Australia Elections 2025 Result: Early results from the Australian Electoral Commission indicate that the Labor Party was winning 56% of the vote, with the conservative Coalition, comprising the Liberal Party and the National Party, with 44% .
In the 150-member Australian Parliament, 76 seats are needed to form a majority government. 85 seats were captured by Labor party, Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s conservative Liberal-National coalition had just 36 seats, and small parties secured 12 seats. Another 17 seats were still in doubt.
Albanese Clinch Second Term As Australia Prime Minister in 2 decades. On Sunday, Australia’s Labor Party candidate Antony Albanese recorded a landslide election win and clinched the Prime Minister post for the consecutive second time.
This time, across 83 countries with 111 overseas voting locations were facilitated for Australians to cast their vote.
Albanese during a media briefing said
We will be a disciplined, orderly government in our second term,
We’ve been given a great honour of serving the Australian people, and we don’t take it for granted, and we’ll work hard each and every day,
I had a warm and positive conversation with President Trump … and I thank him for his very warm message of congratulations,
We talked about how AUKUS and tariffs will continue to engage, we will engage with each other on a face-to-face basis at some time in the future. And I thank him for reaching out in such a positive way.
Cost-of-living pressures and concerns about Trump’s policies had been among the top issues in the Australian elections 2025. Albanese went for elections promising to embrace renewable energy, cut taxes tackle a worsening housing crisis, and pour money into a creaking healthcare system.
Australia Elections 2025 were based on economic concerns which have dominated the contest for the many Australian households struggling to pay inflated prices for milk, bread, power and petrol.
Leaders around the world congratulated Albanese on his triumph.