When announcing the official results of the October 20 territory election, commissioner Phil Green called for reforms to put the territory on a more equal footing with other jurisdictions.

The two major party leaders observed a ceasefire yesterday as the results were officially declared with Labor leader Katy Gallagher and her Liberal opponent Zed Seselja paying tribute to the campaigning efforts of each other's party.

Talks continued between the major parties and balance-of-power Green Shane Rattenbury as Labor and the Liberals tried to court his support to form government.

Greens and Liberals staffers were in discussions on Wednesday and Ms Gallagher and Mr Rattenbury held their second formal meeting.

The sole surviving ACT Greens MLA is expected to hold his second meeting with Mr Seselja on Thursday.

The Electoral Commissioner told The Canberra Times that the poll had been a successful one and that the Hare-Clark system was serving Canberra well but that reforms he had been recommending for nine years were still on the shelf.

''The Assembly with 17 members, from a workload point of view, is too few,'' Mr Green said.

He said he remained worried by ''distortions'' caused by having two five-member electorates in Ginninderra and Brindabella and one seven-member electorate in Molonglo.

''From an electoral systems point of view, the fact you have electorates of different sizes is an issue because you do get a distortion in the five-member seats compared with seven-member seats,'' he said.

''I quoted a submission that we made in 2002 when we recommended that all electorates should have the same number of members.

''There's been several inquiries and they've all recommended it should be increased.

''But because of the complicating fact that it's a Commonwealth power, it's not an ACT power, the two sides of Parliament haven't really agreed to five by five, or three by seven.''

Mr Green said practical considerations meant there were only three realistic options for the size of an expanded Assembly.

''We need the same number of members in each electorate, we need an odd number of members in each electorate, you need a total number of odd members so we don't get a hung parliament,'' he said.

''So really the only options that our submission identified as feasible are 21, 25 or 29 (MLAs) and I don't feel very strongly about any of those.''

He also said the under representation of voters in the ACT's two-tier system could be addressed.

''If you compare the number of elected members per head of population, the ACT has, by a long way, the highest number of voter to members, particularly as we don't have local government and everywhere else in Australia has local government, so there's no dispute that we're unrepresented in that sense, way more than anywhere else,'' he said.

''Even the Northern Territory has local councils, Tasmania has local councils, Tasmania has 12 senators, five members of the House of Reps.

''We've got two of each, so there's no dispute there.''