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2025 Australian Federal Election
The 2025 Australian federal election was held on Saturday, 3 May 2025, to elect members of the 48th Parliament of Australia. All 150 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives were up for election, along with 40 of the 76 seats in the Australian Senate, Senate. The Albanese government, Albanese Labor government was elected for a second term in a landslide victory over the Opposition (Australia), opposition Coalition (Australia), Liberal–National Coalition, led by Peter Dutton. Labor secured its highest-ever seat count in the House of Representatives, with 94 seats — the most in the party's history and the most seats ever won by a political party in an Australian election (tying with the Coalition's win in the 1996 Australian federal election, 1996 election). The victory was larger than expected from the opinion polling released shortly before the election, which had predicted a substantially narrower Australian Labor Party, Labor victory or min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instant-runoff Voting
Instant-runoff voting (IRV; ranked-choice voting (RCV), preferential voting, alternative vote) is a single-winner ranked voting election system where Sequential loser method, one or more eliminations are used to simulate Runoff (election), runoff elections. When no candidate has a majority of the votes in the first round of counting, each following round eliminates the candidate with the fewest First-preference votes, first-preferences (among the remaining candidates) and transfers their votes if possible. This continues until one candidate accumulates a majority of the votes still in play. Instant-runoff voting falls under the plurality-based voting-rule family, in that under certain conditions the candidate with the least votes is eliminated, making use of secondary rankings as contingency votes. Thus it is related to the Runoff election, two-round runoff system and the exhaustive ballot. IRV could also be seen as a single-winner equivalent of Single transferable vote, sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Dutton
Peter Craig Dutton (born 18 November 1970) is an Australian former politician who served as the Leader of the Opposition (Australia), Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, leader of the Liberal Party from 2022 to 2025. He was the Australian House of Representatives, member of parliament (MP) for the Queensland seat of Division of Dickson, Dickson between the 2001 Australian federal election, 2001 and 2025 Australian federal election, 2025 elections. He previously held ministerial office in the Howard government, Howard, Abbott government, Abbott, Turnbull government, Turnbull, and Morrison government, Morrison governments, including as a Cabinet of Australia, cabinet minister from 2013 to 2022. Dutton grew up in Brisbane. He worked as a police officer in the Queensland Police for nearly a decade upon leaving school, and later ran a construction business with his father. He joined the Liberal Party as a teenager and was elected to the House o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-party-preferred Vote
In Australian politics, the two-party-preferred vote (TPP or 2PP), is the result of an opinion poll or a projection of an election result where preferences are distributed to one of the two major parties, the Labor Party and the Liberal/National Coalition e.g. "Coalition 50%, Labor 50%. The preference distribution is usually based upon the results of the last election, and the votes for other candidates are distributed between to the two parties. As such the TPP is a rough indicator of voting intent that focuses on determining the likely majority in the lower house. It is compared to previous values to predict the swing and hence the likelihood of a change in government between the major parties. The TPP assumes a two-party system of government, i.e. that after distribution of votes from less successful candidates, the two remaining candidates will be from each of the two major parties. It provides no indication of the number of representatives of other parties or independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Pitt
Keith John Pitt (born 31 August 1969) is an Australian diplomat and former politician. He is a member of the National Party and represented the Division of Hinkler in Queensland between the 2013 federal election and January 2025. He was a member of cabinet in the Morrison government as Minister for Resources and Water and also served as an assistant minister in the Turnbull government. He was an electrical engineer and businessman before entering politics. On 16 February 2025 Pitt was appointed Australian Ambassador to the Holy See. He presented his credential letters to Pope Leo XIV on 3 June 2025. Early life Pitt was born in Bundaberg, Queensland. He grew up in Woongarra and attended Kepnock State High School before taking up an electrical apprenticeship. He went on to the Queensland University of Technology, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Engineering. Pitt worked as an electrical fitter mechanic before joining Bundaberg Sugar as an electrical engineer. He l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Hinkler
The Division of Hinkler is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It includes the city of Bundaberg and its surrounds. The most recent member for Hinkler is David Batt (politician), David Batt of the National Party of Australia, National Party, who was elected in 2025. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. History The division was created in 1984 and is named after Bert Hinkler, the great pioneer Australian aviator. The seat is located in coastal Queensland, including the towns of Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Childers, Queensland, Childers, Gayndah and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Moore
The Division of Moore is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia. History The Division was named after George Fletcher Moore, the first Attorney-General of Western Australia, Advocate-General of Western Australia, and is at present a newly-reelected Australian Labor Party, Labor seat held by Tom French (Australian politician), Tom French since the 2025 Australian federal election, 2025 federal election, having changed significantly throughout its history in both geographical area and in political character. Due to significant demographic change, the seat's boundaries and constituency has evolved considerably since it was proclaimed at the 11 May 1949 redistribution. At that time, it was basically a rural electorate, which included parts of the Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wheatbelt along the Indian Ocean coast to the north and east of Perth, the state capit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Goodenough
Ian Reginald Goodenough (born 3 July 1975) is an Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from September 2013 to May 2025, representing the Western Australian seat of Moore. He was a member of the Liberal Party, when he resigned to recontest Moore as an independent following his defeat for Liberal preselection. He was a property developer, businessman and City of Wanneroo councillor prior to his election to parliament. Early life and education Goodenough was born in the Bedok suburb of Singapore in 1975.''"Goodenough arrived in Australia with his parents as a nine-year-old and became an Australian citizen in 1987."'' (16 January 2007). "Leadership role" – ''Wanneroo Times''. Retrieved from Factiva, 7 June 2014. His family emigrated to Australia in December 1984, before becoming an Australian citizen in 1987. He is of English, Portuguese, and Singaporean Chinese descent, and identifies as a member of the Eurasian community, with his branch of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preselection
Preselection is the process by which a candidate is selected, usually by a political party, to contest an election for political office. It is also referred to as candidate selection. It is a fundamental function of political parties. The preselection process may involve the party's executive or leader selecting a candidate or be some contested process. In countries that adopt Westminster-style responsible government, preselection is also the first step on the path to a position in the executive. The selected candidate is commonly referred to as the party's endorsed candidate. Deselection or disendorsement is the opposite procedure, when the political party withdraws its support from one of its elected office-holders. The party may then select a replacement candidate at the subsequent election, or it may decide (or be compelled by the electoral timetable) to forgo contesting that seat (for example, the Liberal Party of Australia after Pauline Hanson was disendorsed just before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Monash
The Division of Monash is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in the States and territories of Australia, state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, which was contested for the first time at the 2019 Australian federal election, 2019 federal election. The division is located in western Gippsland including Phillip Island, and extends for the length of Victoria's eastern Bass Strait coastline. , it covers the entire local government areas of Bass Coast Shire, Shire of Baw Baw and South Gippsland Shire, and a portion of City of Latrobe. It is the southernmost Electoral Division in continental Australia. Geography Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia are determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Broadbent
Russell Evan Broadbent (born 25 December 1950) is an Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives. He is one of the longest-serving recent members of parliament, having served for a total of over 25 years, from 1990 to 1993, from 1996 to 1998, and from 2004 to 2025. He had represented the divisions of Corinella, McMillan, and most recently, Monash. In November 2023, Broadbent stood down from the Liberal Party and its parliamentary party room and joined the crossbench in response to losing his party endorsement for Monash ahead of the 2025 federal election. He stood for re-election in the 2025 election as an independent, but failed to win the seat. Early life Broadbent was born on 25 December 1950 in Koo Wee Rup, Victoria. He was a company director and self-employed retailer before entering politics. In the 1970s he was a "jumpsuit-wearing singer of show band The Trutones, which reportedly once opened for John Farnham". Broadbent served on the Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Calare
The Division of Calare ( or ) is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. History The division was first contested at the 1906 Australian federal election, 1906 election; created to replace the abolished Division of Canobolas, and is named for the local Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal name for the Lachlan River, which runs through the western part of the division. The Aboriginal name is pronounced Kal-''ah''-ree, but the pronunciation Kul-''air'' is estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gee (politician)
Andrew Robert Gee (born 13 September 1968) is an Australian politician. He has held the Division of Calare in the House of Representatives since 2016, representing the National Party until December 2022 when he resigned to sit as an independent in opposition to the party's opposition to an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. In the 2025 election, he was re-elected to the seat as an Independent. Gee is a lawyer by profession. He served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2011 to 2016, representing the seat of Orange. He was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2016 federal election. From 2020 to 2022 he held ministerial office in the Morrison government, serving as Minister for Decentralisation and Regional Education (2020–2021), Veterans' Affairs (2021–2022) and Defence Personnel (2021–2022). Early life Gee was born on 13 September 1968 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. As a child he lived with his family for periods in Nairobi and San Francisco, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
