Member for Gilmore Fiona Phillips' chances of retaining the seat at the May 3 election have been given a boost after she got top spot in the ballot draw on Friday.

A measly 373 votes separated Phillips and Liberal challenger Andrew Constance at the 2022 election and they will go head to head again at next month's poll.

Community Independent candidate Kate Dezarnaulds, Debbie Killian representing The Greens and Moruya businessman Graham Brown (Family First) are also in the running for Gilmore.

Melissa Wise is standing for the Trumpet of Patriots, John Hawke has thrown his hat into the ring for One Nation and Adrian Carle rounds out the candidates repesenting the Legalise Cannabis Party.

Phillips, who won by just 0.2 per cent of the vote last time around, was all smiles on Friday after being chosen as the lucky recipient for top spot on the ballot.

"I am 100 per cent focused on talking with people in our community every day between now and the election," she said.

"For the last three years, I have been working hard to deliver cost of living relief, improve our local health services such as the new headspace at Kiama and cheaper medicines, and improve our local roads and community infrastructure.

"Should our community put their trust in me again on May 3, they can be assured that I will continue putting them first."

The ballot order is:

Fiona Phillips (Labor)

Kate Dezarnaulds (Community Independent)

Melissa Wise (Trumpet of Patriots)

Debbie Killian (The Greens)

Graham Brown (Family First)

Andrew Constance (Liberal)

John Hawke (One Nation)

Adrian Carle (Legalise Cannabis Party)

The Australian Electoral Commission has announced that a record 98.2% of eligible Australians are enrolled to vote in the upcoming federal election. There are 18,098,797 people enrolled for the election.

The roll has increased by 870,000 people since the 2022 federal election, a rise of 5.0%.

In the 11 days following the announcement of the election, the AEC added approximately 85,000 new voters to the roll, and helped more than 419,000 other voters to update their enrolment details.

This activity also brings Australia’s youth enrolment rate to 92.0%.