Swing steadies as count countinues ELECTORAL officials around the country continue unfolding ballot papers and counting preferences but the final outcome for the 2013 poll is still some days away. With almost three-quarters of the House of Representatives preferences distributed on Sunday afternoon, Labor has suffered a 3.5 percentage point swing against it to win 46.7 per cent of the vote. The coalition is on track to hold at least 86 seats in the 150-seat parliament, the Australian Electoral Commission calculates, with Labor keeping 57 seats. On the crossbench, Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt held on to his seat of Melbourne and Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie retained Denison, both with increased primary votes. Independent Bob Katter kept the Queensland seat of Kennedy but suffered a 16 point swing. Four seats are still too close to call, including Fairfax in Queensland which could be taken by businessman Clive Palmer and the Victorian seat of Indi where independent Cathy McGowan might still oust Liberal Sophie Mirabella. Labor's best showings have been in Queensland and the Northern Territory, where the swing against it was contained to less than a point. Former minister Warren Snowden, who's on track to retain the NT electorate of Lingiari, said Labor's vote appeared to have returned to trend among remote indigenous communities. "The swing against us is well below the national trend," he said. A predicted blowout in NSW never eventuated with voters turning toward the coalition by just three points. In Tasmania, however, Labor's result has worsened as the count continues, with a massive 11.2 point backlash. "Tasmania led the way with a coalition victory," Liberal senator Eric Abetz told reporters in Hobart on Sunday. In the seat of Lyons, Liberal Eric Hutchinson won a 13 point swing from 20-year veteran Labor MP Dick Adams while former army brigadier Andrew Nikolic demolished Labor's Geoff Lyons in Bass. The Labor vote also dropped significantly in Victoria and South Australia. The Greens also suffered across the country. Its primary vote was down by more than three points in the lower house and more than four points in the Senate. In its traditional stronghold of Tasmania, the minor party's primary vote is less than half of the 2010 result. Despite this, leader Christine Milne says her party is on track to hold the same number of seats. "The Greens said we would be judged at this election by whether or not we could hold our seats in the course of a conservative tide coming in across the country - and we have," she told reporters in Melbourne on Sunday.