Australian federal election result in 2025 are here. Labor will form a majority government after recording strong swings in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and South Australia and a small swing in Victoria.
The ABC has called 86 seats for Labor, but it is leading in several more, and ABC election analyst Antony Green has said it could end the count with a “thumping” majority.
It will make Anthony Albanese the first prime minister elected twice since John Howard.
Albanese pledges to repay voter trust
An emotional Anthony Albanese took to the stage at Labor’s election night function in Sydney to thank voters.
“Serving as your prime minister is the greatest honour of my life,” Mr Albanese said in his victory speech in Sydney.
“And it is with a deep sense of humility and a profound sense of responsibility that the first thing that I do tonight is to say thank you to the people of Australia for the chance to continue to serve the best nation on earth.”
The PM said he had spoken to Peter Dutton and thanked him for “his generous words at the end of what has been a very hard-fought campaign…
“I make this solemn pledge. We will not forget… we will never take it for granted. Repaying your trust will drive our government each and every day of the next three years…
“We take out this task with new hope, new confidence and new determination. Together we are turning a corner and together we will make our way forward.”
Dutton concedes australian federal election 2025 and loss in own seat
“We didn’t do well enough in this campaign, that much is obvious tonight,” Mr Dutton said to the Liberal faithful gathered in Brisbane, saying he had called both Anthony Albanese and Labor’s Dickson candidate Ali France to concede and congratulate them.
“It is an historic occasion for the Labor Party and we recognise that. I congratulated the prime minister and wished him, Jodie and Nathan all the very best and I said to the prime minister that his mother would be incredibly proud of his achievement tonight and he should be proud of what he has achieved,” he said.
He also paid tribute to Ms France’s son Henry, who died earlier this year. “Her son Henry would be incredibly proud of her tonight and she will do a good job as a local member for Dickson and I wish her all the best.”
Mr Dutton apologised to Liberal candidates who have “lost their seats [and] their ambition… We have an amazing party, and we will rebuild.”
Labor on track for multiple gains
The majority of australian federal election 2025 day votes have been counted, while early votes are beginning to be counted, as are the first votes in Western Australia where polls were last to close.
The ABC projects Labor will gain the seats of Banks, Bass, Bonner, Braddon, Deakin, Peter Dutton’s seat of Dickson, Hughes, Leichhardt, Moore, Menzies, Petrie, and Sturt.
It is also competitive in the seats of Berowra, Bowman, Casey and Forde, and La Trobe.
And it has consolidated or held its ground at this stage in several of its own marginal seats, including Aston, Bennelong, Blair, Boothby, Chisholm, Dunkley, Gilmore, Lyons, McEwen, Paterson and Werriwa.
Peter Dutton likely needed to win all of those seats and more if he was to form majority government himself, which would have required a 20-seat gain. He would have needed to pick up roughly 10 seats to be competitive in a hung parliament scenario.
Instead, he will find himself out of the parliament altogether, forcing the Liberal Party to find a new leader. Two other frontbenchers, housing spokesperson Michael Sukkar and foreign affairs spokesperson David Coleman, are set to join him.
Swings across the country
“Labor is everywhere outperforming what the opinion polls were saying,” he said. It would have to be a huge swing, a massively better result for the Coalition with the pre-poll vote… We are seeing this all across the country at the moment.”
Current figures show a 4.2 per cent swing towards Labor in the two-party preferred vote nationwide, compared to results at the same polling booths at the last australian federal election 2025.
There is an 8.6 per cent swing in Tasmania, a 5.4 per cent swing in South Australia, a 4.2 per cent swing in New South Wales, a 3.4 per cent swing in Queensland, a 2.8 per cent swing in Victoria, and a 1 per cent swing in Western Australia.
Nationally, Labor has gained 2.3 percentage points on its primary vote, while the Coalition has fallen 4.5 percentage points and minor parties and independents have gained ground.
There are very few swings to the Coalition at this stage in seats anywhere, but an exception is the Darwin-based seat of Solomon, while there are also small swings in Eden-Monaro, Bendigo, Whitlam and Bullwinkel, but not enough for Labor to be behind in any of those seats except Bullwinkel, on early results.
Labor has held its ground in Melbourne’s west, a heavy campaign focus for Peter Dutton.
And early results point to a few modest swings in Western Australia off a high base for Labor in that state, including in Pearce and the Liberal-held seats of Canning, Durack and O’Connor.
Jubilation for Labor ‘win for the ages’
Foreign Minister Penny Wong, who introduced Anthony Albanese’s victory speech, vowed to “write this next chapter so all Australians are part of our nation’s story.”
“Thank you for believing in Labor. Thank you for believing in the power of this great nation… We love this country,” Senator Wong said.
“Some might want to mimic the worst of other countries,” she said, a reference to Labor’s charge that Peter Dutton sought to copy US President Donald Trump. “Albo always backs what’s best about our country.”
Treasurer Jim Chalmers told the ABC the victory was “a win from the ages, if it happens as we’re expecting, given where Labor was six months ago, given what the expectations were for tonight, given what the expectations were before the budget, and so he has every right to feel proud…
“He has pulled off one of the great political victories since Federation, that is what we are seeing tonight.”
Eyes turn to Liberal leadership
The frontrunners for the Liberal leadership include Angus Taylor, Andrew Hastie, Sussan Ley and Dan Tehan, if he holds his seat of Wannon.
Mr Tehan told the ABC’s election night coverage he had “not had any time to think about the future… What we need is a proper review. A proper review of all the policies, a proper review of how we campaigned, and we have to do that over a period of time.”
Jim Chalmers said his opposition shadow Mr Taylor “shouldn’t escape the blame” for the result.
“I think Angus Taylor has been one of the biggest reasons why we have outperformed expectations… I know you all think, ‘you would say that’, but objectively… it is hard to think of a worse performer at an election campaign than Angus.”
Senator Dave Sharma said the Liberal Party had not done enough to appeal to voters in cities. “A number of metropolitan members… knew that we needed to do more,” he told Ten News. “We won’t be a party of government unless we can also win seats in those areas.”
Third-party candidates in tight fights during australian federal election 2025
The independent candidate for the seat of Bradfield, Nicolette Boele, is ahead against Liberal Gisele Kapterian, although the race remains close.
But Liberal frontbencher Dan Tehan has picked up a very small swing against independent Alex Dyson in Wannon and is ahead, while independent Caz Heise is trailing the Nationals in the seat of Cowper where she was favoured.
There are also strong results for independents challenging Coalition MPs in the seats of Flinders, Fisher, Forrest and McPherson, but it is too early to know whether these seats are in play, and in the latter three the independents are vying with Labor to make it to the final two with the independent chances remote for now.
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Independent Jessie Price has picked up a strong swing in the Labor-held seat of Bean in Canberra’s south, and is in a competitive position.
Independent Peter George has polled well in the Labor-held seat of Franklin, but looks unlikely to win. A third Labor-challenging independent, Kate Hulett, appears competitive on early results in Fremantle.
The Nationals vote has fallen sharply in the seat of Calare, where independent Andrew Gee appears competitive, while another independent, Kate Hook, also has a sizeable primary vote.
The seats won by teal independents at the 2022 election so far appear to have mostly recorded modest swings to those independents, including Sophie Scamps in Mackellar, Monique Ryan in Kooyong, Allegra Spender in Goldstein, and Kate Chaney in Curtin.
The exception is Goldstein, where there has been a small swing towards Liberal Tim Wilson, but Zoe Daniel remains ahead.
Conclusions so far for australian federal elections 2025
A swing away from the Greens on primary votes in the Queensland trio of Brisbane, Griffith and Ryan plus a boost to Labor’s primary in all three seats has the Greens on the back foot, projected to lose Max Chandler-Mather’s seat of Griffith and Stephen Bates’ seat of Brisbane at this stage.
The seat of Ryan and Adam Bandt’s seat of Melbourne are too close to call, with Labor currently ahead in Melbourne on the ABC’s projections but the margin tight.
There has been a small swing to the Greens in the inner Melbourne seat of Wills, but Labor remains ahead there. The seat of Richmond in the NSW northern rivers is a tight three-corner contest involving Labor, the Greens and the Nationals.
