationals leader Warren Truss.
Not only will he become deputy prime minister, but his party swept up at least three new extra seats in the lower house of parliament in the federal election.
The Nationals reclaimed the NSW rural electorate of Lyne and neighbouring New England - formerly held by independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor respectively, and staged an upset in nearby Labor-held seat of Page.
Though still too close to call by late Saturday, the Queensland seat of Capricornia is also a potential scalp.
Veteran MP Warren Snowdon's Northern Territory seat of Lingiari is also on the radar.
The party had set its sights on regional Labor electorates held by a margin of seven per cent or less to boost its numbers from 12 House of Representatives seats to a possible 18.
High-profile former Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce will return to Canberra, this time as a lower house MP after winning New England as expected.
He quit the Senate in a bid to change houses, but his gamble paid off when Mr Windsor tearfully announced in June he wouldn't recontest the seat he'd held for 12 years.
Mr Joyce, who was raised a property in southern New England, thanked the community for embracing him after his long absence in Queensland as a senator.
"To come home after so long away, and to be accepted back into the house by the people who had every reason to have a sense of doubt, I just find that incredible," he told ABC TV on Saturday.
But he dismissed suggestions that now he's heading for the lower house he'd make a move for the leadership of the Nationals, describing the prospect as "miles away".
Gastroenterologist David Gillespie took Lyne, the neighbouring electorate vacated by retiring independent Mr Oakeshott, after falling just short against him in 2010.
Cattle farmer and small business owner Kevin Hogan defeated Labor's Janelle Saffin in Page, a seat many thought was an outside chance of victory.
The Nationals also gave ALP heavyweight Joel Fitzgibbon a real scare in Hunter, slashing his 12.5 per cent margin.
Western Australia could toss some more seats the Nats way, but these are far from certain with many more votes to be counted.
The Liberals and the Nationals are battling it out among themselves for O'Connor - the seat held by on again, off again Nationals MP Tony Crook - and the nearby seat of Durack.
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