COALITION
CORANGAMITE - Sarah Henderson won the country's most marginal seat of Corangmite on the Victorian southwest coast.
PETRIE, CAPRICORNIA – LNP looks to have picked up the northern Brisbane seat of Petrie and the Rockhampton seat of Capricornia from Labor.
DOBELL, ROBERTSON - The NSW Central Coast seats have moved from Labor to the Liberals. Craig Thomson failed miserably as an independent, replaced by Karen McNamara. Lucy Wicks defeated Labor MP Deb O'Neill in Robertson.
NEW ENGLAND - Barnaby Joyce successfully moved from the Senate to the House, regaining the northern NSW seat for the Nationals after the retirement on independent Tony Windsor.
LYNE - Likewise, National David Gillespie has taken back the nearby seat after the retirement of independent Rob Oakeshott.
PAGE - Another one-time traditional National seat has returned to the fold, with Kevin Hogan taking the seat back from Labor's Janelle Page.
TASMANIA - Liberal candidates have picked up three of the five Tassie seats (Bass, Braddon, Lyons), with cabinet minister Julie Collins the only Labor MP retaining her seat of Franklin. Independent Andrew Wilkie has easily held onto Denison.
LABOR
GREENWAY - Michelle Rowland held on for Labor in the western Sydney seat, helped in no small part by the Liberal candidate Jaymes Diaz whose campaign was ridiculed for his mangled answer when asked to outline coalition policy and his resultant ducking of the media.
McMAHON - Treasurer Chris Bowen held on despite fears he would lose in a Labor backlash in western Sydney.
KINGSFORD SMITH - Matt Thistlethwaite survives scare to retain the beachside Sydney seat vacated by Peter Garrett.
QUEENSLAND - Labor seems to have held onto most of its Queensland seats - including vanquished PM Kevin Rudd and ex-treasurer Wayne Swan. Still in doubt Forde (Peter Beattie) and Petrie (Yvette D'Ath) and Capricornia. Labor did not pick up any seats.
BRAND - Gary Gray appears to have held on in the Perth seat despite expectations
PERTH - High profile candidate Allanah MacTiernan
PALMER UNITED PARTY
FAIRFAX - Clive Palmer billionaire is a serious chance of becoming Clive Palmer MP with a strong showing in the Sunshine Coast seat of Fairfax. Counting is still to be finalised. In neighbouring Fisher, former Speaker Peter Slipper has been seen off, but PUP candidate William Schoch may spoil former Howard government minister Mal Brough's return party. Big name candidate John Bjelke-Petersen failed in Maranoa.
The Brick with Eyes, former league star Glenn Lazarus, looks like being a PUP senator from July 1 next year.
GREENS
MELBOURNE - Adam Bandt remains the Greens only lower house MP after holding on to the formerly safe Labor seat of Melbourne for a second term, with only a small swing against him. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is in trouble
LABOR GONE
BANKS - Daryl Melham
BASS - Geoff Lyons
BRADDON - Sid Sidebottom
DEAKIN - Mike Symons
DOBELL - Craig Thomson (ex-ALP)
CORANGAMITE - Darren Cheeseman
HINDMARSH - Steve Georganas
LA TROBE - Laura Smyth
LINDSAY - Assistant treasurer David Bradbury
PAGE - Janelle Safin
ROBERTSON - Deb O'Neill
IN DOUBT
BARTON (NSW, ALP)
BENDIGO (Vic, ALP)
CAPRICORNIA (Qld, ALP)
EDEN-MONARO - Labor minister Mike Kelly is likely to hold on
FORDE - Peter Beattie unlikely to oust LNP MP
INDI - Liberal Sophie Mirabella is likely to hold on
LINGIARI - Labor minister Warren Snowdon in trouble
MCEWEN (Vic, ALP)
O'CONNOR (WA, Nats) - Nationals likely to hold
PETRIE - (Qld, ALP)
REID (NSW, ALP)
