Several marginal seats are on a knife’s edge, including the pivotal Melbourne electorate of Goldstein and others in the Australian Labor Party’s stronghold of Western Australia.

As votes continue to be counted across the country, there are still seats pending as communities watch the battle continue.

The once safe seat of Bean, in the ACT, is in doubt with independent Jessie Price surging against Labor’s David Smith as it comes down to the wire with more than 80 per cent of votes tallied.

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The razor-thin margin between Labor’s Trish Cook and the Liberal’s Matt Moran in the seat of Bullwinkel, WA, is reflected in a 50-50 split of the votes with nearly 70 per cent of the count completed, while the seat of Forrest in WA has Labor hoping to add to its tally by stealing the seat from the Liberals who hold it with a 4.2 per cent margin.

After nabbing the seat of Goldstein in Victoria from Liberal Tim Wilson in the 2022 election as part of the Teal wave, Zoe Daniel is hoping to retain the crucial Melbourne seat with a slim lead of 1780 votes.

The Greens’ Samantha Ratnam is neck and neck with Labor’s Peter Khalil for the seat of Wills, also in Victoria, the government’s special envoy for social cohesion, where he leads by more than 940 votes in a campaign where Gaza featured heavily.

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) said close seats will be prioritised wherever possible as the counting period progresses.

“On most days throughout the voting period, all votes that are available to be counted for a particular electoral division, are counted,” they said.

“Transport takes time — interstate and overseas votes are transported back to central counting facilities progressively.

“Postal votes have up until 13 days after election day to arrive back to the AEC.”