Judgment day arrives for NSW Labor after 12 years in the political wilderness

Labor will need to win nine seats in the NSW election to govern in majority, a feat that will require picking up a uniform swing of about 6.5%. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

On Friday, as Labor’s election bus took a final, weary lap through a clutch of key seats in Sydney’s west, the upper house MP and unofficial campaign DJ Rose Jackson began blasting One Day More, from the musical Les Misérables.

“Tomorrow is the judgment day.”