Federal election: Voters in Labor-eyed Fowler the most decisive, as more than a quarter have already voted

A key western Sydney seat Labor has its eyes on winning back has seen the most voters already make up their mind ahead of the Federal election, with more than one in four voters already casting their ballots.

In the NSW seat of Fowler — where Labor’s Tu Le is seeking to wrest the seat back from independent Dai Le — 30,417 voters, 25.35 per cent of the seat, have cast their ballots, the highest rate in the nation.

After one week of booths opening across the country, Victoria, a key battleground for both parties, has seen the highest number of voters, with 17 per cent already voting in person or by mail, with Hawke, the Labor-held outer-Melbourne seat, with the most votes already cast.

In 17 seats across Australia, more than one in five voters have already decided, including the NSW battleground of Gilmore, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s Queensland seat of Dickson and six Victorian electorates.

Nationally, one in six Australians have already voted ahead of the frantic last week of campaigning with both Mr Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton set to criss-cross the nation in a final bid to voters.

Mr Dutton has vowed to visit 28 seats in the next six days, most held by Labor, including Hawke, Aston, Gorton and Dunkley in Victoria.

So far, 2.39 million Aussies have voted at a prepoll centre, while almost 500,000 have returned a postal vote, out of more than 2.4 million applications to vote by mail.

In WA, which again is emerging a key state for both major parties, more than a fifth of voters in two battleground seats have already had their say.

At the close of polls on Saturday, after four days of early voting, more than 20 per cent of voters in both Canning and Pearce have either visited a prepoll centre or returned

In Canning, where 25,640 locals have voted a redistribution has tightened incumbent Liberal Andrew Hastie’s margin to just 1.2 per cent, against Labor’s Jarrad Goold.

Mr Hastie, who has spent most of the last month in his electorate according to his social media posts, was accused this week of being missing from the national campaign, despite focus on key areas in his shadow defence portfolio.

On a flying visit west, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this week stopped at a Mandurah prepoll station to hand out how to votes for Mr Goold, prompting Mr Hastie to criticise Labor for failing to maintain the Peel Health Campus.

In Perth’s northern suburban seat of Pearce, 20.3 per cent of voters have made up their minds already, with Labor incumbent Tracey Roberts coming up against former State Liberal MP Jan Norberger.

The seat, which takes in most of Perth’s northern coastal fringe suburbs, has been hit hard by the cost of living crisis, with more than half of all homes mortgaged in the area.

While the Liberals believe the seat has tightened and Mr Norberger is in with a chance, Labor insiders say the seat is likely to stay red on election night.

On Saturday, former premier Mark McGowan was pictured joining Mrs Roberts at a shopping centre walk through in his first federal campaign appearance.

In the once-blue ribbon seat of Curtin — where Liberal Tom White is seeking to claim the seat from teal independent Kate Chaney — voters are less likely to have made up their mind, with just 13 per cent heading to the polls already.