Antony Green has called the election: Malcolm Turnbull will remain Prime Minister.

This morning Christopher Pyne called the federal election in favour of his side, declaring the Coalition “an election-winning machine”.

“We’ve won the election,” he told Today co-host Ben Fordham. “We’ve got 74 seats in the bank, and very likely to win Herbert, Capricornia and Flynn, we’re even an outside chance still in Hindmarsh and Cowan, so we will form a majority government.”

At this point only 73 seats have officially been called in favour of the LNP and 66 for Labor – 6 seats are still in play.

Pyne did get one thing right though, Malcolm Turnbull remaining as Prime Minister is as much of a certainty as there is right now, but it’s too early to claim a majority.

The ABC’s election analyst Antony Green confirmed as much to Fran Kelly this morning on Radio National.

“Malcolm Turnbull will continue as prime minister, that’s not in question at all,” the Guardian reported Green as saying.

“Malcolm Turnbull is the prime minister, will continue as prime minister so in that sense they’ve won, it’s just a question of whether they will have a majority or not.”

We wanted to be sure, so we asked him ourselves.

Well, there you go.

Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek rubbished Pyne’s assertion, stressing the election isn’t called until the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) officially calls it.

She also said her party would likely have “more than half of the two party preferred vote”.

“Well, you can’t fault Christopher [Pyne] for front, can you. He’s certainly got that in spades,” she told Chris Uhlmann on ABC radio this morning.

“If you were a betting person you’d have to say it’s more likely that the Turnbull government as a, probably, a minority government – a very unstable minority government – will be returned.”

Ok. Glad we cleared that up.

Now, to more important questions…