Ricky Muir says he's staying in politics whether he's returned to the Senate on Saturday or not.
The Motoring Enthusiast Party MP was elected on a tiny primary vote in 2013 and dubbed "the accidental senator", but has made his mark in some key legislative decisions.
"If I don't get into the Senate this election, I'll wait til the next election," Senator Muir told AAP on Monday.
"Whether it be the Senate, the lower house, the state, even local council.
"One way or another I'll find my way back into politics."
Senator Muir said he'd "caught the bug" in just over two years of representing people in Canberra.
"With the government actually using my face as the poster child for electoral reform, I feel that I owe those one-in-four voters in the 2013 election who were looking for a party outside the majors," he said.
Despite coming from a timber working background, Senator Muir said he was attracting support from Green voters who respected his stands on renewable energy and asylum seekers.
"(I'm) not actually grabbing hold of the hard-Right line and going with the emotion, because I don't do politics on emotion," he said.
Senator Muir says he's also attracting support from conservative voters who like his methodical examination of issues.
He'll be down in Gippsland on election night with his supporters.
"Unlike 2013 I will be watching the election," he said.
Senator Muir said the controversial CFA deal with the United Firefighters' Union had been first raised with him on Anzac Day and he had serious questions to ask about how volunteers would be affected.
"Volunteers and emergency services are absolutely the backbone of this country," he said.
Senator Muir will address the Rural Press Club in Melbourne on Tuesday.
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