Eight seats have gone to the Liberals, eight seats to Labor and one to the Greens.

Sitting members Simon Corbell, Labor, and Steve Doszpot, Liberals, scraped over the line in Molonglo.

New faces for the Liberals are Andrew Wall (Brinbabella) and Giulia Jones (Molonglo).

Fresh talent for Labor are Yvette Berry (Ginninderra) and Mick Gentleman (Brindabella), who returns to the Legislative Assembly after a four year absence.

ACT Electoral Commissioner Phil Green said it was the closest territory election he could remember.

Just 41 votes separated the two major parties – the Liberals just beat Labor on that score.

In percentage terms, both ended up with 38.9 per cent of the vote.

Canberra Liberals leader Zed Seselja said his party had a clear mandate because of the 7.3 per cent swing in favour of the candidates he led.

In comparison, Labor had a 1.5 per cent swing towards it.

But Chief Minister Katy Gallagher denied the Liberals had any such mandate to govern.

Ms Gallagher has already contacted Mr Rattenbury to congratulate him, and are planning talks tomorrow morning.

"Certainly, from my point of view, we're very happy with the result," Ms Gallagher said.

"Ultimately, the party who governs will be the party who commands the majority of the floor of the assembly, that's what democracy says and that's what will be the result here," she said.

Molonglo MLA Simon Corbell, who will return to the Legislative Assembly as the longest serving member, said he would be seeking a ministry if Labor returned to power with king-maker Shane Rattenbury’s support.

‘‘If we are fortunate enough to see Katy elected as chief minister when the assembly meets in a week, then yes, I’ll certainly be indicating my willingness to serve as a minister again,’’ Mr Corbell said.

Mr Doszpot wasn’t aware that the official election results were available when he spoke to The Sunday Canberra Times.

‘‘I haven’t been near the computer today, or near my home...I haven’t heard the final news yet. I’ll celebrate when I hear that,’’ he said.

Labor’s Yvette Berry has created history.

The 44-year-old has become the first daughter of an MLA to follow her father into territory politics.

The daughter of the ACT’s longest serving politician, Wayne Berry, became one of six females in the 17-person Legislative Assembly.

The full list of MLAs are:

Brindabella

• Zed Seselja

• Joy Burch

• Brendan Smyth

• Mick Gentleman

• Andrew Wall

Ginninderra

• Alistair Coe

• Vicki Dunne

• Mary Porter

• Chris Bourke

• Yvette Berry

Molonglo

• Katy Gallagher

• Jeremy Hanson

• Andrew Barr

• Simon Corbell

• Shane Rattenbury

• Giulia Jones

• Steve Doszpot