Re-elected Liberal Nicole Lawder said she hopes a "fulsome and wide-ranging" review is conducted of the opposition's election campaign, but maintains her party did almost everything possible to win government.
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The final days of counting saw Ms Lawder emerge from a precarious position early last week, when she was locked in a close battle for the last seat in Brindabella.
She beat her nearest rival, Labor's Angie Drake, by roughly 550 votes in Saturday's final result, ensuring the Liberals took three of the five seats in the southern electorate.
Ms Lawder is a moderate Liberal, and says she is as "far on the left" as possible in the party.
She will be joined in the Legislative Assembly by fellow Brindabella Liberals Mark Parton, a former radio host, and re-elected Shadow Industrial Relations Minister Andrew Wall.
Ms Lawder said the week had been "pretty stressful", saying she tried to avoid monitoring the count as much as possible.
"I've been trying to do other things, mostly involving relaxing. I haven't been spending a lot of time watching the results," she said.
"I've been deliberately avoiding it. In theory the votes are already cast, so looking at it and agonising over it won't help."
Ms Lawder said she felt the Liberals' campaign was more organised than 2012, and that "we did as much right as we possibly could".
But she said the Liberals appeared to lack the targeted messaging of Labor's campaign. She cited union text messages to voters immediately before the election as an example.
"One of the first things [to do] will be to review the campaign, and hopefully that will be a really fulsome and wide-ranging review," she said.
Ms Lawder said the criticism of the party as too conservative was strangely one-sided.
"We always say in the Liberal party that we're a broad church, and we seem to get accused of conservatism a lot more than Labor, who have their right and left factions," she said.
"But for all intents and purposes it's just the left and the right, just as Labor has."
Ms Lawder said she was proud to be part of a record proportion of female politicians.
"I'm really proud to see what looks like the first Australian parliament with a majority of women elected," she said.
"That's a fantastic result for us."
