NSW election 2023: Chris Minns claims victory in front of Labor party supporters in Sydney. Follow live results and updates. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP
NSW election 2023: Chris Minns claims victory in front of Labor party supporters in Sydney. Follow live results and updates. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP
As of 7:30PM, just over 5% of the vote has been counted
It’s still early in the night but some networks have already called a handful of seats and likely results based on these early results.
The ABC’s election analyst Antony Green says there is a 6.7% swing towards Labor as it currently stands. He has called the following number of seats for each party, and some of those seats are named below:
‘A genuine contest’ is a win, says Simon Holmes à Court
Simon Holmes à Court is playing down the chances of teal candidates as counting ramps up.
Holmes à Court, whose fundraising group Climate 200 is supporting a number of candidates particularly in seats on Sydney’s north shore and northern beaches, told channel Seven he’ll be happy even if the efforts of some teal candidates only turns some safe Coalition seats marginal.
“Bringing a genuine contest in these seats…that’s a win before we start,” he said.
As of 7:15PM, just over 2.1% of votes have been counted.
It’s still early days but some networks have already called a handful of seats based on these early results.
These are fairly safe seats and don’t say much about the overall direction of the election tonight, but so far the ABC have called four seats for the Coalition and two for Labor.
Matt Kean says a Coalition reelection would be ‘an historic victory’
The treasurer, Matt Kean, is on ABC’s election coverage tonight, and has said earlier said “the deck is stacked against” the Coalition tonight.
“It would be an historic victory because it hasn’t been done before, four terms, so fighting the tide of history is like fighting gravity. The deck is stacked against us here. It is going to be Mount Everest to climb,” he said.
“The challenge for us was to present ourselves as a new government, not the reiteration of a 12-year-old government,” Kean said.
Kean also said that in the face of a wave of a “teal onslaught” of challengers in seats on Sydney’s north shore, the Liberal’s “strategy was to take a lot of those issues off the table before the election whether it was climate (or) energy”.
“We were focusing on the core equity of the Liberal National brand which is the economy, so from January up to election day it was all about the economy.”
David Elliott says ‘not good news’ for Liberal party so far
Outgoing Liberal minister David Elliott says early results trickling through suggest poor performances for his party in key western Sydney seats.
“Not good news for the Liberal party unfortunately,” he said on channel Seven’s coverage.
Elliott said he was hearing of “significant swings in western and northwestern Sydney” and even in Castle Hill “that would suggest to me it could be an early night for a few people in western Sydney”.
However Elliott said it was still early in the evening.
David Elliott speaking to the media in 2021. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP
Party organisers are expecting a few hundred guests including the premier, Dominic Perrottet, later in the evening and hoping other high-profile Liberals including former prime minister, John Howard, pop in.
Party faithful are expected to arrive from 7.30.
This is the scene at the Hilton. We’re expecting “a few hundred” here and they’ll start rolling in about 7.30. pic.twitter.com/CbObYHd5Vn
