Australian 2025 Federal Election: This is the order of the house, how things stand as nation sent to vote
Australians will head to the polls on May 3, as the major parties start a five-week campaign across the country.
This is how things stand as Australians prepare to vote.
STATE OF PLAY
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Labor: 78
including seat redistributions
Coalition: 54 seats
* Independents: 12 (including three former Coalition MPs who moved to the crossbench)
* Greens - 4
* Katter’s Australian Party - 1
* Centre Alliance - 1
CHANGES SINCE THE LAST ELECTION
* The Victorian seat of Higgins and the NSW seat of North Sydney have been abolished after a redistribution
* Western Australia has gained an electorate with the seat of Bullwinkel in Perth’s outskirts
* Nationals MP Andrew Gee left the party to become an independent, while coalition MP Russell Broadbent and Ian Goodenough also defected to the crossbench.
* The former Liberal safe seat of Aston fell to Labor at a 2023 by-election
HOW DO YOU WIN?
* 76 seats are needed in the House of Representatives for a party to form a majority government
* A net loss of just three seats will force Labor into minority and the party would need to negotiate with the crossbench to form a minority government
* The coalition would need a net gain of 19 seats to govern in its own right, or a uniform swing of about 5.3 per cent
* Polls are forecasting a close contest and a hung parliament is likely. If neither party makes it to the requisite 76 seats, whichever party has the most would enter into negotiations with the crossbench first.
* A minority parliament would be the first since 2010 and only the third since 1943. Six crossbenchers held the balance of power, with four allowing Labor to form a minority government.
WHERE WILL THE PARTIES BE BASED?
* Labor will have its campaign headquarters in Surry Hills in Sydney, the same base it used for the 2022 election,
* Since the last poll, the Coalition has moved its election headquarters interstate from Brisbane to Parramatta in Western Sydney,
