Labor Party well short of 60 seats with nine in limbo The face of a disaster for Labor ... Kevin Rudd, twice Australia's prime minister, concedes defeat to Tony Abbott. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images) Source: Getty Images NINE seats across the country are still in limbo with only a handful votes separating some battles as Labor is set to fall well short of 60 seats in the lower house. With counting and possible recounting set to last for days, the Liberals had secured at least 86 seats last night and led in another four seats. Labor had at least 52 seats and was ahead in another four seats. Kevin Rudd concedes defeat in his 22 minute speech from Brisbane. The Greens held Adam Bandt's seat of Melbourne while Katter's Australia Party MP Bob Katter held Kennedy as did Tasmanian crossbencher Andrew Wilkie in Denison. The national swing against the Labor government was 3.5 per cent after preferences while the Greens suffered a similar move against them. Election loser ... former Labor Cabinet minister David Bradbury casts a vote with his family at Claremont Meadows Public School in Sydney's west. In undecided seats, the Coalition was leading in the Labor seats of Reid (619 votes), Petrie (600 votes) and Eden Monaro (246 votes). But Labor was ahead in its seats of Parramatta (964 votes), Capricornia (140 votes), Barton (62 votes) and McEwen (73 votes). In the Queensland seat of Fairfax, the Australian Electoral Commission is not showing a two party preferred vote but the ABC has Clive Palmer ahead on preferences against Liberal candidate Ted O'Brien. In the Victorian electorate of Indi, no official preferences count has been released but the ABC said Liberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella was ahead on preferences against Independent Cathy McGowan. Labor suffered its biggest swings in Tasmania and Victoria where the move against the government reached into double digits. In Tasmania, the swing was 11.18 per cent after preferences. In Victoria, it was 6 per cent. In South Australia, Labor suffered a 5 per cent swing. But the swings were far less than expected in NSW and Queensland, where routs were feared mid-campaign over a perceived toxic anti-Labor sentiment. In NSW, the swing after preferences was 3 per cent. In Queensland, less than 1 per cent but the primary vote swing as bigger at 3.5 per cent. In Western Australia, the swing against the government was just 1 per cent. The donkey vote was at a record high at 5.9 per cent, or 664,000 votes, after a 0.34 per cent rise from the 2010 election. Australian Electoral Commission spokesman Phil Diak said the result could flatten out after postal votes.