What's happened after the election? All the answers for you.

It’s the evening of the morning after.

While the result of last night’s election isn’t any closer to being known, it’s still been a huge day as the nation came to terms with what is in store for the 45th Parliament of Australia.

If you’ve been out enjoying your Sunday instead of being glued to the news, let us bring you up to speed.

We could be waiting a month for final results

That’s according to Australian Electoral Commissionhead Phil Diak.

He said:

“The AEC won’t declare seats until there’s a mathematical impossibility of the leader being overtaken, as it were, in any seat. So that’s often a lot later than when victory is claimed or a seat is conceded. But we’ve got those weeks ahead of us.

“We do have a plan for any recount that occurs. As we know, one occurred in 2013 in Fairfax in Queensland. We also, obviously, put a focus on close seats, in terms of the effort that we put in there to work as quickly as possibly, as we can, to provide some clarity there.”

There are 13 seats that will decide the result

These are the ones coming down to the wire:

Malcolm Turnbull is ‘quietly confident’ of a majority

He said there were plenty ofpostal and pre-poll votes still to be counted, and postal votes traditionally favoured the Coalition.

Those votes will determine the result in as many as 12 undecided seats, according to the PM.

Bill Shorten urged everyone to be patient

The Opposition Leader said he had spoken to some crossbenchers, but urged patience while the AEC finished counting the votes.

In a relaxed press conference (he wasn’t wearing a tie), Mr Shorten had this observation on last night’s results:

“What I’m very sure of is that while we don’t know who the winner was, there is clearly one loser —Malcolm Turnbull’sagenda for Australia.”

So, what about those crossbenchers?

Unsurprisingly, they hadplenty to say today.

Here’s the roundup:

There was talk about party leadership

Plenty of Coalition MPs were asked if the result of the electionwould have been different under former prime minister Tony Abbott.

Mr Abbott was tracked down by reporters outside his Sydney home and had this to say:

“Obviously a difficult night for the Government, a difficult night for the Liberal party and I fear a difficult night for our country.

“The result obviously won’t be known for some days in the Lower House and probably for the best part of a month in the Senate.”

The Prime Minister refused to answer questions about Mr Abbott, instead he said he was focusing on “monitoring the count”.

The Opposition Leaderwas repeatedly pressed by journalists on whether he would face a challenge fromAnthony Albanese.

He said Labor was united.

You’re up to date!

But youdon’t want to missthis video from the ABC’s Huw Parkinson:

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