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Labor achieved a sweeping victory in the federal election, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese poised to lead a government enjoying a significantly larger majority, trailing a challenging night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.
At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.
From early on, it was clear the Coalition had no chance of getting the swings needed to pick up the key seats required to form government.
Across the country, Labor secured notable swings, from Leichhardt in Far North Queensland to Bennelong in Sydney and Bass in Tasmania.
With 55 per cent of the vote counted, Labor’s primary vote was sitting at 34.67 per cent – a swing of more than 2 per cent.
The Coalition, meanwhile, was languishing at under 31 per cent, a drop of more than 4 per cent from 2022.
However, the primary votes for both leading parties were low, as over a third of the electorate chose to support the Greens, independents, and other smaller parties.
“The domination between the blue and the red is no more,” Nine national affairs editor Andrew Probyn said.
For the Greens, though, the night was a disappointment.
The party is set to lose all three of the inner-Brisbane seats it won in 2022, and even Adam Bandt’s previously safe seat of Melbourne is too close to call with more than 50 per cent of the vote counted.
