2022 Australian federal election

2022 Australian federal election

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All 151 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 (of the 76) seats in the Senate 76 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	17,228,900 4.90%
Turnout	89.82% ( 2.07 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Anthony Albanese Scott Morrison Adam Bandt Party Labor Liberal/National Coalition Greens Leader since 30 May 2019 (2019-05-30) 24 August 2018 (2018-08-24) 4 February 2020 (2020-02-04) Leader's seat Grayndler (NSW) Cook (NSW) Melbourne (Vic.) Last election 68 seats 77 seats 1 seat Seats won 77 58 4 Seat change 9 19 3 First preference vote 4,776,030 5,233,334 1,795,985 Percentage 32.58% 35.70% 12.25% Swing 0.76 5.74 1.85 TPP 52.13% 47.87% TPP swing 3.66 3.66
Results by winning party by division for the House of Representatives. Results by first preferences and two-party preferred vote by state or territory. Results by electoral division, showing holds and gains.
Prime Minister before election Scott Morrison Liberal/National coalition Subsequent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Labor

2022 Australian federal election
Pre-election pendulum Polling National Electorate Candidates Political parties
National results
House of Representatives Senate Post-election pendulum
State and territory results
New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Northern Territory
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The 2022 Australian federal election was held on Saturday 21 May 2022 to elect members of the 47th Parliament of Australia. The incumbent Liberal/National Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, sought to win a fourth consecutive term in office but was defeated by the opposition Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese. Up for election were all 151 seats in the lower house, the House of Representatives, as well as 40 of the 76 seats in the upper house, the Senate.

The Australian Labor Party achieved a majority government for the first time since 2007, winning 77 seats in the House of Representatives. Albanese was sworn in as Prime Minister on 23 May 2022, becoming the fourth Labor leader to win government from opposition since World War II, after Gough Whitlam in 1972, Bob Hawke in 1983, and Kevin Rudd in 2007.^[1] Every state and territory except Tasmania swung to Labor on a two-party-preferred basis. The largest two-party preferred swing was in Western Australia (10.6%), where Labor won a majority of seats for the first time since 1990. The Coalition suffered severe losses, winning 58 seats, its lowest share in the House of Representatives since 1946, the first federal election contested by the Liberal Party.^[2] On election night, Morrison conceded defeat and announced he would resign as Liberal leader,^[3] and was subsequently replaced by Peter Dutton.^[4]

While the Coalition was soundly defeated, Labor did not achieve a landslide victory, as a result of electoral successes by independent candidates and the Australian Greens, with the crossbench swelling to 16 seats. Six formerly safe Liberal seats in urban and suburban areas, most held by the party and its predecessors for decades, were won by teal independents, unseating Liberal incumbents including Treasurer and Deputy Liberal Leader Josh Frydenberg. The Liberals also suffered large swings in a number of suburban seats that had long been reckoned as Liberal heartland. The Greens increased their vote share and won four seats, gaining three seats in inner-city Brisbane, the first time in the party's history it won more than one seat in the lower house. The combined major party vote for Labor and the Coalition was the lowest on record at 68.3%, while the minor party and independent vote was at its highest at 31.7%.^[5] Compared to 2019, Labor's primary vote dropped much less than the Coalition's, though Labor nevertheless recorded its lowest primary vote since either 1903 or 1934, depending on whether the Lang Labor vote is included.^[6]

In the Senate, Labor won 15 seats and retained its 26 seats overall in the chamber, while the Coalition fell to 32 seats, a four-seat drop from the previous parliament. The Greens won a seat in every state, an increase of 3 for a total of 12 seats overall, the party's largest ever representation in the Senate. One Nation returned its leader Pauline Hanson in Queensland to retain 2 seats overall, while the Jacqui Lambie Network won an additional seat in Tasmania to have 2 seats. In the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), independent candidate David Pocock won the second of two seats, the first time an ACT senator was not a Labor or Liberal party member. Lastly, a United Australia Party candidate won the sixth seat in Victoria. Labor required 13 votes from a crossbench of 18 (including 12 Greens) to ensure passage of legislation not supported by the Coalition.^[7][8]

The voter turnout of 89.82% in this election was the lowest in modern history, falling below 90% for the first time since 1922, prior to the introduction of compulsory voting in Australia.