Newly elected prime minister Anthony Albanese says his team will work every day to bring Australians together, saying he will lead a government "worthy of the people of Australia".
Look back at how the vote count unfolded here in our blog.
Key events
- Dave Sharma loses his seat in Wentworth
- Treasurer Josh Frydenberg loses his seat
- Albanese says result is 'incredible honour'
- Morrison says he will resign as leader of Liberal Party
- Scott Morrison calls Anthony Albanese to concede
- Frydenberg says winning Kooyong 'difficult' but 'possible'
- Labor gains WA seats of Swan, Pearce and Hasluck
- Labor projected to win federal election, Anthony Albanese to be next Prime Minister
- Independent Zoe Daniel defeats Liberal Tim Wilson in Goldstein
- Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman to lose North Sydney
- Independent Sophie Scamps projected to defeat Liberal Jason Falinski in Mackellar
- ABC projects Coalition unable to form majority
- Antony Green calls Rankin for Jim Chalmers
- Antony Green has called Melbourne for Adam Bandt
- Antony Green says it could be 'two or three weeks' to work out who forms government
- Antony Green calls Warringah for Zali Steggall
- The ABC is also running an election blog in Chinese
- Barnaby Joyce 'thinks the Nats will go well'
- ABC election special is live
- 'We are going to see, I think, this testing of the landscape of Australian politics tonight'
- The ABC Federal Election results page is live
- What does a hung parliament mean? And how could it happen this election?
- ABC election broadcast starts from 6pm AEST
- Labor wins injuction to remove fake signs in Higgins electorate
- More than 50 per cent of eligible voters took an early voting option
- Liberals make complaint over Monique Ryan corflute in Chinese
- AEC: Phone voting closes at 6:00pm local time
- Everything you need to know about how to vote on election day
- Labor to seek injunction to have election signs removed
- Where do the major parties stand on policy issues?
- 76 regional polling places will open after staff shortage fears
Live updates
By Caitlyn Davey
Updates on polls - May 22
This blog is closed but you can get more updates for Sunday, May 22, and see how the counts are unfolding on Sunday's blog.
By Jessica Riga
We're going to wrap up our live blog here
Thank you so much for your company throughout this huge day!
You can catch up on alll our election coverage here our Australia Votes website.
We'll be back tomorrow morning to bring you all the latest news and reactions from the federal election results as they continue to roll in.
Until then, from all of us bloggers, have a good rest of your night!
By Georgia Hitch
Here's where things are at at the end of Saturday night
After a mammoth evening, here are the key takeaways:
- Anthony Albanese will be our next prime minister, but it's not clear yet if Labor will form a majority government or minority government and there'll be a hung parliament
- Scott Morrison will step down as the leader of the Liberal Party
- A huge groundswell in support for the so-called 'teal independents' saw a number of previously safe Liberal seats upturned
- Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has lost his seat to Dr Monique Ryan, a teal independent
- There were big swings to the Greens in Brisbane, with at least one extra seat and potentially two more
- Labor frontbencher Terri Butler has lost her seat and Kristina Keneally failed to win after standing in the seat of Fowler
- The last few key seats remain unclear, with counting to resume on Sunday morning, postal votes will also start to be counted tomorrow
- Counting in the Senate is still underway
By Nicholas McElroy
By Nicholas McElroy
By Jessica Riga
In pictures: Anthony Albanese's victory speech
By Jessica Riga
An update from Labor HQ
Here's political reporter Matthew Doran, who is in Labor HQ tonight.
"Do we sleep, or do we drink? I say drink!"
That was the declaration from one young Labor supporter, shortly after Anthony Albanese declared Australia was under new management.
'Working Class Man' by Cold Chisel started blaring, as the relief, laughter and joy spread across the room at the Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL.
Three years ago, there were similar comments from the Labor faithful about the choice between drinking and sleeping.
But the desire to neck a few beers was borne of mourning, rather than celebration.
In May 2019, it was about an hour or two into the vote count when Labor's rank and file started to see the writing on the wall.
They'd lost the unlosable election. Tears ran down faces, as people ran for the doors.
The conference room near Essendon Airport was empty within minutes of Bill Shorten conceding the election and quitting as leader.
Fast forward three years and, obviously, it was a different tone.
The bloke from the public housing flat in Camperdown had just become Prime Minister — even though his command of the House with a majority is still to be determined.
The party faithful couldn't give a stuff whether they reach 76 seats tonight.
They just want to bask in the electoral glory.
Anthony Albanese said his late mother was watching down on him tonight, and has said during the campaign he hoped she'd be proud.
There's a few hundred other people here this evening who share that pride.
By Nicholas McElroy
The UK Prime Minister congratulates Anthony Albanese
Boris Johnson:
"Congratulations on your election as Prime Minister of Australia. I look forward to working with you as we reap the rewards of our comprehensive Free Trade Agreement, the AUKUS partnership and the unmatched closeness between the British and Australian people."
By Georgia Hitch
Dave Sharma loses his seat in Wentworth
Wentworth, the blue ribbon Liberal seat in Sydney, will also go to a so-called teal independent.
Antony Green has called that Dave Sharma has lost his seat to independent Allegra Spender.
With more than half the vote counted, the ABC projects Mr Sharma’s primary vote will fall below 40 per cent and he has suffered a substantial swing against him.
It means the former ambassador will leave parliament after just one term.
Ms Spender has worked in the UK Treasury as a policy analyst, and most recently as Managing Director at Carla Zampatti Pty Ltd, her family's fashion label.
By Georgia Hitch
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg loses his seat
Antony Green says there's enough votes in now to call Kooyong for Dr Monique Ryan, meaning Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will officially lose his seat.
With more than half the vote counted, the ABC projects Mr Frydenberg’s vote has fallen by more than 6 per cent, and he will be defeated on preferences.
Dr Ryan is one of a group of teal independents challenging inner-city Liberal MPs at this election.
She has been director of the neurology department at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne
Mr Frydenberg is a leader of the moderate wing of the Liberal Party, and was widely regarded as a potential future leader of the party.
By Georgia Hitch
Counting over for tonight on the east coast
We missed it before because Anthony Albanese was speaking but the counting has stopped in the eastern states for tonight, it stops at midnight local time around the country.
It'll resume tomorrow, including postal votes.
By Jessica Riga
Labor retains Lilley in Queensland
Labor MP Anika Wells has retained the seat of Lilley.
The ALP was helped in the fight for the ultra-marginal electorate by candidate problems within the LNP.
She says the decisive result was partially a reflection of her time in parliament, but also a rejection of the Prime Minister.
“As a first term MP you spend every day and every night wondering if you are doing enough for your people, if you’re working hard enough and if they think you are doing enough for them," she said.
"When you get a result tonight like this one, it’s just really heartening to think that you went OK.”
Ms Wells also pointed to the handling of the Omicron wave and the Brisbane floods as an influence on the vote in Lilley.
“I think if you look overall across Queensland, the overwhelming sentiment is a rejection of the Prime Minister," she said.
“Where that protest vote is going is patchy."
“My impression based on standing in pre-poll in the rain for 11 days is that Green vote really went up in the last 72 hours.”
Reporting by Emilie Gramenz
By Georgia Hitch
Which politicians lost their seat this election?
Coalition
Out:
- Josh Frydenberg
- Ken Wyatt
- Ben Morton
- Dave Sharma
- Jason Falinski
- Trent Zimmerman
- Lucy Wicks
- Fiona Martin
- Katie Allen
- Tim Wilson
- Gladys Liu
- Julian Simmonds
In doubt:
- Celia Hammond
- Trevor Evans
- Pat Conaghan (Nationals)
- Andrew Constance
- Michael Sukkar
- Ian Goodenough
- James Stevens
Labor
Out:
- Kristina Keneally
- Terri Butler
In doubt:
- Brian Mitchell
By Jessica Riga
Here's an update from the seat of Nicholls
It's been a long night in the northern Victorian electorate of Nicholls – previously the safest coalition seat in the state.
The Nationals have retained the seat, despite a tight race with Independent candidate Rob Priestly.
But at the party for Nationals candidate Sam Birrell, the mood was bittersweet.
His independent rival has hacked a significant chunk off the Nationals' vast 20 per cent margin, threatening the coalition's comfortable reign.
And while Mr Birrell's party has retained the seat, it won't be under a Coalition government.
He admitted the seat's stark swing against the Nationals tonight showed his party "needs to listen to the electorate very carefully".
"Having said that, I think all governments needed to make very difficult decisions during the pandemic," he said.
"The electorate is very annoyed and upset and independents offer a bet each way in that you can have a political representative who's not associated with the really difficult decisions either the Coalition or Labor might have to make.
"I don't think it's a good trend."
Meanwhile in a speech to supporters, Mr Priestly said while he may not have claimed victory tonight, the seat is no longer a coalition stronghold.
"We've taken Nicholls from being one of the safest seats in the country, never discussed, never part of the national agenda, to being at the centre of the political discussion," he said.
"It may not have been this one, but it will be the next one or the one after for sure.
"Nicholls is going to be completely contestable every time."
Reporting by Charmayne Allison
By Georgia Hitch
Frydenberg challenger thanks her supporters
Josh Frydenberg’s challenger in Kooyong, Dr Monique Ryan, a teal independent, has addressed her supporters to say thank you.
"Kooyong is never going to be quite the same again,” she said to the jubilant room, who clapped and cheered as she spoke.
"This is not a victory speech - it is just a thank you to all of you ... We started because we wanted action on climate change and we felt that it was the most important challenge of our time.
"It bloody well is. Our government was not listening to us, so, we have changed the government ... And that is the power of the people.
“Everything that we have done, we have done with love. That's a strange word to be using in a political campaign, but that, there's been love. Most of us have never done anything like this before. I think that all of us will remember this as one of the most memorable experiences of our lives.
"We started with a very, very uneven playing field. We're evening it up."
By political reporter Kathleen Calderwood.
By Georgia Hitch
Thanks as well to Albanese's family
"To my partner, Jodie. Thank you for coming in to my life and for sharing this journey. And to my proudest achievement, my son, Nathan. Thank you, mate, for your love and support. Your mother, who's here tonight, Carmel, we are both so proud of the caring, wonderful, smart young man you have become.
"To my mum. Who's beaming down on us. Thank you. And I hope there are families in public housing watching this tonight. Because I want every parent to be able to tell their child no matter where you live or where you come from, in Australia the doors of opportunity are open to us all.
"And like every other Labor government, we'll just widen that door a bit more. Friends, we have made history tonight. And tomorrow, together, we begin the work of building a better future. A better future for all Australians. Thank you very much."
By Nicholas McElroy
Albanese thanks those who backed him throughout his career and the people of Grayndler
Mr Albanese:
"I said I've been underestimated my whole life during the campaign. Now while all that is true, I have also been lifted up by others who saw something in me. And who encouraged me in life on this journey.
"And I pledged to the Australian people here tonight, I am here not to occupy the space, but to make a positive difference each and every day.
"And to the amazing diverse people of Grayndler. All politics is local. And in 1996, there were various people who wrote off the chances of Labor holding on to that seat. This is my 10th election. And I want to say thank you for placing your faith in me. It is an absolute honour to be your voice in our national parliament."
By Georgia Hitch
Albanese moves on to congratulations for the Labor team
"My fellow Australians, no-one gets here by themselves. And I wouldn't be standing here tonight without the support, hard work and belief of so many people. To my parliamentary team, including my Deputy, Richard Marles, and my Senate leader, Penny Wong. My terrific economic team led by Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher," he said.
"On Monday morning, arrangements are in place to have these people sworn in as members of my team. To enable Penny and I to attend the important Quad leaders' meeting in Tokyo with President Biden, Prime Minister Kishida and Prime Minister Modi. And I want the leaders of the economic team to start work on Monday morning as well. I wanted to thank my shadow ministry and my amazing caucus members, including the people who are here tonight at this joint function. I want to thank all of our Labor candidates.
"I want to thank all those who have worked so hard for this victory. We stand on your shoulders. Most rank-and-file members of the Labor Party will never ask for anything. They knock on doors, they make calls, they work so hard. They hand out how-to-votes. They push the cause of Labor at the local P&C, the local kid's footy, the local netball, when they're shopping in the supermarket, when they talk to their neighbours. I thank each and every one of the true believers of the Australian Labor Party.
"And I proudly thank the members of the mighty trade union movement.
"I do want to thank my campaign director, our amazing national secretary, Paul Erickson, and his team. My staff are led by Tim Gartrell, my first campaign director back in 1996. And my electorate office team, who haven't seen that much of me, who look after this electorate led by Helen Rogers.
"Thank you very much. But to all those - and I'm not going to name them because there's too many - there's a lot of people who believed in me and backed me over many decades in this great movement to be where I am today."
By Jessica Riga
'We can have an even better future if we seize the opportunities in front of us', Anthony Albanese says
"We are the greatest country on earth. But we can have an even better future if we seize the opportunities that are right there in front of us. The opportunity to shape change, rather than be shaped by it. And we can shape change more effectively if we seek to unite people on that journey of change.
"Together we can end the climate wars. Together we can take advantage of the opportunity for Australia to be a renewable energy superpower. Together we can work in common interests with business and unions to drive productivity, lift wages and profits. I want an economy that works for people, not the other way around.
"Together we can as a country say that all of us, if the Fair Work Commission don't cut the wage of minimum aged workers, we can say that we welcome that absolutely… Together we can strengthen universal healthcare through Medicare.
"Together, we can protect universal superannuation. And we can write universal childcare into that proud tradition. Together we can fix the crisis in aged care. Together we can make equal opportunity for women a national economic and social priority. Together we can and will ... establish a national anti-corruption commission.
"And together we can embrace the Uluru Statement from the Heart. We can answer its patient, gracious call for a voice enshrined in our constitution. Because all of us ought to be proud that amongst our great multicultural society we count the oldest living continuous culture in the world. And ... I acknowledge Australia's next Indigenous Affairs Minister, Linda Burney, who is here."
