More than a dozen seats still too close to call

Perth Now

07-05-2025

SEAT COUNT IN 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION
SEAT NUMBERS
* Labor - 87 seats (+9 from 2022 election total)
* Coalition - 40 seats (-17)
* Greens - 0 seats (-4)
* Independents/Minor parties - 10 seats (-1)
* Undecided - 13 seats
* Vote count as of Wednesday 10am AEST with 79.6 per cent of the national tally counted.
*Labor looks set to gain three seats in the Senate and the Liberals go backwards as five seats remain in doubt with 53.3 per cent of the upper house ballots counted.
WHERE THE COUNT IS UP TO
* Labor sits on 54.62 per cent of the two-party national count with 5,875,519 votes, an increase of 2.49 per cent, according to the Australian Electoral Commission.
*The Liberals have 45.38 per cent of the national vote with 4,881,024 ballots.
* A mandatory second count of all votes began Tuesday.
SEATS STILL IN DOUBT
* Kooyong (Vic) - Teal independent MP Monique Ryan leads Liberal Amelia Hamer by 1002 votes with almost 80 per cent of the vote counted.
* Bradfield (NSW) - Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian has edged ahead of independent challenger Nicolette Boele by 178 votes, with just over 86 per cent of the vote counted.
* Bullwinkel (WA) - Labor's Trish Cook leads Liberal Matt Moran by just 50 votes with 80 per cent counted as the country's newest seat rests on a knife's edge.
* Melbourne (Vic) - Greens leader Adam Bandt has fallen behind Labor candidate Sarah Witty in the count by 4043 votes with just over two-thirds of ballots counted.
* Fremantle (WA) - Labor could lose one of its safest seats with MP Josh Wilson edging of challenger Kate Hulett by 255 votes after a 16.7 per cent swing to the independent.
* Bean (ACT) - Labor MP David Smith is also in jeopardy from an independent in his formerly safe seat, behind Jessie Price by almost 1000 votes with 86 per cent of the vote counted.
* Bendigo (Vic) - Labor MP Lisa Chesters is 1183 votes ahead of Nationals candidate Andrew Lethlean with just over 87 per cent counted after a more than 10 per cent swing to the Nationals in the formerly safe seat.
* Labor also leads in Menzies (Vic) and Calwell (Vic) while the Liberals are ahead in Flinders (Vic), Longman (Qld) and Monash (Vic).
* The Greens are ahead of the Liberals by 11,800 votes in Ryan (Qld).