Still in doubt: the eight seats that will decide if the Coalition has a majority

The Liberal leader, Scott Morrison, speaks to supporters after the Coalition’s upset victory in the Australian election. It needs to win only two of the remaining eight seats in doubt to secure an overall majority. Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP

The results in eight undecided seats will determine whether Scott Morrison will govern in his own right or be reliant on lower house votes from the crossbench after Saturday’s upset election result.

The Coalition needs to win two of the eight seats that remained too close to call at the end of counting on Saturday night to reach the 76 lower house seats necessary to form government.

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It had a narrow lead in two of the seats, the South Australian seat of Boothby and the Victorian seat of Chisholm.

Labor was leading in five, the Queensland seats of Blair and Lilley, the New South Wales seats of Eden Monaro and Macquarie and the Western Australian seat of Cowan.

The independent Kerryn Phelps was narrowly in front in the Sydney seat of Wentworth that she won at the byelection caused by the resignation of Malcolm Turnbull.

Almost 73% of the vote has been counted and counting will resume Sunday.