The latest count from the Northern Territory Electoral Commission confirms Labor will hold at least 13 seats in the 25-member assembly.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner said he did not see victory “as a reward, but as a renewal of our responsibilities to Territorians”.

“In backing Labor, you chose the future over the past. You chose stability and certainty. You chose strong and secure borders. You chose jobs, not cuts,” he said in a statement posted on Facebook.

“I know that your support, your faith, comes with a simple instruction to my team: just keep working. And we will.”

CLP leader Lia Finocchiaro said in a statement it was now clear Labor had enough seats for form government.

“I called Michael Gunner a short time ago to congratulate him and the Labor Party on winning the election, and urged him to move immediately to take real action on the economy,” she said.

“The rhetoric from the Gunner Government about ‘saving jobs and savings lives’ needs to stop and tangible action must be taken without delay.”

The most recent figures from the Northern Territory Electoral Commission show Labor ahead in 16 seats, with the CLP leading in six, independents in two and the Territory Alliance in one.

A formal declaration of the poll is scheduled for September 7, as postal votes continue to be returned.

Alliance leader Terry Mills was the biggest casualty of election night, losing his seat of Blain.

-AAP