Labor is well on track for a sixth successive election victory in the ACT, again governing in minority with a resurgent Greens.
With counting due to continue well into next week, Labor appears to have won at least 11 seats and the Greens three, out of the 25-seat assembly.
Labor's primary vote was hovering at just over 38 per cent, while the Liberals polled 33 per cent and the Greens just under 14 per cent.Liberal campaigners sheeted home the Labor win to the benefits of incumbency as the coronavirus pandemic continued and the difficulty of campaigning amid a global crisis.
"The ACT is the answer to the travesty we saw in last week's federal budget, which was a trickle-down budget, a gas-led future and one that completely ignored the desperate need for new social housing in this country," he said.
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