Election result

All votes cast today will be counted tonight, along with the majority of pre-poll ballots submitted in the previous two weeks. But postal votes won't be ...

“If it’s really close we might have to wait the 13 days until all the postal votes are back,” he said. There’s a strong chance we won’t find out who has won the election tonight if the results are close. Victorian state manager for the Australian Electoral Commission, Nye Coffee, told 3AW it could be up to 13 days before we have an election result.