Yesterday saw another 800,000 Australians vote early, continuing this year’s trend of record high early voting. That’s slightly down from yesterday when about 840,000 voted, but still almost 200,000 more than the same point last year. In total four million Australians, 22% of registered voters, have now cast a pre-poll vote – at this point last election only 3.2 million had.

So far postal voting is slightly lower than the last election, but with pre-polling numbers remaining sky-high it seems increasingly likely that this election will either match or beat 2022’s record for early voting.

Wondering how pre-polling has evolved over time, and what the implications are of so many early votes? You can read more about that here.