5,679,443 Australians cast their ballot at a pre-poll booth by the end of Thursday, around 100,000 more than the total last election- and we still have one more day of pre-poll to go.

Those five and a half million votes amount to over 31% of people on the electoral roll. By the end of the Thursday before polling day in 2022 only it was only 27%.

Notable, however, is the last-minute surge in pre-poll votes that we saw in 2022 hasn’t happened. Last election over 100,000 more votes were cast on the Thursday before election than the Monday; this time there’s been 5,000 fewer votes cast on Thursday than on Monday. 

While 2022 may retain the crown of the most pre-poll votes cast in a single day (922,000 on 20/05/2022, the day before the election), 2025 is galloping to the highest rate of pre-polling ever overall.

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.