There is about 15 minutes of open polls left on this election day.
Remember everyone of your votes count and that your preferences matter. You can not waste your vote!
Sat 3 May
Australia Institute Live: Election 2025 results. As it happened.
This blog, much like the 2025 election, is now closed.
Key posts
The Day's News
Bingo card!
Feel free to use this to add to your fun tonight. You can either have a drink every time one of these is mentioned (drink responsibly) or cross them off for a BINGO!
Bonus round:
It’s too early for these booths to count
Don’t forget postal votes are still to come in
Candidate on panel loses seat
Candidate on panel asked about next leader
TV host responds to MP defending bad result “valiant effort”
Tough night for XX speech writer
Leadership audition
I’m hearing….
“Too early to concede that seat yet, historically they have done well on the postals”
It won’t be tonight but also keep an eye on the senate – the One Nation vote is very interesting – and the Coalition could see themselves losing influence to PHON
Seats to watch
Wannon
Bradfield
Calare
Cowper
Monash
Brisbane
Ryan
Griffith
Leichardt
Bonner
Sturt
Gilmore
Paterson
Hunter
McEwen
Wills
Macnamara
All teal seats – especially Kooyong, Curtin and Goldstein
Braddon, Franklin, Bass and Lyons (all of Tasmania really)
Flinders
AAP wrote up some of the last minute shenanigans on the polls:
Labor sent out text messages to voters during polling day about the Greens’ decision to not preference Labor in the ultra-marginal Victorian seat of Deakin, held by the Liberals.
“Preferences are critical in keeping Dutton out and this decision by Adam Bandt will put in jeopardy Labor forming government,” the text message reads.
In the nation’s capital, Canberrans took advantage of the city’s democratic heritage by voting at Old Parliament House.
In Victoria, Kooyong MP Monique Ryan was being stopped by a journalist when a bird in a tree pooed on her.
The Liberals are desperate to wrest the seat back from the teal independent, which was previously held by former treasurer Josh Frydenberg
A reminder that preferences are decided by you, not the how to vote cards. That is just a guide
Hello and welcome!
Hello and welcome to Australia Votes 2025!
We will cover all the vote as the night goes on – we have a live show on Youtube and Facebook which you can tune into ahead as you prepare for your election night party – and the live stream will be going until 7.30ish (when we all know you will be turning over to the ABC to see Antony’s swan song)
So you have me, Amy Remeikis and the Australia Institute team bringing you all the live coverage of the votes. We will have expert opinion, a bit of goss, a bit of snark and some insights from different seats, campaigns and what comes next.
Thanks so much for joining us – I will be having a drink as we make our way through this, so hope you will be having what brings you joy as well.
Ready?
Let’s get into it.
(Oh and THRILLED to be able to use some of the photojournalism from Photographer-at-Large at The New Daily, Mike Bowers. Hey Mikey! Here is some of his work from earlier in the day at Bondi)
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