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Tight contest after early ACT poll count

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Early counting of votes in the ACT election is pointing to a tight contest between Labor and the Liberals.

With 14 per cent tallied at 6.50pm there has been a two per cent swing against the Barr Labor government.

But the Liberals are struggling to pick up enough of a swing necessary to win.

Labor was polling 36.9 per cent of the primary vote, the Liberals 38.4 per cent and the Greens 9.3 per cent.

Greens MLA Shane Rattenbury said the early count showed there was no landslide in one direction or the other.

"It will come down to the last four seats," he said on ABC TV.

Early predictions have Labor and the Liberals each winning 10 of the 25 seats in the expanded Legislative Assembly, the Greens one and the remaining four up for grabs.

Mr Rattenbury said the early results showed a distinct split between the north and south of the city.

Labor was performing more strongly in the northern electorates while the Liberals were stronger in the south, traditionally a strong area for the party.

Liberal MLA Vicki Dunne suggested the results reflected the unpopularity of Labor's light rail project, which is only linking the northern suburbs in its first stage.

"The further away you go from the stage one of the tram route, the more unpopular it is and I think would be manifested in the fairly high vote in ... Brindabella," she told the ABC.


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