Teal independent Zoe Daniel is banking on a batch of postal votes from Nairobi to help get her over the line in Goldstein as she claws her way back.

On Friday, there were only 258 ballots separating Daniel from her Liberal rival Tim Wilson.

A final batch of overseas ballots was due to land on Friday before the midnight cutoff for postal votes to be accepted by the Australian Electoral Commission.

“I have every finger crossed that a batch of international postal votes lands in the next two days among a few other things that need to go our way,” she wrote on Wednesday.

“No matter what, as always I am so buoyed by the love, support and ferocious determination that has been sent my way over the last week and a half.

“To my volunteers who have been hanging over every, single, vote, no matter what happens, you will forever be my people. Thank you.”

Wilson claimed victory last week when counting showed he had a lead of 1500 votes in the Melbourne electorate.

He flirted with the idea of becoming Liberal leader, but now faces possible defeat.

Daniel chose not to concede last week, saying at the time that there were still 10,000 ballots to count, including postal, absentee and pre-poll declaration votes.

The ABC’s election analyst Antony Green said there were only 500 votes left to tally.

That meant Daniel would need 75 per cent of the outstanding votes to win the seat again.

Meanwhile, the election result for the Sydney seat of Bradfield may go down to the last ballot, with just 43 votes separating the Liberal and independent candidates.

The final outcome in a Sydney electorate will hinge on the final batch of postal votes as the contest goes down to the wire.

Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian’s lead in the federal electorate of Bradfield over independent challenger Nicolette Boele has been reduced to 43 votes.

There are 314 absentee, declaration pre-poll and postal votes left to be processed for the seat.

Kapterian had been called as the winner for the seat on Monday by some media outlets, but the electorate’s result was placed back in doubt after a strong surge of postal and absentee votes towards Ms Boele.

An automatic recount will be carried out by the Australian Electoral Commission if the final outcome is decided by fewer than 100 votes.

It comes as the Victorian seat of Flinders has been called for Liberal Zoe McKenzie, while the Coalition was also declared the winner for the Queensland seat of Longman, after a close contest with Labor’s Rhiannyn Douglas.

Along with Bradfield, the only seat remaining in doubt is the Melbourne-based seat of Calwell, but the complexity of the count meant it could still be some time before the top two candidates in the electorate are known.

As of Thursday afternoon, Labor sit on 93 seats, with the Coalition on 43, the Greens on one, with independents and minor parties taking 11.

-with AAP