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Politics
Maeve Bannister

Vote count pointing towards Labor majority

Labor is on track to secure the minimum number of seats required to form a majority government.

Numbers tallied by the Australian Electoral Commission show Labor currently leading with 76 seats. But some, including the seat of Gilmore on the NSW south coast, are too close to call.

On Monday morning senior Labor figures were not ready to claim a majority government victory, but said there was a "strong and credible path" towards it.

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