Ballot paper positions have been drawn across Australia for this year's federal election.

As the Australian Electoral Commission officially declared nominations at public events on Friday, 10 candidates contesting the seat of Parkes were revealed.

And so too the order in which their names will appear on the ballot.

These events involve a blindfold, numbered balls and what is effectively a double randomised 'bingo' system to keep the process fair.

The Parkes electorate candidates for 2025 in ballot paper order are:

Mark Carter (Pauline Hanson's One Nation)

Stephen Pope (Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party)

Trish Frail (The Greens)

Petrus Van Der Steen (Trumpet of Patriots)

Bob Wilson (Indigenous - Aboriginal Party of Australia)

Nathan Fell (labor)

Jamie Chaffey (The Nationals)

Maurice Davey (Family First)

Stuart Howe (Independent)

Sally Edwards (Libertarian)

The retiring national MP is Mark Coulton who has represented this seat since 2007.

Parkes was contested at the first federal election in 1901 and existed for 68 years as a Sydney electorate until being abolished at the 1969 election.

The name was revived on the expansion of the House of Representatives in 1984, but as a rural seat in western NSW.

Parkes has been a safe National seat since.

The Parkes electorate includes 50.1 per cent of the state making it the largest electorate in NSW and the seventh largest in the country.

Major centres in Parkes include Forbes, Parkes, Condobolin, Moree, Walgett, Narrabri, Coonabarabran, Coonamble, Gilgandra, Dubbo, Cobar, Broken Hill, Bourke and Brewarrina.

Since Gwydir Shire moved to the New England electorate from Parkes and the addition of Forbes, Parkes and Bland Shires to the Parkes electorate last year the national margin increases from 17.8 per cent to 18.2 per cent.

The federal election will be held on Saturday, 3 May.