Turnout: 90.70%
About this election
The 2025 Australian federal election was held on Saturday 3 May 2025 to elect all 150 members of the House of Representatives (reduced from 151 by a redistribution) and 40 of the 76 senators. Against widespread expectations of a tight contest or even a hung parliament, Anthony Albanese's Labor government was re-elected in a landslide, winning its largest-ever seat total. The Coalition, led by Peter Dutton, suffered a catastrophic defeat in which Dutton became the first opposition leader in Australian history to lose his own seat, and Labor became the first government in over twenty years to increase its majority at a second election.
The House is elected by compulsory, full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member electorates; after the 2024–25 redistribution the chamber returned to 150 seats (New South Wales and Victoria each lost a seat and Western Australia gained one), with 76 needed for a majority. The two-party-preferred vote remained the headline measure. The simultaneous half-Senate election is covered on the companion Senate page.
The campaign was dominated by cost-of-living pressures — inflation, interest rates, rents and energy prices — alongside housing, health and Medicare, and the future of energy policy, where the Coalition's proposal to build government-owned nuclear power stations drew sustained scrutiny. International events loomed large: the return of Donald Trump to the US presidency and the resulting trade and tariff turmoil reshaped the final weeks, and Dutton's combative style and some of his policy positions were repeatedly linked by opponents to the global populist right, which appeared to cost the Coalition support among moderate and female voters.
Labor won 94 seats to the Coalition's 43 — a result far beyond what either side had anticipated. The Greens were reduced to a single House seat (losing their three Brisbane gains, though retaining strength in the Senate), while independents again won ten seats, the teal bloc largely holding firm. On first preferences Labor led with 34.56% to the Coalition's 31.82% and the Greens' 12.20%, and the two-party-preferred result was a commanding 55.22% to 44.78% — the Coalition's worst result in decades. Dutton lost the Brisbane-area seat of Dickson he had held since 2001, and resigned as leader on election night.
Labor won the most seats in every state and territory except Queensland, where the Coalition narrowly held a plurality (16 seats). Western Australia again swung strongly to Labor, and the party made gains across the suburbs of every mainland capital. The map above shows the party that won the most seats in each state and territory — a near-uniform Labor result that underlines the scale of the win.
Albanese's second-term majority gave Labor unusually free rein to pursue its agenda, while the Coalition was plunged into a leadership contest and a fresh round of soul-searching about how to rebuild in the cities. The 2025 result confirmed a longer-term trend: the steady erosion of the Coalition's hold on metropolitan Australia and the entrenchment of a large, varied crossbench as a permanent feature of national politics.
Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) — official tally room results at results.aec.gov.au.
Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.