After two weeks of early voting, election day is almost here in the Northern Territory.

Saturday is the big day, and also the last chance to vote for anyone who hasn’t done so yet.

Since early voting opened on August 12, 67,000 people have cast their votes.

The battle looks set to be tight, with the Labour Party hoping for a third term in government, while the Country Liberal Party (CLP) is aiming to complete its comeback from obscurity in 2016.

Here’s everything you need to know.

Where can I vote?

The polling stations have been open for the past two weeks and are open again today.

If you can’t get to a polling station, more polling stations opened in urban centres across the country on Saturday.

In recent weeks, mobile polling stations have been deployed to remote communities in the area and most bush residents have already voted.

When do the polls open?

On election day, polling stations open at 8:00 am.

From that moment on, you can vote until 6:00 PM, when the official counting begins.

To ensure that your vote counts, you must number all the boxes on the ballot.

When will we know the winner?

The counting of votes from polling stations and mobile polling stations will begin on Saturday at 6 p.m.

The count ends that evening at 11pm.

The results of most constituencies should have been known long before then.

However, there is a chance that, if things get really exciting, we will still not know who has won the government at the end of the evening.

The Northern Territory Electoral Commission plans to begin counting postal votes on Saturday evening.

Any remaining counts will resume and be completed on Sunday.

What else do I need to know?

A party must win 13 seats to secure a majority government in the Northern Territory.

The Labor Party currently holds 14 seats in the Northern Territory’s 25-seat parliament, while the CLP holds seven.

Both major parties have focused their campaigns on crime and have promised to implement a range of community safety measures if elected.

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They have also pledged to provide generous grants for the construction of new homes and increase funding to tackle domestic violence.

For all promises, you can view our election promise tracker here.

An independent Treasury assessment on Thursday found Labor’s promises will cost $238 million, while the CLP’s promises will cost $224 million.

Party leader Eva Lawler said her party’s pledges would be largely funded by future royalties which she said would come from the mainland gas industry.

The CLP plans to pay for the commitments through $185 million in spending cuts and “reprioritization” measures, including $80 million in cuts to fees for interstate consulting firms and defunding the Environmental Defenders Office.

Opposition leader Lia Finocchiaro has refused to go into detail about where the remaining $104 million in savings will come from, saying cuts would be made to “wasteful” projects. However, she promised the CLP would not cut public sector jobs or sell off public assets.

Independents are also running in seats across the region, including four sitting representatives.

They say their hopes have been boosted by growing discontent with both the Labour Party and the CLP.

The Greens are also hoping to win their first ever seat in the territorial parliament and are contesting in a record 11 constituencies.

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