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The Greens are likely to expand their numbers in Victoria's lower house, but with Labor projected to retain its majority the government won't need their support.

The Victorian Labor government has been returned with a comfortable majority, as Premier Daniel Andrews hailed the result a triumph of hope over hate.

The Victorian state election is today. There are 88 single-member lower house seats with members elected by preferential voting, and 40 upper house seats in eight five-member electorates. The election in the lower house seat of Narracan has been postponed owing to a candidate’s death.

Polls have closed in Victoria, but on the final day of voting, some centres ran out of ballot papers and hand-written ones had to be given out.