Greens leader Adam Bandt, during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 27 March 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
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Liberal candidate Tim Wilson has overtaken teal independent MP Zoe Daniel in the vote count for the south-eastern Melbourne seat of Goldstein, as key seats in Victoria hang in the balance.

Nine seats in the state are on a knife-edge today as the counting of votes from the federal election continues.

Among the political heavyweights at risk of losing their seats are Greens leader Adam Bandt and teal independents Zoe Daniel and Monique Ryan.

Greens leader Adam Bandt, during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 27 March 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Greens leader Adam Bandt is one political heavyweight under threat from a Labor challenge, (Alex Ellinghausen)

With 80 per cent of the vote counted, Wilson is 350 votes in front of incumbent MP Daniel in Goldstein in the two-party-preferred vote.

Historically one of the Liberal Party’s safest Victorian seats, Wilson is vying to reclaim his place in Parliament after he became a casualty on the teal-wave in 2022.

More than 10,000 votes clear of the former journalist in the first preference vote, the Liberals currently have an-almost two per cent swing towards them in the count.

Daniel will need to pick up large numbers of postal votes to keep her seat, analysts predict.

Teal-independent colleague Monique Ryan is also fighting to hang on to her seat up the road in Kooyong after suffering a two per cent swing against her.

The incumbent currently holds just a 1000 vote lead with almost 80 per cent of votes counted.

Albanese celebrates victory with coffee

Like Wilson in Goldstein, Kooyong’s Liberal challenger Amelia Hamer was also close to 10 per cent clear of her independent opponent in the first preference vote.

Both teal-independent incumbents were seen celebrating on election night, where they enjoyed early leads in the count.

But Ryan said yesterday she expects a final result to take days or even weeks.

In Melbourne, Bandt says he is confident of defending his seat, despite Labor candidate Sarah Witty mounting a major challenge.

In what has been a mixed electoral performance, the Greens have conceded defeat in the seats of Brisbane and Griffith.

Meanwhile, Daniel and Ryan remain locked in titanic struggles to retain their Melbourne seats.

Teal independent Zoe Daniel is facing a tough battle to retain her seat of Goldstein in Melbourne. (PENNY STEPHENS)

The Senate results may also take weeks to be finalised, with Jacqui Lambie is in a tight race to retain her seat.

In the Northern Territory, Labor incumbent Malarndirri McCarthy and Country Liberal counterpart Jacinta Nampijinpa Price will retain their upper house seats. 

The mandatory second count of all votes will be started today by the Australian Electoral Commission.

Officials have counted more than 14 million first preference House of Representative ballot papers since the close of the election last Saturday.

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