Teal candidate Nicolette Boele has provisionally claimed the Sydney seat of Bradfield by a wafer-thin margin, with a recount now on the cards.
Boele finished ahead of Liberal Party candidate Gisele Kapterian by 40 votes following the latest round of ballot counting on Monday, figures from the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) show.
With the electorate decided by fewer than 100 votes, ABC election guru Antony Green said “Bradfield will go to an automatic re-count”.
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More than two weeks on from the federal election, counting continued for the tightly-contested electorate on Monday.
But the recount means an official winner could still be at least days away from being confirmed.
Bradfield was previously called by some for the Liberals, but the result swung back into the balance by a surge in absent and postal votes that went Boele’s way.
Boele narrowly lost the same seat to Liberal Paul Fletcher in 2022, but he did not contest it in 2025 after retiring from federal politics.
If Boele does hold on this time around, she will become the 10th independent in the lower house.
Labor currently holds 93 of 150 seats in the House of Representatives, while the Coalition has 43.
The Greens have one and other minor parties have two seats.
The Victorian seat of Calwell remains in doubt.
