Berejiklian government secures majority government with win in Dubbo
The Berejiklian government has secured a majority in NSW by winning a 47th seat in the 93-seat lower house following the weekend's election.
The Coalition was returned to power on Saturday for a third-straight term but it wasn't immediately clear if it had won enough seats to govern in its own right.
That question was answered on Monday with Nationals candidate Dugald Saunders achieving a winning lead in the seat of Dubbo.
The NSW Election Commission's Virtual Tally Room showed Saunders was ahead of independent candidate Mathew Dickerson on Monday afternoon and preference flows are expected to favour the Nationals candidate as the count continues.
Nearly 83 per cent of votes in Dubbo have been counted.
Labor's Janelle Saffin has won the northern NSW seat of Lismore while earlier on Monday, Marjorie O'Neill claimed Coogee for Labor, unseating Liberal MP Bruce Notley-Smith.
Labor now has 36 seats in the lower house, the Greens and Shooters three each and there are three independents.
East Hills is the only seat still yet to be decided with the Liberal's Wendy Lindsay narrowly ahead of Labor's Cameron Murphy.
with AAP