In a campaign that has lacked substance, some of those voters may still be wondering which way to go.

This is not a campaign in which we have been able to see the best of the party leaders. As is often the case in politics these days, the lines are scripted, the policies spun and very little is done "off the cuff".

Such campaigns make it very hard for voters to get a true indication of what a party stands for.

For that, we are forced to look at their record rather than their policies, which are often presented without substance and changed at a whim to please "the mood".

This election campaign has done little to convince swinging voters to go one way or the other. With few exceptions, there has been very little to differentiate between the policies of the major parties.

More often than not, policy announcements have tended to pander to the aforementioned mood of the electorate.

It's been a far more reactive campaign than it has been a proactive one.

The line that has traditionally separated left and right has become blurred in recent years, even more so during this campaign, as each party seeks to please.

Locally, sitting member Catherine King has a comfortable margin of 8.2 per cent.

It is unlikely that the Liberal Party and its candidate Mark Banwell can make that up.

What will be interesting in Ballarat - and across the country - is how the Greens poll.

Candidate Belinda Coates has been campaigning actively, and the lack of action from the major parties on climate change could well see her increase the vote she got last time, perhaps even into a double-figure percentage.

There is genuine frustration in the community that the major parties are not taking climate change seriously enough.

Just how deep that frustration is will be better known next week when the final results are in.