2025 Australian Federal Election: Interim Results and Policies
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 Leaders seat of Dickson.
Mr. Albanese becomes the first Prime Minister in over 20 years to secure re-election after having served a full term. He is also the first first-term Prime Minister to increase his share of the vote and seats held in Australian history.
Party Primary Vote
Two Party Preferred
Albanese Ministry
The Government is no longer in caretaker mode with Ministers able to resume their responsibilities.
The ALP Federal Parliamentary Party is expected to meet in the next week or so to elect the Ministry. The Prime Minister will then appoint Ministers to portfolios and also appoint Assistant Ministers.
The Prime Minister confirmed during the election campaign his intention to appoint the following Ministers:
– Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence – the Hon Richard Marles MP
– Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Foreign Affairs – Senator the Hon Penny Wong
– Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Trade and Tourism – Senator the Hon Don Farrell
– Treasurer – the Hon Jim Chalmers MP
– Minister for Finance – Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
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 ABC is currently projecting as follows:
This may change as more votes are counted and preferences redistributed, especially across 16 seats that are too close to be called.
Seats Changing
The following table shows the House of Representatives seats that the ABC projects will be changing parties.
Seats in Doubt
The following table depicts the House of Representatives seats that ABC projects are too close to call.
Senate
There are 76 Senators in the Australian Senate. Six senate seats from each State and two senate seats from each of the Territories, totalling 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.
While the final count is unlikely to be known for a few weeks, at the time of publication, the senate seats which have been confirmed are:
Based on the early count, the ‘in doubt’ Senate seats in the following states are most likely to be a contest between the following.
o NSW – Labor (3) Vs One Nation
o VIC – One Nation Vs Labor (3) or Legalise Cannabis Party
o QLD – There is an outside chance that current People First Senator, Gerad Rennick could replace One Nation
o WA – Labor (3) Vs One Nation
o SA – Labor (3) Vs One Nation
o TAS – 2 seats to be decided between Labor (3) Vs Liberal (2) Vs Jacquie Lambie Network Vs One Nation
The AEC has not formally confirmed final senate results.
Update
This brief is up to date as of 7:00am AEST 05 May 2025. The online version will be updated on a regular basis until the count is finalised.
Further information
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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 |