Minority govt a 'worst nightmare': Drum

Minority government is "Australia's worst nightmare", new Nationals MP and former Fremantle AFL coach Damian Drum says.

He is set to claim the seat of Murray after long-serving Liberal Sharman Stone retired, and Mr Drum said voters told him they didn't want minority government.

"That'd be, I think, Australia's worst nightmare," Mr Drum told AAP on Sunday.

"There hasn't been anybody in the campaign - all the thousands and thousands of people I've met - asking for the situation we might be looking at.

"That's certainly been the feeling in this electorate, that people were very keen for whoever wins to get on and govern."

Mr Drum said he had run a positive campaign, helped by a steady parade of National party ministers coming through Murray, which includes the towns of Shepparton, Echuca and Yarrawonga.

"The people saw that we were deadly serious about making sure that voters aren't taken for granted," Mr Drum said.

The former AFL coach has been in politics since 2002, when he became a member of Victoria's upper house.

He was sports and veterans affairs minister from March 2014 to December 2014.