Election News : Federal Election Australia Votes 2010

Australia's future by a thread after no clear winner emerged in a cliffhanger election on Saturday and the final result is more days.

The result was too close to call "a winner," said Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the Labour Party at the current address to supporters on Saturday night in Melbourne.

Around midnight, with 76 percent of the vote, Labour is to be leading with 50.5 percent votes believed, while Liberal-National coalition, Tony Abbott, 49.5 percent, on the basis of the available online Australian Electoral Commission.

A successful party has 76 of the 150 seats in parliament, but analysts expect both parties will fail. This means that Australia may end up with his first victory in parliament since 1940.
"There are days that you disturb, but I will fight," said Gillard.

Abbott said the same results there is only one indication that the Labour Party has lost its legitimacy.

"The coalition is back in business," he told supporters in Sydney. "The Australians responded to the policy, we have hope for the election."

Compulsory for adults in Australia, and expects more than 14 million, to vote. The representative of the Commission, said he could not say when final results are published.

economic issues were in the forefront in the campaign. Both candidates tried to convince skeptical public that they will get the country into the black within three years.

Australia has a history of low unemployment at 5.1 percent, while the country has to avoid during the recession of the global economic decline.

Both major parties promised to reduce the government deficit simple - the public debt, only 6 percent of gross domestic product - the country and return to profit within three years.

Gillard said her priorities include keeping the economy strong. Abbott said the Federal Government of the waste will end up paying debts and new taxes to stop.

Other issues include how the Australian voter is to do with asylum seekers, illegal immigrants and smuggling of persons, and whether it meet carbon emissions reduction scheme (PRS).

Abbott led the Liberal Party, which, however, a coalition of conservative and center-right with the residents. Fourth Party, Green Party, much smaller and has a strong environmental ethic.

Both major parties have no major ideological differences. Instead, many saw the election as a chance for voters to the resignation of Labor Kevin Rudd, to assess the once one of the highest popularity ratings of any Australian leader.