With a swing of postal votes in his favour, LNP incumbent Bert van Manen looks set to retain the seat of Forde.
In what has been one of the closest calls for the LNP in the 2016 election, Mr van Manen has made a neat recovery from the swing against him recorded at polling places on election day.
Postal votes have put Mr van Manen ahead of Labor candidate Des Hardman by less than 1 per cent.
At the time, of going to press Mr van Manen was 917 votes ahead of Mr Hardman on a two-party preferred basis, with just over 600 votes of the received envelopes to be processed, but the Labor candidate had not conceded defeat.
At present, just under 2000 of the 13, 688 postal vote envelopes issued for Forde have not been returned.
Friday is the cut-off for postal votes to be received and counted.
Votes cast at polling places on election day revealed a 4.49 per cent swing against the incumbent.
Mr van Manen put that result down to the “Mediscare text” sent out to voters on the morning of July 2.
“People had raised a number of issues with me, in the lead up to the election, including the M1 and superannuation concerns,” he said.
“But if you look at the outcome of votes cast on polling day, compared to pre-polls and postal votes, it’s apparent that Labor’s disgraceful Mediscare text had a significant impact on how voters voted on election day.
“Labor had run a completely scurrilous campaign which showed complete disregard for not only the electorate but the entire Australian population.”
He declined to comment on whether his narrow victory, which helped the Coalition finish in first position, would place him in the running for a ministerial position.
“Those decisions are up to the prime minister,” he said.
