Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are leaving nothing to chance as they fight for votes on the final day of campaigning ahead of tomorrow’s election. Source: The Australian.
More than five million Australians have already voted, with early polling booths closing at 6pm tonight.
Tomorrow, thousands of polling booths will open from 8am till 6pm local time before counting starts at 6pm.
Mr Albanese is aiming to become the first prime minister since John Howard to win back-to-back elections, while Mr Dutton wants to make history by defeating a first-term government.
Going into the election, Labor holds a notional 78 seats in Australia’s 150-seat Parliament and the Coalition a notional 57 seats.
Neither leader is giving up, with both mounting a hectic cross-country blitz of key marginal seats.
The Opposition Leader is starting today in Adelaide, where he held an upbeat supporters rally with the Liberal candidates for the key seats of Sturt and Boothby overnight.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister – who was also in Adelaide yesterday – is in Brisbane again, where Labor is desperate to improve on the five of the 30 Queensland sets it currently holds.
The polls are pointing to Anthony Albanese and Labor emerging the winner from the bruising 35-day election campaign.
Three polls released yesterday have Labor winning – but the results differ wildly.
The final AFR/Freshwater Strategy poll, released last night, shows Labor ahead of the Coalition 51.5 per cent to 48.5 per cent on a two-party preferred basis.
Labor’s primary vote sits at 33 per cent, while the Coalition’s is at 37 per cent.
The poll shows a 0.6 per cent swing towards Labor from the 2022 election, and if that swing holds across all electorates, the firm estimates Labor could jag a slim majority of 76 seats in the 150-seat parliament.
YouGov’s modelling released earlier yesterday points to Mr Albanese winning a solid majority, with 84 seats with the Coalition set to lose a net total of 11 seats to end up with just 47.
The latest Redbridge-Accent poll shows the Albanese Government has a 53 to 47 per cent two-party-preferred lead over the Coalition, putting Labor in prime position to retain government.
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Australian election 2025: Albanese, Dutton blitz final day of campaigning before Saturday’s election (By Jessica Wang, Samuel Clench and Georgie Kibel, The Australian)
