Labor is favoured to secure a tight victory but there is a strong possibility the election could deliver a hung parliament.
Dominic Perrottet is hoping to return as premier while Chris Minns is tipped to claim his job.Polling booths have closed in NSW after a gruelling election campaign as the wait begins to find out whether the Liberal-National coalition has been returned to government or if Labor has ended its 12-year stretch in opposition.
The coalition has governed for two years in minority and has 46 seats, while Labor has 38, with nine crossbenchers, including three Greens MPs. The premier voted in Beecroft on Saturday morning, accompanied by wife Helen and daughter Celeste, as school volunteers sold cupcakes and sausages to punters.
Both leaders have campaigned hard in vital seats in Sydney's west, where a third of NSW voters live and many electorates are on a knife edge. Chris Minns enjoys a democracy sausage as he visits a polling booth at Narwee Public School on election day.Former Labor NSW deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt said Labor had "a mountain to climb" to win.Earlier on Saturday Prime Minister Anthony Albanese lent his support to Mr Minns' pitch for premier, campaigning in the Liberal-held seat of Ryde before casting his own vote at a booth in Sydney's innerwest.
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