PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MAY 03: A member of the public casts their ballot paper on May 03, 2025 in Perth, Australia. Australians headed to the polls on Saturday for the 2025 federal election, where all 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of 76 Senate seats are up for grabs. This election is especially consequential due to a tightly contested race, with cost-of-living pressures, affordable housing, and energy policy dominating the campaign. Though most polls indicate a narrow Labor victor
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A number of key seats across the country are still too close to call three days after Australians hit the polls.

The seat of Melbourne, held by Greens leader Adam Bandt, is one of several that has a razor-thin margin as candidates remain in neck-and-neck battles to the finish line.

At 5pm (AEST) on Tuesday, 12 seats remain in doubt, with counting set to continue well into next week.

These are the electorates that remain too close to call.

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MAY 03: A member of the public casts their ballot paper on May 03, 2025 in Perth, Australia. Australians headed to the polls on Saturday for the 2025 federal election, where all 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of 76 Senate seats are up for grabs. This election is especially consequential due to a tightly contested race, with cost-of-living pressures, affordable housing, and energy policy dominating the campaign. Though most polls indicate a narrow Labor victor
Counting could continue well into next week for the 2025 federal election, with several key seats still undecided. (Getty)

In the ACT, incumbent Labor MP David Smith is slightly ahead in the vote count by just over 700 votes, with independent candidate Jessie Price closely following.

Just over 85 per cent of the votes have been counted.

The seat of Bendigo was once safe for Labor, but the Nationals have mounted a challenge in the Victorian electorate.

Incumbent Labor MP Lisa Chesters is currently leading Nationals candidate Andrew Lethlean by 152 votes.

One of the country’s tightest races is unfolding in Sydney’s seat of Bradfield, where only 51 votes separate Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian and independent candidate Nicolette Boele.

Regardless of the outcome, a change is inevitable for the electorate since outgoing Bradfield MP Paul Fletcher has retired from parliament.

Federal seat of Bradfield. Killara High School polling booth with Independent candidate Nicolette Boele  3rd May 2025 Photo: Steven Siewert
Independent candidate for Bradfield Nicolette Boele. (Steven Siewert)

There is a simlarly tight race in the newly created seat of Bullwinkel in Western Australia between Labor MP Trish Cook and Liberal candidate Matt Moran.

At the time of reporting, Moran was ahead by just 48 votes.

While Labor’s Basem Abdo appears likely to retain his seat, the complexity of the race for Calwell has delayed counting.

Five candidates finished with a primary vote of between 7 and 31 per cent, and the AEC is yet to publish a two-party preference count.

A complex three-way race is playing out in Flinders, where Liberal incumbent Zoe McKenzie is fighting to hold onto her seat. A preference count is yet to be released by the AEC.

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Fremantle independent candidate Kate Hulett is hoping to unseat Labor MP Josh Wilson in another dramatically close race in Western Australia.

Wilson is only ahead by about 300 votes, a surprise result so far for the traditionally safe Labor seat.

The inner-east Melbourne seat of Kooyong is on a knife’s edge.

Incumbent independent MP Monique Ryan has inched ahead by around 1000 votes against Liberal challenger Amelia Hamer.

A win by Hamer would give the Coalition a small but much-needed presence in Melbourne.

Monique Ryan is seen at the Malvern Headquaters on Sunday 4 May 2025. (The Age)

Labor candidate Rhiannyn Douglas is challenging Liberal MP Terry Young in Longman and there’s only a smattering of votes in it.

The current count has Young ahead by a little over 400 votes, with 79.5 per cent counted.

Greens leader Adam Bandt is waiting with bated breath for the result in Melbourne.

His seat remains in doubt with 67 per cent of votes counted, however there’s already been a huge swing against Bandt.

Labor candidate Sarah Witty is leading the two-party preferred count by a little under 1100 votes.

A Greens loss in Melbourne would mark the second leader losing a seat at the 2025 federal election after Peter Dutton was voted out from Dickson.

Adam Bandt, Leader of the Australian Greens and  Steph Hodgins-May, Greens Senator for Victoria updating the media on the likelihood that they will hold the balance of power in the Senate following Saturdays Federal Election.  They were in the Treasury Gardens, Melbourne. The Age. Picture:  Penny Stephens. Monday 5th May 2025
Adam Bandt’s seat remains in doubt with 67 per cent of votes counted. (PENNY STEPHENS)

Sitting Liberal MP Keith Wolahan has fallen behind by more than 1300 votes in the Melbourne seat of Menzies after an Australian Electoral Commission error triggered a recount.

Labor’s Gabriel Ng is slightly ahead in the count at the time of reporting.

According to the Australian Financial Review, AEC staff counted 8817 first preference ballots for Wolahan at a booth in Doncaster East on Saturday but it whittled down to 6966 during a recount.

Monash – which was renamed from McMillan in 2019 – in rural Victoria Melbourne, meanwhile, is an enormously complex race, with four candidates finishing with more than a 10 per cent primary vote and no official preference count from the AEC available yet.

This seat has been held by the Liberal Party since 2004.

Russell Broadbent, who has represented this seat since 2004, became an independent in November 2023 after losing pre-selection for this election.

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