Labor has won the blue-ribbon South Australian state seat of Morphett from the Liberal Party, the ABC projects.
However, the Liberals are not yet conceding defeat.
New counting in the state election today has Labor’s Toby Priest with a 290-vote lead over Liberal frontbencher Stephen Patterson.
Labor has now won 34 of the 47 seats in the lower house of South Australian parliament, while the Liberals have five and One Nation two.
Two seats held by independents, Narungga and MacKillop, are still in doubt.
Liberal Stephen Patterson played football for Collingwood and Norwood. (ABC News)
Mr Patterson has been the Member for Morphett since 2018.
He was an AFL and SANFL footballer and then the mayor of Holdfast Bay before being elected.
Most recently, he served as the Liberals’ spokesman for energy, mining, defence and space industries.
Deputy Liberal leader Josh Teague, who was confirmed as winning his seat of Heysen on Friday, said counting was still underway in Morphett and the party had not yet admitted defeat.
“Stephen Patterson is my close friend and close colleague,” Mr Teague said.
“We came into the parliament together, I hold him in the highest regard and, if the outcome of Morphett goes against him, then Stephen Patterson will be a great loss to the South Australian parliament and our party indeed.”
The Liberal Party has held Morphett since 1979, apart from for one year ahead of the 2018 election.
The seat is centred around the beachside suburb of Glenelg and was previously held with a 4.5 per cent margin.
Mr Priest is a teacher at St Thomas School in Goodwood and a boarding supervisor at Immanuel College in Novar Gardens.