Australian 2025 Election Result

Labor has retained government in the 2025 federal election, with Anthony Albanese securing a second term as Prime Minister. But what does the data reveal about how Australians voted? In this analysis, we dig into the results to identify patterns across electorates. Explore the interactive map below to see which party won each seat — select a state from the dropdown to focus on the region that interests you.

Labor's landslide victory is starkly evident in the seat distribution. With 98 seats, the ALP holds a comfortable majority well beyond the 75 needed to govern. The combined Coalition forces — LNP (15), Liberal Party (11) and Nationals (9) — managed only 35 seats, representing a historically weak result for the centre-right. Notably, Independents secured 14 seats, continuing the trend of voters turning away from major parties in favour of local, issue-focused candidates. The Greens, despite their prominence in public discourse, won just one seat, suggesting their support remains geographically concentrated.

How Preferential Voting Shaped the Result

I have been in Australia since 2007. When I immigrated, however I have never fully understood how the preferential voting system works here. In Australia's preferential voting system, voters rank candidates in order of preference rather than simply choosing one. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first preferences, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their votes are redistributed to each ballot's next preferred candidate. This process continues until one candidate achieves a majority. The system means that even if your first choice is unlikely to win, your vote still influences the outcome through your lower preferences. It also tends to favour major parties that are the 'least disliked' second option—which explains why the ALP, positioned closer to the political centre-left, often benefits from Greens preferences, while the Coalition, positioned on the centre-right, has fewer natural preference partners.

In the last House of Representatives election in 2025, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) received the most first preferences in 86 electorates. It lost only 5 of those. That means in 17 electorates where the ALP wasn't people's first preference, it went on to win because preferential voting worked in its favour—especially preferences flowing from the Australian Greens and other parties that are philosophically more aligned with it. In contrast, the Coalition-comprising the Liberal Party, the Nationals, the Liberal National Party (Queensland), and the Country Liberal Party (NT) - received the highest first preference count in 56 electorates. However, it could only hold 33 of them, as preferential voting worked against it. That's an astounding 41 percent of its leading positions lost to vote transfers.

Seats Won by Party

The chart below shows the final seat count for each party and independent grouping, ordered from most to fewest seats won.