Coalition lags on candidates as NSW election clock ticks

There are echoes of federal election candidate delays ahead of the NSW state poll. Photo: AAP

The major parties are yet to finalise candidates for a string of seats across NSW, with the Coalition far behind Labor as the election looms.

The state selection process comes after bitter preselection battles dogged the Liberal Party’s doomed federal campaign, during which former prime minister Scott Morrison intervened to make more than a dozen so-called “captain’s picks”.