One week after last Saturday’s federal election and Labor are still in a seat to form a majority government, where the party can govern in its own right.
The Labor Party currently has 75 federal seats.
Four seats are in doubt.
This is how things look at the moment.
The seats are still in doubt
Macnamara, Victoria
With 76.2% of the vote counted, Labor leader Josh Burns leads by 18,525 votes.
ABC Chief Election Analyst Antony Green explains that the ballot figures, based on an AEC preference vote for the five least-voted candidates, are producing 18 percent preference flows for to Labor, 34 per cent to the Greens and 48 per cent to the Greens. The Liberals.
“Applying them puts the three final candidates less than 1,000 votes apart,” he said.
“If the Greens or the Liberals are third, Labor wins. If the Labor candidate is third, the Greens win.
“For that reason, Macnamara is left in doubt.”
This electorate includes the suburbs of Port Melbourne, South Melbourne, Middle Park, South Yarra, St Kilda, Balaclava, Elwood and parts of Elsternwick and Caulfield.
Brisbane, Queensland
Green says the Brisbane count will first exclude the four candidates with the fewest votes.
“This will determine an order for the three final candidates: LNP, Labor and Greens,” he said.
“The preference count shown here uses a preference estimate for the first four exclusions provided to me by the scrutineers. That’s 35.1% for the Greens, 15.6% for Labor and 49. 3% for LNP “.
Green says this currently puts the Greens ahead of Labor during the distribution of preferences. This could lead to the Greens defeating the LNP.
However, he added, the result “may win Labor back if an additional count changes the balance of early Labor versus green preferences or alters the order of exclusion during the distribution of preferences”.
With 73.9 percent of the vote counted, Greens candidate Stephen Bates leads by 4,021 votes.
This electorate includes the suburbs of New Farm, Newstead, Bowen Hills, Windsor, Kelvin Grove, Newmarket, Enoggera, Wilston, Albion, Clayfield, Ascot, Hamilton, Lutwyche, Wooloowin, and parts of Stafford.
Deakin, Victoria
With 86.4 percent of the vote counted, the seat of outgoing Liberal Deputy Treasurer Michael Sukkar is still close.
Sukkar is currently ahead of Matt Gregg of the Labor Party by 655 votes.
Deakin includes all or parts of the suburbs of Blackburn, Forest Hill, Mitcham, Vermont, Ringwood, Heathmont, Croydon, and Bayswater North.
Gilmore, New South Wales
Gilmore’s federal seat has only 247 votes separating Liberal rival, former NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance and incumbent Fiona Phillips.
Gilmore is a mixed electorate, covering 6,342 square miles on the south coast of NSW.
There has been a narrow margin in this race and more votes are expected to arrive by mail by June 3rd.
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When will the counting end?
In addition to the in-person votes, including previous polls, there have also been a large number of postal votes to resolve, and many of them take up to two weeks to arrive before they can be counted.
These postal votes could be vital in determining the result in seats where the count is near.
Australian Electoral Commission staff have been sorting and counting votes since the polls closed on Saturday 21 May.
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