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<postdate>2024-10-19 22:16:27</postdate>
<headline>Labor holds on to power alongside diminished Greens</headline>
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<caption>Andrew Barr will extend his reign as ACT chief minister with Labor set to form minority government. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)</caption>
<p><span class="kicker-line">ByÂ <b>Jacob Shteyman</b>Â in Canberra</span></p>
<p><strong>Labor is on track to scrape back into power in the ACT alongside the Greens despite losing ground to the Liberals.</strong></p>
<p>As counting continued, ABC election guru Antony Green called the result for the Labor-Greens coalition at 9.15pm local time on Saturday.</p>
<p>Despite his party suffering a negative 3.3 per cent swing, the result means Labor leader Andrew Barr will extend his record reign as chief minister beyond a decade.</p>
<p>With 13 seats the magic number to form government in the 25-member Legislative Assembly, Labor appears to have won 10 seats and the Greens three.</p>
<p>Labor managed to hold on to all its seats from the 2020 election.</p>
<p>By comparison, the Greens suffered a smaller swing against them of 1.7 per cent, but due to the nature of the Hare-Clark system, shed half their seats.</p>
<p>The Liberals were on track to pick up one seat under leader Elizabeth Lee, likely to end up with 10 members.</p>
<p>But it was not enough to topple the 23-year-old government, with much of the vote share lost by Labor and the Greens soaked up by independents.</p>
<p>Fiona Carrick in the electorate of Murrumbidgee and Thomas Emerson in Kurrajong were on track to become the first independents elected in the ACT since 1998.</p>
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