A Victorian candidate for the Palmer United Party, who failed to win enough votes to claim a seat, has applied to overturn the state’s election result on a technicality.

Failed PUP candidate for the upper house Maria Rigoni asked the Victorian Supreme Court on Monday to completely invalidate the election result, which would return the entire state to the polls.

Ms Rigoni’s petition claimed that the state’s electoral laws were breached by the record number of pre-poll votes cast during the November election won by Labor.

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Maria Rigoni wants to force Victorians back to the polls.

The 1.1 million Victorian voters who attended early polling booths breached election laws, Ms Rigoni has claimed, because many of these people could have voted on the set day.

Ms Rigoni said many early voters were not asked to sign a pre-poll declaration, despite pre-polling only being available for those with special circumstances.

“Any reasonable person would question whether over 30 per cent of the population can’t attend one of 1780 polling centres on election day,” Ms Rigoni told Fairfax Media.

The court document lodged by Ms Rigno said that allowing these early votes distorted “every candidate’s right to influence the decision-making process of electors with the election time frame”.

The state’s electoral commission has denied that it breached the law.

Ms Rigoni received only 1.18 per cent of the primary vote in the Norther Metropolitan Region.

PUP leader Clive Palmer has also stolen headlines in recent days, pledging to repeal every law enacted by the LNP government in Queensland if his party wins government in its own right — an almost impossible eventuality — in the state’s election on January 31.

John Bjelke-Petersen, the son of a former Queensland premier, has been appointed to lead the Queensland wing of Palmer United.

The votes of Mr Palmer’s senators in the federal upper house were crucial to instigating the current inquiry into government corruption in Queensland.

—with AAP.