The Liberal Party is battling to hold onto key seats in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, while Labor is edging ahead in a tough contest with the Greens for the inner-city electorate of Macnamara.
The party has lost previous stronghold seats in Higgins, Kooyong and GoldsteinNational swings away from the Coalition have been replicated in Victoria, helping Labor sweep to victory.
A number of key Victorian seats may decide whether incoming Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will govern with a majority or minority government.straddles the upper Yarra River and outer-eastern Melbourne suburbs such as Bulleen, Warrandyte, Doncaster, Donvale and Bulleen. Until this election, it had been considered a safe Liberal seat and was held by Mr Andrews on a comfortable 7 per cent margin at the last vote.
As counting closed on Saturday night, the race between outgoing assistant treasurer and housing minister Michael Sukkar and his Labor challenger Matt Gregg was too close to call., which was vacated by outgoing Liberal MP Tony Smith.
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