Labor is two seats away from forming a majority government.
With the Liberals winning the South Australian seat in Sturt, that means five seats are in doubt.
This is how things are at the national level right now.
These are the seats still in doubt
Brisbane, Queensland
With 69.1 percent of the vote counted, Greens candidate Stephen Bates leads by 6,433 votes.
Bates has been “cautiously optimistic” that he will win the seat, and has described the city as always a “microcosm of progressivism”.
Trevor Evans of the National Liberal Party is the current member of Brisbane.
The only thing we can say is that he didn’t win the endorsement, says ABC’s Casey Briggs.
“What is not clear is who will win: it is a race between Green candidate Stephen Bates, who is currently in second place, and Labor candidate Madonna Jarrett, who is in third place. But they are half a percent behind. from each other. in the first preferences, “Briggs said.
“Whoever is in second place after distributing the preferences of all other candidates will win the seat.”
Deakin, Victoria
The headquarters of the outgoing Liberal assistant treasurer, Michael Sukkar, is still nearby.
Sukkar is ahead of Matt Gregg of the Labor Party by 890 votes.
Gilmore, New South Wales
It is a narrow margin at Gilmore’s federal headquarters on the south coast of NSW, with only 114 votes separating Labor incumbent Fiona Phillips and Liberal rival former NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance.
More postal votes are also expected by June 3rd.
Lyons, Tasmania
The Liberals have risen 4.8 percent toward them, with Susie Bower leading the first-preference votes.
However, this has been described by ABC statistician Casey Briggs as a “close battle”, with Labor leader Brian Mitchell leading by just 535 votes.
Macnamara, Victoria
Labor leader Josh Burns leads by 17,885 votes.
The ABC is projecting a final count of Green versus Labor preferences, but at this stage it is unclear what order the top three first-choice candidates will finish, says ABC chief election analyst Anthony Green.
“The estimates given to me are that the exclusion of the five lowest-voting candidates produces preferential flows of 18 per cent for Labor, 34 per cent for Greens and 48 per cent for Liberals,” he said. Green.
“Applying them puts the three final candidates at 1,000 votes between them.”
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When will the counting end?
Australian Electoral Commission staff have been sorting and counting votes since the polls closed on 21 May.
In addition to face-to-face voting, there have also been a large number of postal votes to resolve, many of which take up to two weeks to arrive before being counted.
That’s why these mail-in votes could be vital in determining the outcome in some extremely close but narrow seats.
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