Both of Australia's major political parties are playing down the influence of minor parties as the election campaign enters its final day.
Government frontbencher Christopher Pyne, whose Adelaide seat was thought to be under threat from independent Nick Xenophon, says what people say in polls and how they vote are often different.
"I am not sure necessarily that the minor parties and the independents will do as well as the polls are indicating," he told Nine Network this morning.
Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese agrees, saying voters are often just sending a message through the polls.
"It doesn't mean that is the way they vote," he said.
"I think when people get in the poll booth they know they can have Bill Shorten or Malcolm Turnbull tomorrow night as Prime Minister."
However, he did concede a predicted 25% minor party vote made tomorrow's election both exciting and unpredictable.
Meanwhile, two new polls released today show the contest between the coalition and Labor is still tight, but Turnbull is tipped to emerge the victor.
The Fairfax-Ipsos poll of 1377 voters taken at the beginning of this week, shows an even split on a two-party preferred basis.
However, when asked specifically which party would receive their second preference, voters gave Labor a 51-49% lead.
Turnbull remains the preferred choice for prime minister, leading Opposition Leader Bill Shorten 49 to 35%
The poll also shows 27% of voters still intend to back the Greens or minor parties and independents.
It was a different story in the third Galaxy Research poll of the election campaign.
The poll in News Corp Australia newspapers today has the coalition ahead of Labor 51-49 on a two-party preferred basis - the first time this poll has had the Turnbull team ahead.
Its survey of 1768 voters shows the swing against the government has been limited to 2.5%.
Labor needs a swing of 4% to have a chance of picking up the 21 seats it needs to win the election.
The coalition has increased its primary vote to 43%, the highest it's been since Mr Turnbull took over the leadership last September.
But Labor's primary vote has stagnated at 36% - the level it was at at the start of the campaign.
"The Labor Party has improved on their disastrous performance in 2013 but the increase of almost three percentage points to 36 per cent is insufficient to pose a serious threat to the government," Galaxy chief executive David Briggs told News Corp.
Unlike the Ipsos poll, the Galaxy shows no real increase in the number of people considering supporting minor parties.
