2025 Australian Federal Election: Final Election Outcome
The 2025 Australian Federal Election was held on 3 May.
The Australian Labor Party, under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, secured re-election with an increased majority. The Liberal National Party Opposition led by Peter Dutton MP has lost a significant number of seats, including the Opposition Leader’s seat of Dickson.
Mr. Albanese is the first Prime Minister in more than two decades to win re-election after completing a full term. He also makes history by becoming the first Prime Minister to complete a first term and go on to increase both the party’s vote share and number of seats.
The next Australian federal election must be held by one of the following dates: 18 March, 2028 if both the House of Representatives and the full Senate are contested; 20 May 2028 for a standard election of the House and half the Senate; or 23 September 2028 if only the House of Representatives is up for election. This election will determine the Members and Senators of the 49th Parliament.
Party Primary Vote
Two Party Preferred
Albanese Ministry
Prime Minister Albanese announced the final portfolio allocations on Monday 12 May 2025, with the new Ministry sworn in on Tuesday 13 May 2025.
There were four vacancies in the Ministry. The Hon. Bill Shorten MP, and the Hon. Stephen Jones MP retired prior to the election. The Hon. Ed Husic MP and the Hon. Mark Dreyfus QC MP were not returned to the Ministry.
The four new Ministers are:
• Senator the Hon. Tim Ayres, Senator for NSW, formerly Assistant Minister for Trade and a Future Made in Australia
• The Hon. Dr Daniel Mulino MP, Member for Fraser (VIC)
• The Hon. Sam Rae MP, Member for Hawke (VIC)
• Senator the Hon. Jess Walsh, Senator for Victoria
The Prime Minister also appointed 12 Assistant Ministers. The new Assistant Ministers are:
• The Hon. Julian Hill MP
• The Hon. Rebecca White MP
• The Hon. Dr Andrew Charlton MP
• Senator the Hon. Nita Green
• The Hon. Peter Khalil MP
The Prime Minister also appointed 7 special envoys.
The Administrative Arrangements Order was published on 13 May 2025, it is available here.
Our Hawker Britton Second Term Ministry is available here.
House of Representatives
There are 150 seats in the lower house (House of Representatives) and a party requires 76 seats to govern in their own right.
The Parliament is as follows:
Seats Changing
The following table shows the House of Representatives seats that the will be changing parties.
Seats in Doubt
Most seats have now been formally called and declared, with the final seat in doubt being the NSW seat of Bradfield, contested by Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian and Independent candidate Nicolette Boele. A full recount has been conducted by the AEC given the very-slim margin, with Boele wining by 26 votes.
There is a period of up to 45 days for a result to be challenged in the Court of Disputed Returns.
Senate
There are 76 Senators in the Australian Senate. Six senate seats from each state and two senate seats from each of the territories, totaling 40 senate seats, are elected at each election.
Senators from the states are elected for a term of 6 years. Senators from the territories are elected for a term of 3 years.
The Senate count has now officially concluded, with final results posted.
In the 2025 the Coalition has lost five seats. Labor won three seats in Queensland, South Australia and Victoria. One Nation gained two seats in NSW and Western Australia.
Senate Election Change
In South Australia, the Liberals lost a seat to Labor’s Charlotte Walker. Walker will be the youngest Senator in history having turned 21 on election night.
In Western Australia, the Liberals lost the seat of retiring Senator Linda Reynolds to One Nation’s Tyron Whitten, narrowly beating out Labor’s third candidate.
In Victoria, the Liberals have lost their third seat, held by expelled Senator, David Van, with former Labor MP for Higgins, Michelle Ananda-Rajah MP winning the final senate position.
In New South Wales, One Nation’s Warwick Stacey has secured the seat of previously held by former Nationals Deputy Leader, Senator Perin Davey.
To see the current state of the 48th Parliament of Australia, please see here.
Update
This brief is up to date as of 12:00pm AEST 05 June 2025.
Further information
For more information, please contact your Hawker Britton Managing Director, Simon Banks, at [email protected].
Election Commitments
| Economic Reform |
| $1,000 tax deduction on their annual returns without having to produce receipts or paperwork |
| In addition to the Stage 3 tax cuts, Labor has promised to provide a further tax cut, the average tax cut is expected to be around $43 per week or more than $2,200 in 2026-27, and around $50 per week or more than $2,500 in 2027-28. |
| Labor also supports an additional tax on unrealised gains on superannuation balances over $3 million |
| Labor will provide $2 billion to production credits for aluminum smelters which only use renewable energy in their production process |
| Labor will enact laws to make it illegal for supermarkets to price gouge customers, and establish a taskforce to set a standard for measuring “excessive pricing”, which will then be policed by the competition watchdog |
| Labor will develop a $3 million education program to help suppliers negotiate better deals with the supermarket giants |
| Labor has committed to legislate protection to weekend penalty rates. |
| Labor will support new Australian businesses by reducing the tax on their first $200,000 of taxable income through the Entrepreneurship Accelerator |
| Housing |
| $33 Billion housing plan to build 1.2 million homes in 5 years |
| Labor will give all first home buyers access to 5% deposits and not pay Lenders Mortgage Insurance. |
| Labor will invest $10 billion to build up to 100,000 homes for sale only to first home buyers |
| Labor will match the LNP’s promise to ban foreign investors and temporary residents from purchasing existing homes for two years |
| Climate Change & Energy |
| Labor has promised to extend rebates by $150 per household |
| Labor will transition Australia to an all-renewables energy grid, supported by gas, by 2050. Labor estimates the plan will cost about $122 billion. This will work to 82 per cent of Australia’s electricity to come from renewable sources – solar, wind, hydro – by 2030. |
| Committed to Net Zero by 2025 and a legally binding target to cut emissions by 43% by 2030. |
| Labor has committed to setting up the Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve |
| Defence |
| Labor will look to regain the Port of Darwin by looking for a private buyer, particularly through superannuation funds, to end the $506 million contract with Landbridge to operate the strategic facility in Australia’s north. |
| Labor will increase Defence spending from 2 per cent of gross domestic product to 2.3 per cent by the early 2030s |
| Education & Childcare |
| Labor has promised a once-off wipe of student’s debt by 20% |
| Labor will ensure student loan repayments would not begin until people are earning at least $67,000, and the rate at which they must repay would be more closely tied to how much above that amount they are earning |
| Labor will double incentive payments to people who complete an apprenticeship related to housing construction to $10,000 |
| Labor will establish a $1 billion fund to build and expand around 160 childcare centres over four years |
| Labor will abolish the activity test (requiring that parents must work or study to receive subsidies) for childcare. This will give all families earning under $533,280 access to three days of subsidised childcare. |
| Labor says it will fund 100,000 fee-free TAFE spots each year |
| Labor will fast track the qualification of 6000 tradies with a $78 million investment. |
| Health |
| Labor will commit $8.5 billion more into Medicare to have nine out of 10 GP visits bulk-billed by the end of the decade |
| Labor will match a $400 million Coalition GP training plan |
| Labor will also expand the urgent care clinic network by opening 50 new centres by mid-2026 with $644 million boost |
| Labor commits $573 million to women’s health, including a boost to Medicare rebates for long-acting contraceptives such as IUDs. |
| Labor will also back a Medicare rebate to create menopause health assessments as well as funding to train health professionals on the topic |
| Labor will expand the network of endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics operating around the country from 22 to 33 |
| Labor will slash the price of PBS-listed medicines from $31.60 to $25 |
| Labor will commit $46 million over four years to establish an ongoing digital mental health service it committed to earlier in its term |
| Labor will spend $1 billion on clinics where people can get free psychologist or psychiatrist visits |
| Industrial Relations |
| Labor will ban non-compete clauses which restrict workers from moving to a competing employer, or from starting a competing business. The ban will apply to workers earning less than $175,000, and similar ‘no poach’ agreements that block staff from being hired by competitors will also be banned. |
| Other |
| Labor will deliver a $3 billion equity injection into the NBN to deliver access to higher internet speeds for around 622,000 additional premises by the end of the decade |
| Labor would compel social media companies to strike commercial deals with news organisations to support journalism. |
| Labor has committed to $157 million over two years to crack down on the trade of illicit tobacco |