ELECTION MULTICULTURAL

Many of the marginal seats the Labor Party won in Saturday's election have a high percentage of migrants living in them.And as reports, questions are being asked about whether the Coalition spent enough time or money cultivating the migrant vote.

Bill Shorten and Tany Plibersek in Penrith Source: AAP

Labor's Emma Husar won the marginal seat of Lindsay in Sydney's west with a swing of 4-and-a-half per cent.

Similar swings happened in the seats of Macquarie and Macarthur -- all areas with highly multicultural populations.

Naomi Tsvirko Kazzi, from the El Telegraph Weekend, a newspaper serving Arabic-speaking communities, says the Coalition did not push hard to reach those populations.