The outcome of the Queensland election is still undecided, but Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is confident Labor will secure the 47 seats it needs to form a majority government.
Counting will resume on Sunday, but a result could be days away.
The count has been complicated by One Nation's decision to preference the Greens last and all sitting MPs second last, and the reintroduction of compulsory preferential voting.
At the end of counting on Saturday night, with around 60 per cent of the votes in 93 seats were counted, Labor was ahead on 43 seats with the LNP on 34. Katter's Australian Party retained its two seats.
Ten seats are still undecided, and pre-polling and postal votes could eventually determine the make-up of the newly expanded 93-seat parliament.
In a bad night for the LNP, three opposition frontbenchers in Scott Emerson, Ian Walker and Andrew Cripps were likely to lose their seats.
It was an even worse night for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party which is yet to pick up a seat and lost its state leader, Steve Dickson, and star candidate Malcolm Roberts when they failed to make an impact in Buderim or Ipswich.
The Greens lost to Jackie Trad in South Brisbane, but the party's candidate Amy MacMahon savaged the deputy premier's big majority.
But in the new Brisbane seat of Maiwar, the Greens are in with a fighting chance of having their first MP in the Queensland parliament.
Mr Emerson, the LNP's shadow treasurer looks to be gone, with the fight now between Labor's Ali King or the Greens Michael Berkman.
On Saturday night, Ms Palaszczuk said she expected Labor would be able to govern for the next three years in its own right.
"Tonight, we are close to the peak but we are not quite there and we will not get there tonight. But I remain confident we will be able to form a majority Labor government."
During the four-week campaign, Ms Palaszczuk ruled out striking any deals with minor parties or independents and put the pressure on the LNP, who were linked to an "unholy" One Nation alliance, to do the same.
"I will never sell out the needs of Queenslanders by doing a deal with One Nation," she said. "And it is clear the majority of Queenslanders agree with me."
One Nation failed to have the impact predicted by Senator Hanson, who had been the face of the party's Queensland election campaign,
But votes to One Nation and their preferences have decided, and will decide, many seats in the regions.
Opposition leader Tim Nicholls was quick to put put the pressure on Ms Palaszczuk to keep her word and not do any deals with the Greens, KAP or One Nation.
"That was her promise," he told his supporters. "Will she keep her word?"
"Queenslanders have voted to shake things up and it's clear the premier has not won a majority in her own right."
The polarising Adani megamine issue, which plagued Ms Palaszczuk throughout the campaign, especially when she backflipped on a taxpayer-funded loan for a rail line, did not hurt Labor as much as feared.
As of the end of counting, Labor was set to hold all three Townsville-based seats where voters have been told Adani will mean a jobs boom.
Two independents may also be entering parliament. Sandra Bolton is leading the primary vote in Noosa, while local mayor Margaret Strelow, is poised to upset Barry O'Rourke who beat her for Labor pre-selection, in Rockhampton.
Counting is expected to resume at 9am.
