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Key Points
  • Two seats currently held by teals remain too close to call this election
  • While the Greens’ primary vote was steady, the party has lost support in Metropolitan areas
  • One seat in Victoria yet to be called could go to the Nationals
It might be weeks until some of the closest seats in the 2025 election could be called, with some races down to only a few hundred votes.
Despite the uncertainty, there are several patterns emerging in the still-undecided seats.

Simon Welsh from Redbridge Group and John Ratcliff from Accent Research, both election analysts, shared insights with SBS News on Monday afternoon regarding key seats to keep an eye on.

Teals in trouble

Ratcliff said that, compared to expectations, .
“They’ve done well in Sydney, they’ve held the seats they have in Sydney — Bradfield looks likely but it’s close,” he said.
The Sydney seats of Mackellar, Wentworth and Warringah have also all been retained by independents.

However, things are looking a bit tighter in Victoria’s teal-held seats.

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“The two community independents in Melbourne are struggling,” Ratcliff said.
Kooyong — where independent MP Monique Ryan is fending off Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer — is still too close to call.
“It will take some days — possibly some weeks — for the outcome to be confirmed,” Ryan wrote on Facebook on Monday morning.
The seat of Goldstein — where incumbent teal Zoe Daniels is up against the Liberals’ Tim Wilson — is also down to the wire.
Welsh said Goldstein is demographically different to other teal seats.

“It doesn’t have that typical teal mix of progressive urban, older middle class and younger people coming in,” he said.

Greens’ vote shifting

Ratcliff said in this election, although it wasn’t a result that was completely at odds with recent polling.
“The Greens’ primary votes have been going backwards in most of the inner cities of most of Australia’s big metros for about a year,” he said.
“So this isn’t just an election campaign thing.”

Ratcliff said the primary vote for the Greens went backwards in Melbourne, Macnamara, Griffith, Ryan, and Brisbane.
“The Greens are blaming Liberal preferences, but their own primary vote dropped in most of their seats,” he said.
However, the party’s vote across the nation as a whole has not dropped.
Ratcliff and Welsh said the Greens had picked up more votes in outer suburban areas, which could become a future battleground for political hopefuls running on a Greens ticket.

The party hasn’t secured any additional seats so far. However, Labor’s Peter Khalil is experiencing a challenging race against ex-Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam in the Melbourne seat of Wills, which remains unresolved as of the latest update.

Bucking the Labor wave

, that isn’t uniformly the case.
Welsh said the seat of Bendigo in Central Victoria is seeing “really interesting” results.
“It’s a bucking of the trend — this is a Labor seat going potentially National,” he said.

“In fact, my gut feel is that it will be going to the Nationals.”
The seat is held by Labor MP Lisa Chesters, who is facing a strong contest from the Nationals’ Andrew Lethlean.
Welsh said a Nationals win in the seat could have long-lasting implications.
“The implications of that for the Victorian state election next year are that Bendigo is the region where the premier has her seat,” he said.
Ratcliff added the electorate “could go either way at this point”.
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