Senator Steve Fielding could yet be returned to Parliament.

For all the delay and confusion about the make-up of the lower house, the election result for the Senate is mostly straightforward, with results tallied in almost all states.

In Victoria, however, one position remains up for grabs, and it has come down to a three-cornered contest between the Family First senator and candidates for the Liberals and the Democratic Labor Party.

With almost 80 per cent of the Victorian Senate vote counted, the DLP candidate, John Madigan, holds the spot and the political obituaries for Senator Fielding have already started.