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Federal election latest: Which seats are still in doubt?

Australians are still waiting to hear who will be the final choices to sit in the next federal parliament. (Wikimedia Commons: JJ Harrison)

A week on from last Saturday's federal election and Labor is still one seat shy of forming majority government, where the party can govern in its own right.

The Labor Party is currently on 75 federal seats

Three seats remain in doubt after the seat of Brisbane was called for the Greens on Saturday afternoon. 

This is how things are looking at the moment.

The seats still in doubt

Macnamara, Victoria

With 76.2 per cent of the votes counted, Labor's Josh Burns leads by 18,525 votes.

ABC's chief elections analyst, Antony Green, explains that scrutineer figures — based on an AEC preference throw for the five lowest-polling candidates — is producing preference flows of 18 per cent to Labor, 34 per cent to the Greens and 48 per cent to the Liberals.

"Applying those puts the final three candidates within 1,000 votes of each other," he said.

"If the Greens or Liberal candidates are third, Labor wins. If the Labor candidate is third, the Greens win.

"For this reason, Macnamara is being left in doubt."

This electorate includes the suburbs of Port Melbourne, South Melbourne, Middle Park, South Yarra, St Kilda, Balaclava, Elwood and parts of Elsternwick and Caulfield. 

Deakin, Victoria

With 86.4 per cent of the votes counted, the seat of outgoing Liberal assistant treasurer Michael Sukkar is still a close call.

At present, Mr Sukkar is ahead of the Labor Party's Matt Gregg by 655 votes.

Deakin includes all, or parts of, the suburbs of Blackburn, Forest Hill, Mitcham, Vermont, Ringwood, Heathmont, Croydon and Bayswater North.

Gilmore, New South Wales

The federal seat of Gilmore has only 247 votes separating Liberal challenger, former NSW transport minister Andrew Constance, and Labor incumbent Fiona Phillips.

Gilmore is a mixed electorate, covering 6,342 square kilometres on the NSW south coast.

It's been a narrow margin in this race, and more postal votes are anticipated to arrive up until June 3.

This seat was called on Saturday:

Brisbane, Queensland

Greens candidate Stephen Bates has won the seat of Brisbane, defeating the LNP's Trevor Evans

ABC data analyst Casey Briggs said absent votes counted on Saturday firmed up the 29-year-old retail worker's lead over Labor candidate Madonna Jarrett.

This electorate includes the suburbs of New Farm, Newstead, Bowen Hills, Windsor, Kelvin Grove, Newmarket, Enoggera, Wilston, Albion, Clayfield, Ascot, Hamilton, Lutwyche, Wooloowin and parts of Stafford.

When will vote-counting finish?

As well as the votes made in person, including pre-polls, there has also been a mountain of postal votes to sort through, with many of these taking up to two weeks to arrive before they can be counted. 

These postal votes could be vital in determining the outcome in seats where the count is close.

Australian Electoral Commission staff have been sorting and counting votes since polls closed on Saturday, May 21. 

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