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Labor Party faces a major blow, set to lose power in its last state of South Australia after the Liberals claim victory in Tasmania. Nine News.

South Australian voters would feel cheated if Labor was returned to power despite the Liberals getting a majority of the vote, Tony Abbott said in a blunt message to two key independents.

The prime minister praised Liberal leader Steven Marshall and the state party for garnering almost 53 per cent of the two-party preferred vote in Saturdays election, saying in other states it would have given them a thumping majority.

In a shock result, both major parties failed to win enough seats to form a majority government, with each now locked in negotiations with independents Bob Such and Geoff Brock.

It is the second election in a row in which the Liberals have won the majority vote but not secured enough seats after Labor scraped home in key marginal electorates.

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Mr Abbott, who missed out in negotiations to form a minority government after the 2010 federal election, said the South Australian independents should take heed of the Liberals two-party vote.

I suspect that the people of South Australia will feel cheated if having voted quite substantially for a change of government, thats not what they get, Mr Abbott said.

I think thats a message that wont be lost on the independent members of parliament.

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ABC Steven Marshall not in position to form a government on election night

South Australia's political future is in the balance, with the Liberals achieving a statewide swing in the 2014 election but remaining tantalisingly short of the six lower house gains needed to form a government.

Liberal leader Steven Marshall addressed the party faithful at a hotel in Adelaide's south-eastern suburbs four hours after the polls closed, saying he was not in a position to form government.

"I think we stand a good chance in a range of seats including Mitchell, including Elder, including Ashford and Wright," he said.

"We're not in a position to claim victory tonight despite our outstanding result, increasing our vote and increasing our two-party preferred vote but we will do what we can over the coming days."

Mr Marshall praised the performance of all Liberal candidates and singled out three who he was sure would be in the next parliament.

Vincent Tarzia is confident of a victory in Hartley over Labor government minister Grace Portolesi, Troy Bell will be the new Liberal member for Mount Gambier, ousting independent Don Pegler, and David Speirs expects to be Bright's new member of parliament with a win over government minister Chloe Fox.

ABC election analyst Antony Green says the Liberals will take the Adelaide seat of Mitchell from Labor's Alan Sibbons, putting Corey Wingard into the new parliament.

The Liberals had 18 seats in the previous parliament, Labor 26 and the other three were in the hands of independents.

Two of those independents might play a pivotal role in which party can form the next government.

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ABC Will Hodgman's Liberals have won 14 seats in the 25-seat Tasmanian parliament.

Tasmanian Liberal leader Will Hodgman has won the state election, ending 16 years in Opposition.

With 80 per cent of the vote counted, the Liberal Party has won more than half the vote and is set to take majority government with 14 seats in the 25-seat Parliament.

It is the Liberals' best ever electoral result.

Mr Hodgman has also broken the hex of being the country's longest-serving Opposition Leader and will be the state's next Premier.

The Tasmanian Liberal Party stormed into power, posting its best electoral result in 60 years.

It is shaping as a comfortable victory for the leader who campaigned on returning the state to a majority government after four years of a Labor-Green minority.

There has been a swing against the Labor Party in all five seats, making it the worst election result for the party in six decades.

The Liberals look set to pick up an extra seat in every electorate except Denison.

ABC analyst Antony Green says Labor has won six seats and the Greens two, with three seats still undecided.

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Tasmania votes: Liberals sweep to power, ending 16 years of Labor rule

Tasmania's Liberals is set for a crushing election victory and a return to office in the island state for the first time in 16 years.

Will Hodgman has led the party to victory at his second attempt and will become the first Liberal premier of the state since Tony Rundle.

Polls had predicted a bloodbath for Labor, who shared power with the Greens for the past four years, and experts were calling the result with barely 10 per cent of the vote counted.

Labor was hard hit in the north and the Greens had also lost electoral support.

Under Tasmania's unique Hare-Clark electoral system, where five members are elected in each seat, the Liberals needed to pick up three for a majority in the 25-seat lower house.

They looked set to win 14, while Labor had won five, the Greens two with four still in doubt.

But in the popular vote it was a landslide, the Liberals claiming at least 53 per cent, a swing of 14, and Mr Hodgman the highest personal tally of any candidate.

The 44-year-old father of three young children comes from a long line of Hodgmans involved in Tasmanian politics, but will be the family's first premier.

His late father Michael was a popular Fraser government minister and state politician.

His grandfather Bill Hodgman and uncle Peter were also members of the state parliament.

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Tas Liberals set to win majority govt

Tasmania's Liberals is set for a crushing election victory and a return to office in the island state for the first time in 16 years.

Will Hodgman has led the party to victory at his second attempt and will become the first Liberal premier of the state since Tony Rundle.

Polls had predicted a bloodbath for Labor, who shared power with the Greens for the past four years, and experts were calling the result with barely 10 per cent of the vote counted.

Labor was hard hit in the north and the Greens had also lost electoral support.

Under Tasmania's unique Hare-Clark electoral system, where five members are elected in each seat, the Liberals needed to pick up three for a majority in the 25-seat lower house.

They looked set to win 14, while Labor had won five, the Greens two with four still in doubt.

But in the popular vote it was a landslide, the Liberals claiming at least 53 per cent, a swing of 14, and Mr Hodgman the highest personal tally of any candidate.

The 44-year-old father of three young children comes from a long line of Hodgmans involved in Tasmanian politics, but will be the family's first premier.

His late father Michael was a popular Fraser government minister and state politician.

His grandfather Bill Hodgman and uncle Peter were also members of the state parliament.

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