On the ballot paper will be four men and three women including majority vote holders ALP candidate Jim Arneman and Liberal MP Bob Baldwin, who won with a 1.7 per cent swing in 2007.

The declaration of candidates and ballot draw was announced on Friday at the East Maitland Australian Electoral Commission office.

One Nation candidate Kevin Leayr will appear first on the ballot and could secure any donkey votes slotted before Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) candidate Anna Balfour.

Veronica Lambert for Family First drew third spot followed by regional outreach worker and Greens candidate Jan Davis.

Drawn one after the other, incumbent Liberal Bob Baldwin is in fifth spot above rival Labor candidate Jim Arneman.

A candidate for the Fishing Party in the 2007 election, Paul Hennelly will again stand but has declared he is not running for a party nor as an Independent.

Eighth candidate and last on the list is Independent Josef Wiedenhorn from East Seaham.

This year's roll up is one more than those who ran for Paterson in 2007.

Despite charging ahead with a 5.7 per cent swing that year, Labor's Jim Arneman was defeated by Bob Baldwin who secured 48.2 per cent of votes. It was Mr Baldwin's third successive election to the seat that he grappled over during the nineties with Labor's Bob Horne.

Conversely Mr Arneman hopes it will be third time lucky after narrowly missing out in 2007, polling 48 per cent of votes.

But a Labor-friendly redistribution could put the Liberals into the red after losing the Gloucester Local Government Area to Lyne and absorbing parts of Raymond Terrace and Maitland.

The fifth-most marginal of the Opposition's seats, the redistribution has shrunk Mr Baldwin's margin to around 0.6 per cent.

Analysts have predicted aircraft noise will decide who wins the seat as both sides pledge to diminish Joint Strike Fighter noise affecting 3500 homes around Raymond Terrace.

On Monday Mr Arneman responded to Coalition plans to extend the runway and install a new instrument landing system, announcing Labor would replace noise contours around the Williamtown RAAF Base.

In the Great Lakes, Mr Baldwin has pledged $20m to upgrade The Lakes Way as part of a $71m Coalition promise to improve Paterson roads.