The Australian's Victorian election blog 2010

The Australian's Victorian election blog 2010 : The Australian's Victorian election night blog tracked the twists and turns of a close vote. Read how the night unfolded.

11.27pm (AEDT). Pia Akerman reports: Labor supporters have booed while watching Ted Baillieu's speech on television at the ALP Broadmeadows function, shortly after John Brumby urged them to wait for a clear result. With his wife and children watching on, Mr Brumby said a hung parliament now seemed the likely outcome. “The work begins tomorrow,” he said. “If we get the chance to form government then I believe we will do better and provide the exciting, fresh new policies.”

Those gathered around TVs watching Mr Baillieu's speech shortly after taunted him to “go on, claim it”, demonstrating their revived enthusiasm after a grim start to the evening's results. The ALP function is now wrapping up, with buses on offer for the trip back to the city.

11:20pm (AEDT). Rebecca Puddy reports: The Greens election party is slowly drawing to a close. While the election certainly hasn't gone as well as they hoped when the writs were issued a month ago, for the hundreds of supporters attending the party tonight, the mood has been one of excitement and pride.

Despite the predictions Labor will retain inner-city seats, Senator Bob Brown says one or two seats could get across the line.

Richard Di Natale is optimistic the party will increase its presence in the upper house, believing the party has kept its current three upper house seats, with Western Victoria and Eastern Victoria also potentially falling to the Greens.

Regardless of the outcome, The Greens say they are happy with their campaign, anticipating they have increased their vote by 3 per cent state-wide. Revellers are now moving onto an after-party. The organisers have promised that, unlike the federal election after-party, it wont be held at the same place as the Labor after-party.Read More ..