Senate results

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Labor's Luke Gosling is set to win NT seat of Solomon, locking in ... (ABC News)

Key points: ABC election Antony Green says Luke Gosling has "safely retained" the Northern Territory seat; The Country Liberal Party's Tina MacFarlane was ...

But we have to wait and see what happens,” she said. I am hopeful we might be able to get there. Mr Gosling was re-elected in 2019 on a margin of just 3.1 per cent, making Solomon the 12th tightest result in the country. Mr Gosling told a cheering crowd of supporters at the Nightcliff Social Club that "we are the most incredible place in the nation and we will go from strength to strength, hopefully with federal Labor". Labor MP Luke Gosling is projected to retain the Northern Territory electorate of Solomon, becoming the first politician to win the Darwin-based seat three times in a row. The former commando is forecast to get about 59 per cent of the two-candidate preferred count, a significant increase on his margin in the 2019 election.

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Malarndirri McCarthy, Jacinta Price expected to win the Northern ... (ABC News)

Two Indigenous women on opposite sides of the political spectrum are expected to represent the Northern Territory in the Senate.

"There's still people in the bush suffering. Ms Price — a Warlpiri-Celtic woman and former deputy mayor of Alice Springs — said Australians had been "taken for a ride" by The Greens and others on the left side of politics. The CLP's Jacinta Price says the country has been "taken for a ride" by the left side of politics

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Federal election results for the NT are becoming clearer. Here's ... (ABC News)

While some election candidates are already booking flights to Canberra, others are packing up their corflutes and contemplating their next political move.

"That is going to take the best part of two weeks for all of the declaration counts to be concluded." It'll be the first time two Indigenous Territorians have represented the NT in the Senate. Who'll represent the NT in the Senate? In other results in Lingiari, the Greens' Blair McFarland is third on first preferences with about 10 per cent of the vote, while One Nation's Tim Gallard is fourth with just over 5 per cent. While there are still postal, absentee and interstate ballots to be counted, Mr Green believes the CLP won't get enough of the remaining votes to reel in Labor's lead. What's the state of play in Lingiari?

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New Greens senator elected in South Australia, as One Nation, Nick ... (ABC News)

South Australia will have two Greens senators for the first time since 2016, while Nick Xenophon and Rex Patrick almost certainly fail to get elected.

Mr Xenophon — a former colleague of Senator Patrick in the Nick Xenophon Team — said he was waiting to see how the below-the-line votes fell in the Senate. The ungrouped candidates, which included former senators Nick Xenophon, Stirling Griff and Bob Day, also received 3.3 per cent of the vote, while Senator Patrick received 2.1 per cent. One Nation has received the highest vote of any party after Labor, the Liberals and the Greens, but its lead candidate is not hopeful of becoming South Australia's sixth representative in the upper house.

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