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muriel_volestrangler

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6. Now calling it a landslide - Labor increased its majority
Sun May 4, 2025, 05:40 AM
May 4
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2025/results?sortBy=latest&searchQuery=&filter=all&selectedRegion=all&selectedParty=all&partyWonBy=all&partyHeldBy=all

Currently 86 Labor (up from 77), 39 Liberal/National (down from 53), with 15 seats still to announce. 76 is a majority.
Australia PM Albanese makes stunning comeback with landslide win

Official vote counting won't finish for days, but Albanese's centre-left government will dramatically increase its majority after the conservative Liberal-National coalition suffered a thumping defeat nationwide.
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Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told BBC Newshour that Dutton ran a "very Trumpian campaign", and the US president was "the mood music that had a very big influence on how people perceived" the Liberal-National opposition.
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Labor is on track to finish with 86 seats, the Coalition about 40, and the Greens Party with one or two, according to projections by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Other minor parties and independents are ahead in nine seats.

That represents an increase of nine for Labor and a significant drop in support for the Greens. However most "teal" independents have been returned in their more conservative, inner-city electorates.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9djze015xlo

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