Voters in the northern suburbs appear to have returned incumbent Labor MPs Rob Mitchell, Andrew Giles and Maria Vamvakinou in the 2016 federal election.
While counting is continuing in the seats of McEwen, Scullin and Calwell, with some polling places, pre-poll and postal votes yet to be returned, it appears voters have thrown their support behind the three MPs with swings of up to 8 per cent towards Labor.
Mr Mitchell is likely to hold his seat of McEwen, despite challenges from eight other candidates, including embattled Liberal candidate Chris Jermyn.
Before the election, Mr Mitchell held the seat with a margin of 0.3 per cent.
But at the close of counting on Saturday night, there was a swing of 8.32 per cent towards Mr Mitchell.
In Calwell, Ms Vamvakinou is likely to be returned, securing 69.55 per cent of the two-party preferred vote at the close of counting on Saturday.
The safe seat was plagued by confusion around the affiliation of candidate John Hsu.
Mr Hsu quit the Liberal Party after his alleged links to a brothel were exposed, choosing instead to run as an independent.
However, his resignation from the party came after nominations closed, meaning he was listed in the ballot paper as a Liberal.
Mr Giles appears to have been returned in the safe seat of Scullin, where Labor had pledged $67 million to connect O’Herns Road with the Hume Freeway if a Labor government was elected.
Mr Giles took to Facebook on Monday morning to say he was excited to be going to work and to still have “the privilege of working for the diverse communities of fantastic people which make up the Scullin electorate”.
