The NSW parliament will better represent the state than ever but Premier Chris Minns won't be jumping up and down in celebration.
As the final makeup of the parliament becomes clearer, AAP analysis shows the state's parliament is on track to be about 45 per cent women.
In the upper house, it seems more women will be elected than men for the first time while, regardless of the outcome of remaining seats in doubt, the lower house will break its 2019 record for most women elected.
Labor will likely have more women than men on the floor of the lower house, be a sliver off gender equality across the parliament and have a cabinet that is 50 per cent women.
But Mr Minns won't be spruiking those achievements, despite them being an important party goal.
"I don't think it should be celebrated," he told reporters.
"It should be a natural thing for a government in 2023. It should be the standard of every government in the country that half of the cabinet and half of the MPs are women.
"We want to lead a government that looks like the state that we hope to represent. My team and I are committed to doing it."
The calculations assume Labor will win in Ryde and lose in Kiama, while the Liberal female candidates will beat their male opponents in Goulburn and Holsworthy, as appears increasingly likely.
The final seat - Terrigal - is an all-male contest.
In the upper house, all four candidates from the parties likely to face off for the 21st and final seat - the Liberals, Animal Justice, Greens and One Nation - are all women.
Overall, the parliament will be made up of approximately 74 men and 59 women, with One Nation and the Liberals to each fill an upper house vacancy.
For the first time in Australia, a state Greens parliamentary party will be entirely made up of women after Kobi Shetty succeeded Jamie Parker in Balmain.
New Wollondilly MP Judy Hannan will otherwise find a male-dominated cross bench with Helen Dalton (independent) and Emma Hurst (Animal Justice) potentially the only other women crossbenchers in either chamber.
A concerted effort to elevate women on the upper house ballot will take the Liberals closer to gender equality. The party will likely finish with 33 to 35 seats, with 15 or 16 of them women.
But the Nationals will drag the coalition down, having men making up three-quarters of their MPs across both houses.
PARLIAMENT BY THE NUMBERS:
(assumes Labor wins Ryde, independent wins Kiama, Liberals win Goulburn and Holsworthy)
Lower house - 53 men, 40 women
Upper house - 21 men, 19 women, two vacancies
Parliament - 74 men, 59 women, two vacancies
PARTIES
Labor - 31 men, 30 women
Liberal - 18 men, 14 women, one vacancy
Nationals - 12 men, four women
Greens - no men, seven women
Independents/minor parties - 14 men, four women, one vacancy
