Ms Armstrong, Ararat Rural City Council’s deputy mayor, will contest the Upper House seat for Western Victoria as a member of the Nationals Party. 

Although results could take a couple of weeks to be declared, she said she would resign immediately from her council role if she found success. 

In that instance, a countback of candidates from the 2016 council election would determine who would take her place.

Ms Armstrong said she wanted to take on a broader area of influence, which was why she was running for a seat in the Senate and not in the Lower House. 

“The concerns I have are more broad than being solely focused on a local set of issues,” she said.

“(They are) based on a set of concerns that we're seeing across a huge part of our state.

“We’re experiencing the downside of having a Labor government that has an interest that stops at the tram tracks. In regional Victoria we feel really keenly that we’re a forgotten section of the population.”

Some of those concerns consisted of rates and roads – issues Ms Armstrong said her local government experience gave her a deep insight into.

“The shortfalls in local government can be largely attributed to the management of the local government space by the state government,” she said.

“One of the most exciting opportunities we have is to make rates fair across all sectors of the community. We’ve promised an independent inquiry to review the broken rating system across the whole state, which will address the incredible variance of rating strategies between councils.”

Ms Armstrong believed she had a good chance of being elected on Saturday.

“I really have a very good chance of being elected. The only question mark is around the preference whisperer deals which have been struck,” she said.

“It's really about encouraging people to exercise their democratic right to vote, which is an absolute privilege, and to really put consideration into voting below the line.”

Ms Armstrong is among 45 candidates representing 19 parties for the seat of Western Victoria. Five candidates will be elected to the Upper House.