Premier Mike Baird has urged NSW voters to make their vote count in what believes will be a tight election, despite polls showing he'll cruise to victory.
In an early morning plea, Mr Baird said pollsters don't always predict the winner.
"Look at recent elections, you saw polls predicted the complete opposite before election day," he said on Saturday.
"Don't listen to those polls, it is a very tight election. Make your vote count."
After just 11 months in the top job, Mr Baird is expected to deliver a second term to the coalition despite facing ICAC scandals, strong anti-coal seam gas sentiments across the state and a concerted union and Labor backed campaign against his electricity privatisation plan.
Opposition Leader Luke Foley, who has only been in the job since January, will hope voters have believed his claim that Labor has learned its lesson from its last years of government and recent corruption scandals.
Labor is all but certain to win back a raft of seats with a large swing expected towards it across the state.
Mr Baird will hope the "Abbott-factor", which helped bring down conservative first-term governments in Queensland and Victoria, will be limited in NSW with the prime minister having largely been kept out of the campaign.
The premier is expected to vote at Queenscliff Surf Life Saving Club in his local electorate of Manly.
Mr Foley will cast his ballot at Concord West Primary School in the western Sydney seat of Auburn.
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