Antony Green says AEC election count ‘just not right’

ELECTION guru Antony Green has cast doubt on the official seat count from Saturday’s election, claiming “it’s just not right”.

Antony Green says AEC seat count is not right. Picture: ABC

ELECTION analyst Antony Green has cast doubt over the Australian Electoral Commission’s seat count saying “it’s just not right”.

The respected ABC analyst said there was a lot of confusion around how many seats each party had won and much of this was coming from the AEC’s website.

The website currently shows Labor having won 71 seats and the Coalition with 67 seats.

“That’s just not right, it’s just not right” he told ABC News 24.

Mr Green pointed out there were six seats on the AEC website listed as “undetermined” and this was partly what was causing confusion.

Five of these six seats have been “safely won” by the Coalition, he said, and one of them had been won by Labor.

They include the Sydney seat of Grayndler, which has been claimed as a win for Labor’s Anthony Albanese.

The other seats are Barker in SA, Cowper in NSW, Higgins in VIC and Durack and O’Connor in WA.

If you include these seats in the count, the totals are actually 72 seats each for Labor and the Coalition.

But Mr Green said these numbers would change as the counting continued and he is expecting the Coalition to pick up seats from postal votes, which have favoured the Coalition in the past.

Mr Green said he believes there were 10 seats in doubt. This includes the seat of Grey, which the AEC is currently counting as a win for the Nick Xenophon Team, but which Mr Green believes will remain a Liberal seat.

He predicted the Coalition would probably finish with more seats than Labor. He thinks they will get 73, maybe 74 seats, possibly even 75.

“We will know better tomorrow.”

The AEC has not responded to enquiries about its seat count.

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