{"id":41082,"date":"2025-05-04T22:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=41082"},"modified":"2025-05-04T22:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:14:54","slug":"a-look-at-how-australia-voted-in-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/a-look-at-how-australia-voted-in-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at how Australia voted – in charts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joel Guinto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC News (BBC.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1:20Watch: Three things to know about the Australian election result<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been re-elected as the country’s leader, becoming the first in decades to secure a second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He defeated opposition leader Peter Dutton of the centre-right Liberal-National coalition. Dutton also lost his seat in Dickson, Queensland – one he had held for 24 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a remarkable turnaround for Albanese, 62, whose popularity was at record lows at the start of the year as Australians grappled with a cost of living crisis and challenges in healthcare and housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US President Donald Trump’s global tariff policy, which did not spare Australia, was also on voters’ minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is a remarkable turnaround for 62-year-old Albanese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a look at how that played out in charts, based on an unofficial count by Australian broadcaster ABC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Albanese needed at least 76 seats in the House of Representatives to form a government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the dissolution of parliament, Labor had a razor-thin majority of 77 seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With some 70.8% of the seats already counted, the ABC puts Labor on track to finish with 85 seats – far above the 76 seats needed, giving it a comfortable majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Coalition is expected to gain 36 seats and the Independents stand at 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a reminder of what the seats in the House of Representatives looked like before tonight’s results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Current projections mean Labor has so far claimed 34.7% of first-preference votes, with the Coalition trailing behind at 31.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greens stand at 12.2% of first-preference votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/10026278\/embed?auto=1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As compared to the 2022 election, its clear Labor has increased its share of the national vote, with an increase of 2.1% so far – though that number could increase as counting goes on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/22931294\/embed?auto=1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Official vote counting won’t conclude for days but its clear that the Labor government is set to dramatically increase its majority – with swings towards them in almost every area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joel Guinto BBC News (BBC.com) 1:20Watch: Three things to know about the Australian election result Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been re-elected as the country’s leader, becoming the first in decades to secure a second term. He defeated opposition leader Peter Dutton of the centre-right Liberal-National coalition. Dutton also… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41083,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082\/revisions\/41083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}