Australian Federal election 2025 live updates: Anthony Albanese wins landslide, hails ‘profound opportunity’

Thank you for joining us for our coverage of the 2025 Federal election results, and the landslide Labor re-election.

You can scroll through the live blog to see how the day played out across Australia.

Join us tomorrow for all the latest in the seats not yet counted, and the fallout from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s historic second term.

Good night.

WA Liberal leader Basil Zempilas said tonight “the Liberal brand needs every aspect of it closely examined.”

“It (Liberal brand) is not resonating,” Mr Zempilas said.

“And not enough people are connecting with the Liberal Party brand for us to form government nationally, and in our case, Western Australia.”

Mr Zempilas spoke to The Sunday Times’ at Tom White’s Curtin event.

Labor will win the seat of Moore from the Liberals, electing Tom French, who defeated former Liberal MP Vince Connelly.

Bullwinkel is set to go down to the wire, with Labor’s Trish Cook narrowly ahead of Matt Moran, with the Government leading on prepoll figures.

But the news is not all positive for Labor, with sitting Fremantle MP Josh Wilson under threat from independent Kate Hulett, and facing a tight race to hang onto the portside seat.

With counting wrapping up for the evening across the country, let’s take a look at the seats where the result is not yet known.

In Melbourne, Greens leader Adam Bandt was facing a tight challenge from Labor in his own seat, after it was hit with losses in Brisbane.

Labor’s David Smith has been under threat all night in Canberra’s seat of Bean from a Teal independent, and was facing an uphill battle to win preferences from other parties.

Labor is also narrowly leading in the Victorian seat of Wills, up against the Greens’ Sam Ratnam, as well as the NSW seat of Richmond.

Labor’s landslide election result came off the back of a sweeping result through Queensland, which once proved difficult hunting ground for the Government.

The Government looks to have picked up as many as seven seats in the sunshine state, including Peter Dutton’s own seat of Dickson, with the Opposition Leader baten by Labor’s Ali France.

The Government also won two seats held by the Greens after 2022, with Renee Coffey unseating Max Chandler-Mather in Griffith, and Labor winning back Brisbane.

Labor also won Bonner, Forde, Leichhardt and Petrie, and is also currently ahead in Bowman and Longman as counting continues.

Labor candidate Ali France knocked Peter Dutton from his seat as the member for Dickson.

“I feel incredibly grateful and proud of all of the people who have campaigned in this seat for such a long time,” she told Sky News.

“It’s been seven years of really hard work.

“I thank the people of Dickson whether you voted for me or not, or whether you voted Labor for the first time, I’m actually so grateful.”

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has credited Peter Dutton for his gruelling campaign and more than two decades in Parliament.

Speaking at Mr Dutton’s election night event in Brisbane, Mr Abbott said the Liberal party can be a party of government.

“To reassure people who voted Liberal today and people who usually vote for Coalition, not to lose hope,” he said.

In response to Dutton’s speech Liberal senator Sarah Henderson said he was a great loss to the party.

“It was very dignified and it just goes to show what a great man he is,” she said.

“He bought us together after a pretty gruelling loss in 2022.

“In terms of the unity he built I don’t think we have had a more unified party than the last couple of years.

“So this is a great shock to have lost Peter.”

Liberal Curtin candidate Tom White is refusing to concede in a speech to supporters.

Addressing the Liberal Party faithful at 8.40pm, he said there was still too many votes to be counted.

“The path to victory may be difficult,” he said.

“There are tens of thousands of votes still to be counted.

“There are 10,000 postal votes to be counted.

“And we are not seeing swings in Curtin that we are seeing elsewhere.

“We won’t be calling this election any time soon: at least not on these current numbers.”

Although the seat of Curtin has not yet been called, Independent MP Kate Chaney is feeling confident.

“We’re not calling it yet, but I’m so proud of the campaign that we’ve run and the incredible volunteer energy that has driven this community movement.,” she told Sky News.

“No matter what the government looks like, I will do what I’ve done for the last three years, and that is assess every piece of legislation and act in accordance with the values of Curtin.”

The Liberals night of woe has hit WA, with the party going backwards in all Labor held seats.

In Bullwinkel, Labor’s Trish Cook and Liberal Matt Moran are in a tight race for Australia’s newest electorate, and the result will likely not be known tonight. Former Nationals leader Mia Davies came in third with 15.9 per cent of the vote. The split of her preferences will likely be decisive.

While Andrew Hastie was set to keep Canning, the party’s sole metropolitan seat - Moore - was set to fall to Labor’s Tom French.

The Liberals were also set to fail in their bid to take back the blue-ribbon seat of Curtin, with Kate Chaney set to be re-elected.

Despite a well-funded Teal challenge in Forrest, Liberal Ben Small looks set to hold the seat, but with a narrow lead.