LEADER of the shambolic No Land Tax micro party Peter Jones — who has described himself as an “off-the-wall nutcase” — is on course to win an eight-year spell in NSW’s Parliament.

The No Land Tax Party, which ran a topless model and salsa dancer among its state election candidates and still owes staff about $1 million for work on polling day, is ahead of the Liberal Party in the race for the final seat in the Legislative Council.

However, Mr Jones’ predicted ascension to the upper house is unlikely to prove a significant hurdle to Premier Mike Baird’s key election policy on the sale of the state’s poles and wires, given he yesterday indicated conditional support for the $20 billion sell-off funding NSW’s infrastructure plan.

Twenty-one upper house seats were available at the March 28 election and 20 ­appear settled, with the Coalition on track to win nine, Labor seven, the Greens two and the Shooters and Fishers and Christian Democrats one each. The final results should be declared on Friday and ABC election analyst Antony Green said last night he was “confident” No Land Tax will take the 21st seat.

It should unlock hundreds of thousands of dollars in public election funding for the party and set the scene for a potentially chaotic spell in parliament. Upper house terms last eight years.

“I haven’t been following it,” Mr Jones said yesterday when asked if he expected to enter parliament.

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His party, which secured the Group A spot on the Legislative Council ballot, has about 80,000 upper house votes with 70 per cent of the vote counted. That represents about 2 per cent of the overall vote. That would put No Land Tax on course to receive up to $240,000 in funding, assuming Mr Jones gets in.

In recent comments to The Daily Telegraph, Mr Jones said: “I’m not just your run of the mill psycho, I’m a complete off-the-wall nutcase.” He made a string of other bizarre comments ­during the election.

After issues were raised with the online voting system, Mr Jones claimed that only a judge “on the take” or on “crystal meth” would not overturn the election results.

No Land Tax also appeared to be on the verge of imploding the day before the election after Gus Macri, the No. 3 on the party’s ticket, branded Mr Jones an “embarrassment”.

Mr Jones was taking a straight line yesterday, saying his party would take its role in parliament seriously, focusing on its key aims of abolishing land tax, possibly through a proposed increase in the GST. He also said he would support the poles and wires sale if the government could get a good price.

“We’ve run a better-organised campaign than the Liberal Party. Our campaign has been on the rails compared to theirs,” Mr Jones added.

The party still owes money to a large number of the 3600 people to whom it offered $30 an hour to hand out how to vote cards on election day. The Fair Work Ombudsman is conducting inquiries.

If No Land Tax does win a seat it would leave the ­Coalition with 20 of 42 upper house seats.

Even without Mr Jones’ support that would still be enough for the government to negotiate its $20 billion electricity network lease through the Legislative Council with support of the Christian Democratic Party.