Hume is one of three seats falling below a quota set by the Australian Electoral Commission. It is the first step in the process of redistributing Federal boundaries.

"I have calculated the enrolment quota for Queensland as 88,343 and the enrolment quota for NSW as 94,353," electoral commissioner Ed Killesteyn said.

"It was determined that NSW would lose a seat, reducing their entitlement to 48 in the House of Representatives at the next federal election."

Hume is one of the electorates falling below the quota, with the number of voters totalling 91,838.

But Mr Schultz said it was still too early to speculate whether his seat would be abolished.

"Once the preliminary seats are put forward, there's always an appeals process," he said.

Mr Schultz, whose seat has survived six redistributions, said he was concerned about the possible loss of another rural seat.

"We lost one at the last redistribution and that has had an enormous impact of these rural seats," he said.

But he declined to say whether he would re-stand for parliament if Hume was retained.

"My parliamentary colleagues would like too see me continue in my role, so too would the party," he said.

"I'm not thinking about that. It's too premature. One of the possibilities is that the seat of Hume could be abolished, we can't rule that out."

Mr Schultz said there was "not much" he could do if his seat was abolished. Instead his concerns lay with his employees.

"It's not so much what happens to the member, it's what happens to their staff," he said.

"I have four people working for me. That's the human side of it. People only think of the politics, but that's the human side of it."

The redistributions were triggered following the February 17 determination of the number of House of Representatives members that each state and territory would be entitled to at the next election.