Latest election count as seats go down to the wire
While Labor scored an emphatic majority over the coalition in Saturday’s federal election, several seats remain too close to call.
As of Monday morning, 16 seats are still undecided, with 77 per cent of the national tally counted so far.
Labor holds 85 seats in the House of Representatives, the Liberal-National Coalition holds 39 and independents or minor parties hold 10 seats.
In South Australia, only two of ten seats are held by the Liberal party, these being Barker and Grey.
Liberal member Tom Venning won Grey, succeeding retired Rowan Ramsey who served as the electorate’s Liberal member since 2007 while Barker was retained by Liberal MP Tony Pasin.
Labor’s Claire Clutterham turned SA’s most marginal seat of Sturt red, beating Liberal member James Stevens and leaving the Liberal party with no seats in metro Adelaide.
Louise Miller-Frost held onto her seat of Boothby that she won off the Liberals in 2022.
Seven of SA’s 10 seats are held by Labor, two by Liberal and one by an independent, this being Rebekah Sharkie’s seat of Mayo.
Of the six senate seats up for grabs in SA, Labor’s Marielle Smith and Karen Grogan were re-elected, as was Liberal Senator Alex Antic and Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.
As the count continues, it’s likely Liberal Senator Anne Ruston will be re-elected and Labor will gain a senate seat with 21-year-old candidate Charlotte Walker.
South Australian Members
Adelaide: Labor MP Steve Georganas
Barker: Liberal MP Tony Pasin
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Boothby: Labor MP Louise Miller-Frost
Grey: Liberal MP Tom Venning
Hindmarsh: Labor MP Mark Butler
Kingston: Labor MP Amanda Rishworth
Makin: Labor MP Tony Zappia
Mayo: Centre Alliance MP Rebekah Sharkie
Spence: Labor MP Matt Burnell
Sturt: Labor MP Claire Clutterham
Seats too close to call
Melbourne (VIC)
Greens leader Adam Bandt is in danger of losing his seat to Labor challenger Sarah Witty, who is leading by almost 3000 votes.
A high number of postal votes coming in are flowing to Labor over the Greens.
Kooyong (VIC)
Independent MP Monique Ryan is facing a challenge from Liberal Amelia Hamer, with teal leading 51 per cent to 49 per cent, with three-quarters of the vote counted.
Ryan declared victory when addressing supporters on Saturday night, but on Monday said she no longer felt safe in the contest.
“Things were looking good on the night, in (election analyst) Antony Green we trusted,” Ryan told ABC Radio Melbourne on Monday morning.
“But postal votes have been very much pro the conservative side so I think at this point Kooyong is very much in the air. It’s possible [I could lose].”
Goldstein (VIC)
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A razor-thin margin of 95 votes separates leading independent MP Zoe Daniel and Liberal challenger Tim Wilson, with the result to come down to preferences.
Daniel, a former journalist, said on Sunday it would take days for the results to be confirmed.
If Wilson in Goldstein or Hamer in Kooyong are able to turn the Teal-held seats, they’re likely to be the liberal’s only federal representatives in Melbourne.
Wills (VIC)
Labor MP Peter Khalil is facing a challenge from Greens candidate Samantha Ratnam, with the incumbent ahead 51.6 per cent to 48.4 per cent.
Ratnam was the leader of the Victorian Greens between 2017 and 2024, serving in the Victorian Legislative Council.
Bradfield (NSW)
Just 905 votes separate independent challenger Nicolette Boele and the Liberals’ Gisele Kapterian in the former safe seat for the Coalition.
Boele is backed by Climate 200, while Kapterian replaced retiring Liberal member Paul Fletcher.
Bullwinkel (WA)
Barely anything splits Labor and the Liberals in the newest WA seat, with Labor’s Trish Cook leading by just 85 votes over Liberal Matt Moran.
Preferences from the Nationals, who are in third place, are set to decide the seat’s outcome.
Fremantle (WA)
A close battle is underway in one of Labor’s safest seats, with Labor MP Josh Wilson under threat from independent challenger Kate Hulett.
Hullet is ahead by just 196 votes.
Longman (QLD)
Labor’s Rhiannyn Douglas is ahead 50.2 per cent to Coalition MP Terry Young’s 49.8 per cent, with 318 votes separating the pair.
Ryan (QLD)
A three-way contest has emerged in the Brisbane-based seat between Greens MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown, the Coalition’s Maggie Forrest and Labor’s Rebecca Hack.
The Greens are narrowly ahead, but the result will come down to preference flows of the party that finishes third.
Bean (ACT)
The Labor stronghold held by MP David Smith is also being challenged by independent Jessie Price.
Smith is leading 52.5 per cent to 47.5 per cent, but he previously held the seat by more than 12 per cent.
